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Fedora @ GNUnify
January 25th, 2007
This Saturday/Sunday, I’ll be off to GNUnify’07 for a presentation on Fedora, titled - Internationalization on Fedora - What & How.
Okay, just found out, I have the first presentation slot in the morning! phew! That means getting up again at around 6… whoa!
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Sometimes, l10n bugs are not always l10n bugs!
January 5th, 2007
On wednesday, I reopened the bug 206439 when Aman pointed the following to us…
Okay, this seemed a translation bug. Down to the debugging & I found that Comment 12 was where the bug coming from. Giving it a round of translation was the first thing on my mind… which was not very well received by the code. The code was parsing the translation & separating it for day names on the basis of length… not a good thing.
Ankit then suggested to keep the day names in separate strings, so they can be separately be translated. This would bring sanity to both the code & the translations. But however, this induced another problem… Since the day names were being used as “MTWTFSS” (initials!), marking Saturday’s S and Sunday’s S separately was another issue. Gettext has a rule to mark duplicate strings as a single translatable string. Carlos at #i18n (irc.gnome.org) suggested to use contexts in strings which are to be marked for translation… which led to this patch.
…now Evo rests in peace… atleast for two days of this weekend - during which I plan to hack m17n-db for bug 198325 to move my Mapper from a pre-pre-alpha+buggy version to a alpha version atleast!
It looks like this in its current state…
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Just ordered
January 3rd, 2007
The Official GNOME 2 Developer’s Guide
After reading a few pages from Ritesh’s book, I was simply mesmerized! If offers just the details you need to understand the what & how of GTK+ and GLib libraries.
The saying goes correct… Good books are worth all the investment.
Order your own copy for INR 495 (~= USD 10) with free shipping anywhere in India from FirstAndSecond
…waiting for the delivery… which is promised in 3 days!
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Fedora Core rocks!
September 6th, 2006
I’ve been long using FC on my system, not to mentioned installed it about a hundred times… but I never came across this option (actually I never knew it untill I saw Aman using it).
When at the boot promt (during the installation), use this
linux vnc
With *vnc* as an arg, the installation will drop you to a shell, asking you to do a vncviewer to the machine on which installation is going on.
Chk this out…
Taking screenshots of installation process is now as easy as “PrntScrn” 
PS: I’m sure that other distro’s might also have this feature…
All in all… Tux Rox!
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Red Hat & Soccer
June 26th, 2006
Yesterday, the much awaited soccer tournament started with we playing with L&T. Though we lost 3-Nil but Pai (our goalkeeper) & our defenders did a fine job. While Amit & Salil lead nicely from the front. Lots of improvements will be required to take on the next team & i hope i’ll also step in the field the next time.
Red Hat Soccer Team - Image from Rangan’s Gallery
As of now, my contribution to this team was the RH poster & lots of hooting 
…the contribution is set to increase the next time!
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