March 2006 archive

Mar 11 2006

“Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper”

Mark Shuttleworth sent an e-mail titled Proposal for additional QA and localisation time on Dapper to request a six-week delay for the release of the next version of Ubuntu Linux. meeting on Tuesday 14th March – once at 09:00 UTC (for the Aussies and Asian communities) and then again at 18:00 UTC (for Europe and …

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Mar 11 2006

Greek Polytonic HOWTO

Dimitri Marinakis has written a HOWTO on Hellenic (Greek) Polytonic in free and open-source software, licensed by the GNU Free Documentation License. It gives a background in Ancient Greek and describes how to use Greek Polytonic (read and write) in your Linux system. Simossimos.info

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Mar 10 2006

What’s the black dot?

The new SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop is quite exciting and we wait for it with anticipation. In each of the screenshots in the above page, you will be able to notice a strange black dot. Why does this happen? Well, the person that did the screenshots was probably a new user in the GIMP. By …

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Mar 09 2006

Taxis and security

It is quite encouraging that citizens taxed in Greece are able to file their tax reports through the Web, at the Taxis Website. Sadly, it has been reported that standard-compliant Web browsers are not supported by the Taxis Website. If you are affected, do complain about it! If you file taxes and you are affected, …

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Mar 09 2006

Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία

When you choose a font in the Font Preferences, you can find a sample text that displays all the letters of the current system language. In this way, you are able to to have a good understanding of how a font looks like. Such phrases are called Pangrams, meaning contains all the letters. The most …

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Mar 06 2006

Three new glyphs to be added in Unicode 5.0.0

Are there any examples on the usage of these glyphs? See http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.0.0/charts/CodeCharts-5.0.0d1.pdf Simos Xenitellisblog.simos.info/

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