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Remember that little script I wrote to pull the latest comic from xkcd? Well, I actually got around to fixing up the readability and removing the horrible one liner.
Firstly, I moved from xml.dom.minidom to Mark Pilgrim’s (whose book Dive Into Python taught me the language) Universal Feed Parser and broke the parsing of the script up into a few more lines. It now looks much nicer, and will be considerably easier to maintain.
Also, I added an optional command line argument that specifies where to save the picture, defaulting to ./xkcd-today.png.
I won’t bother posting it inline, but you can find it at http://joshh.co.uk/stuff/xkcdrss.py.
I am attending GUADEC this year, thanks to the sponsorship by the GNOME Foundation!
I am organising the GNOME Localisation BoF, which takes place on Friday, 10th July, 2009, at 17:00. I am also having a session on the GNOME translator command line tool gnome-i18n-manage-vcs on the same day at 15:00.
A few months ago, there was a program in Greece, along the lines of the Google Summer of Code, to help Greek developers in FLOSS projects. The program was organised by EELLAK, a Greek non-profit, composed of 25 institutions of the tertiary education and research centres. As it took place during the spring, it was nicknamed Greek Spring of Code (gsoc).
Apart from developing software, the program had a localisation angle, and we applied for the localisation of GNOME 2.26 to the Greek language. In practice, this meant that we had to lift the documentation translations from 32% to 100%, complete the remaining UI translations.
Many contributors helped in this effort; Jennie Petoumenou (also co-organiser in the effort), Marios Zindilis, Fotis Tsamis, Kostas Papadimas, Nikos Charonitakis, Sterios Prosiniklis, Giannis Katsampiris, Michalis Kotsarinis, Vasilis Kontogiannis and Socratis Vavilis.The overall task was difficult, and our team did an amazing task to complete the translations on time. Thank you all, and especially Jennie and Marios for undertaking huge chunks of the translation effort for this release.
Here are the GNOME EL 2.26 deliverables in HTML, PDF.
The fourth Greek FOSS (ELLAK) conference took place in Athens on the 19-20th June 2009.
We had our annual localisation meetup!
I organised a workshop on git, with a focus on how to use when starting into software development. There was emphasis on using github.com to host and manage the development. In addition, services such as github.com allow to cooperate during the development, making programming a more social and interesting task.
Finally, there was a presentation of the Greek GNOME team efforts for the last year.
oggzrip -c theora input.ogv > output.ogv
oggzrip -c vorbis input.ogv > output.ogg
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 was released yesterday. It isn’t (at the time of writing this) available for install through the repos on Ubuntu Jaunty. I guess it will be backported at some stage but should you want to play about with it, here is how I did it so as not to (hopefully) break anything else… [Note: you should probably back up your profile directory before going any further. Something like this should do it: cp -a ~/.mozilla ~/firefox-3.0-backup]
I downloaded the Linux tarball and unpacked it. I moved this directory (called firefox) to my local bin dir:
mv firefox ~/bin/firefox-3.5
This command assumes you are in the same directory as the tarball you just extracted and have a local bin directory. If not just do mkdir ~/bin first.
Then I started the current Firefox Profile Manager and created a new profile just for 3.5 to test (I didn’t want any conflicts or updates to my existing firefox 3 add-ons). To check that you are using the right path for the existing installed Firefox you can do a command like which -a firefox which will give you the full path to any firefox executables on your system and in your path.:
/usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager
Follow the Profile Manager dialogues to create a new profile – I called mine 3.5 amazingly. Exit the profile manager (don’t start firefox or else you’ll end up with the existing firefox also using the 3.5 profile).
Now you can run the 3.5 version of Firefox by typing the following command:
~/bin/firefox-3.5/firefox -no-remote -P 3.5
The -no-remote switch ensures that we start a clean instance of FF from these commands. If you already have an instance of FF running and you do not use this switch, you’ll get another window tied to the same, already running, firefox process. This also affects trying to start firefox remotely over X as I discovered quite some time ago.
I have since created a launcher on the top panel to start FF3.5.
It seems to work OK and feels incredibly fast at loading pages, but trying to run anything that needs flash causes it to die horribly.
So although this isn’t perfect, it was a reasonably safe way to test and just try it out. YMMV of course and I really think we’d all probably be better just waiting for one of the MOTU “Gods” to deliver a 3.5 backport for Jaunty. 
I’ve just surprised myself with the amount of email addresses i currently have, i think i need to consolidate them and have one, currently i have
hotmail
gmail
yahoo
own hosted email [about 4 here]
Do i really need this many email addresses 
I think it’s time to close accounts
It’s a shame apps i use are linked to these, flickr for instance is linked to my yahoo account….picasa is linked to my gmail, is it time to go totally self hosted?
I’ve probably mentioned this sometime in the past so apologies if i’m repeating myself.
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I’ve just installed the ‘email on three’ application onto my Nokia e71. It seems to be a rebranded version of SEVEN; a push email solution for various mobile devices including Symbian based mobile phones.
So far it seems to be pretty good, and although there are a few reports on the ‘tinterweb indicating poor battery life, later comments suggest that this has got better with recent updates to the software.
All of which leads me to the question of whether or not ‘email on three’ uses SMS messages to trigger email synchronisation or whether it keeps an data connection open back to three’s NOC?
Anyone happen to know?
Tutorials Day rocked and logs are now available for those who missed it. Talks covered Ruby, Amarok Scripting, Artwork, Packaging and Kubuntu Karmic.
I’m looking forward to this weekend more than most, after I managed to bag tickets for the Hop Farm Festival for an ultimate bargain!
SATURDAY: THE FRATELLIS, PIGEON DETECTIVES, THE VIEW, ASH, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE, NOAH AND THE WHALE, HOWLING BELLS, ETIENNE DE CRECY LIVE, AJAX, DR. LEKTROLUV, D.I.M, DADA LIFE, DATAROCK, WHITEY (DJ SET), JAPE, FC20, THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND, WHITE DENIM, BELL X 1, THE JOY FORMIDABLE, THE TWILIGHT SAD, LET’S WRESTLE, THE GOOD THE BAD.
SUNDAY: PAUL WELLER, EDITORS, DOVES, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, THE TWANG, MYSTERY JETS, LADYHAWKE, THE RIFLES, THAT PETROL EMOTION, 2MANYDJS, SCRATCH PERVERTS, KISSY SELL OUT, ALEX GOPHER, METRONOMY, HEARTBREAK, BURN THE NEGATIVE, RARELY SEEN ABOVE GROUND, BRITISH SEA POWER, THE RUMBLE STRIPS, 65 DAYS OF STATIC, DANANANANAYKROYD, FIGHT LIKE APES, THE CHAPMAN FAMILY, SERGEANT, EIGHT LEGS.
Awesome line-up. Got everything required for the camping weekend away. It’s going to be lovely.
Which bands do you recommend I try and see? If you’re going to be there, say hi!
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I’ve decided that next year I’m going to attend at least one major linux show, after seeing numerous reports from SELF, LinuxTag, various FUDcons, it’s about time i went to one. Now i’m in the UK so where to go? Europe? the US? who knows, i’ve still got plenty of time to think about it
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If you lie a rope around the earth’s equator, then put another rope, exactly one meter higher than the first rope exactly around equator too, then how much longer is the second rope than the first rope?
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I want the answer to three decimal places 
Here’s the answer. (courtesy of Richard Querin)
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