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Everybody rants...
i WANT to go on a vacation...
end of rant
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Happens.. but I want to focus ahead
Much has been happening over the past few days that distressed quite a few of us. The West Bengal government announced a Bengali Linux Distro called Baishakhi Linux. Thats the news. The story behind news has already been blogged by Sankarshan[1][2] and Sayamindu[1][2]. As of now, the source code is still not available. As I had twittered already.. ( Read more... ) -
Of many things and one
Long time since this page saw some activity. *sigh*. This could have been a post of many things, like:
- How stress induced fatigue (my dad's words not mine) caused me to sleep for nearly 36 hours at a stretch
- The updates to the Gnome Mango system done by Olav Vitters and account system documentation done by Christian Rose has made things so easy ( Read more... )
- How stress induced fatigue (my dad's words not mine) caused me to sleep for nearly 36 hours at a stretch
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Gnome Mango - Some answers
I had made a post last week about the problems that quite a few of us were facing with Mango. Finally, after a lot of discussion on the gnome-i18n Mailing list, the missing bits of information came forth from Olav.
To summarize it:
For any language, not listed in the New Account Request interface on Mango, please send a mail to accounts at gnome dot ( Read more... ) -
Bitter Mango
Dear Lazyweb,
I have been stuck with a problem for quite sometime now. The new account system for getting Gnome SVN accounts - Mango - behaves a bit oddly at times. The following are the problems that I have seen happening in the past:
#1: There was no option to request an account as a Translator. It got fixed eventually.
#2: A voucher is ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
(Since, I would be writing a bit more in response to the comments on my earlier post, I decided to make it into another post.)
Thanks Chris for dropping by. I hope to make it clear that I do not intend to point fingers at individuals, but rather the overall scheme of things where more often than not, the results take a backseat - much like red- ( Read more... ) -
Motivation is not always the keyword
A recent article published in a leading daily here in India touched quite a few raw nerves. Besides talking about the presence of the Gujarati and Punjabi localized versions of Firefox in its latest version, the article somewhat prominently highlights the absence of quite a few other languages due to "a lack of motivation". Needless to say, there ( Read more... )
