Skip to content

Monthly Archives: March 2008

More of a good thing?

Friday, March 28, 2008

There is one particular aspect of Microsoft’s document format going through ISO process that I had a hard time to find a counter-argument against: “Well it is better to have multiple open formats, isn’t it?”. Last night when I was presenting in a Document Freedom Day event, I finally got one. When multiple standards exist [...]

Filed in Debian-planet, Ubuntu.lv-planet, floss, software | | Comments (1)

Blog-split

Friday, March 21, 2008

Occasionally I post (or could post) things that are not fit for Debian Planet (non-English) or Ubuntu.lv Planet (unrelated to Latvian or Debian/Ubuntu matters), so I finally budged and switch the planet feeds to their own categories so that such things can be managed on a per-post basis.
Anyone know a Wordpress plugin that would allow [...]

Filed in Debian-planet, Ubuntu.lv-planet, blog, debian, latvian | | Comments (0)

Flu sucks

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

If you tried contacting me in the last few days, I was deeply offline due to high fever. Not fully recovered yet. Flu be damned!

Filed in Uncategorized | | Comments (0)

Standard software not in standard?

Sunday, March 9, 2008

I was consulting a small company with a couple Debian servers the other day and I found that they did not have some packages that I expected to be there. Now thinking about it on every server that I install or take over the first thing I do is install a bunch of packages, such [...]

Filed in debian, software | | Comments (6)

Dealing with common mistranslations

Friday, March 7, 2008

In the Latvian l10n community we often deal with the problem of mistranslation of common words such as “file”, “preferences” and “advanced”. There are several words that fit each of those and over the years preferences in the community have shifted back and forth.
I just came up with an idea of making a script that [...]

Filed in debian, i18n, idea | | Comments (3)

Frankfurt

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

I have decided to do something special for my 25th birthday this year so I have made plans to visit Frankfurt from 23rd to 25th of March with my girlfriend. Her birthday is just a day before mine.
I have read the Wikitravel article and am looking forward to seeing the city. Is there anything [...]

Filed in debian, germany, travel | | Comments (3)