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first swig patch!

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Here. :-)

I have an other one as well, but that's not yet commited (and it may be even wrong).


google translate fun

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I never imagined that google translate could be useful for any situation when English is not the source language (I use it when English is the target language when I find some Chinese or Japanese blog posts), but now I see where it can be useful.

Yesterday I just wanted to link a timeline to someone who does not speak English at all, and google translate did its jobs - at least when the user knew what does she search for, she was able to find the date in the timeline. :)


rss2email breakage

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I just noticed that I don't have any new mails in my rss notification folder - it turns out that it's because my rss2email fork is broken. Yeah, I remember, I just created a small patch, sent it upstream, then stopped updating rss2email till I get a response from the maintainer. No response so far but now I rebased it, as it seems the latest upstream release works fine with python-2.6.

Dokuwiki

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It has been proposed on the list that we switch from medawiki to dokuwiki.

Pros: an active developer would maintain it, dokuwiki is maybe a bit less bloated

Cons: obscure syntax, for example the title '=' syntax (= is big, == is smaller) is the opposite of what we use in asciidoc.

So far dokuwiki is packaged in current, so we'll see...


Frugalware homepage activity stats

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That's interesting. My feeling was that recently the popularity of Frugalware was not increasing but staging, but then I had a look at the apache logs and checked the number of hits one days after the release of 0.9 and 1.0:

$ grep -c '10/Sep/2008' www.frugalware.org-access_log
88223
$ grep -c '23/Mar/2009' www.frugalware.org-access_log
216817

So it seems we recently get way much more hits than previously. Interesting.


Git error/warning cleanup is in

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See here. All 9 patches, yay. :)

kqemu update

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Though Paul already stated on qemu-devel that kqemu is completely unmainainted, our kqemu pkg stopped working after we updated to qemu-0.10. And funny enough, there is a new version on nongnu.org which works with the new version. So it's now updated, even if I did not really expect a new release of it ever... ;-)

parseopt-ls-files is in

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Finally my parseopt patch in git-ls-files got merged. It becomes clear how I have less and less time for git, it took about a month. ;-)

An other interesting project (sadly in Perl) to try out (twitter via irc) is here.


Virtualbox port redirect

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It's actually qemu that calls these port redirects, but I don't know the proper generic name. So what I was needed is that a service runs inside virtualbox and I want to have it on the host machine as well. For now I just wanted the same port, but for ssh obviously I want an other one, since ssh is probably already running on the host machine. ;-)

A good howto is available here. And here is an other one, in case later one of them would be 404. :-P


Git website howto

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There was a howto about how to host website with git - the basic problem is that the working dir is not updated automatically on push. This howto gives a step-by-step solution for this problem. Of course I know the solution (and it's problems) for a long time, but it's always nice when someone with a good writing taste puts it out as a documentation.

To make the long story short, I noticed a correctness with the howto and mailed the author, then completely forgot about it. Now someone linked it on #git, and I was wondering if this is the same webpage howto I read or something different. This ended up with noticing my name on the page, giving me a thank for noticing. ;-)

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