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GUADEC Day #1

I am writing this in the morning of the second day (posted at the end of the second day). Just had breakfast and there is a bit of time before making it to the conference venue. Yesterday Sunday, was the first of the two days of warm-up for the GUADEC conference. At 11am the registration …

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Say No to OOXML

Click on the image above to visit the petition page. I copy here the terms of the petition to say no on the standardisation of MSOOXML at ISO. I ask the national members of ISO to vote “NO” in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons: There …

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My Akismet spam count in WordPress

Here is the Akismet spam count of my WordPress blog, All spam deleted. Caught Spam Akismet has caught 316,645 spam for you since you first installed it. You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day. 🙂 WordPress Documentation — Support Forums 2.1 — 0.10 seconds Simossimos.info

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Δικτυακός τόπος el.open-tran.eu (μεταφραστική μνήμη ελεύθερου λογισμικού)

Στο δικτυακό τόπο http://el.open-tran.eu/ μπορεί κάποιος να κάνει αναζήτηση για το πως έχουν μεταφραστεί τυπικοί αγγλικοί όροι στα ελληνικά, στα έργα Mozilla, KDE και GNOME. Δοκιμάστε με test. Στο αποτέλεσμα θα δούμε τις μεταφράσεις μηνυμάτων που στα αγγλικά κάνουν αναφορά στη λέξη test. Στο KDE βλέπουμε ότι είναι συχνό να υπάρχει μήνυμα της μορφής “Test …

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The OLPC and Greek

(oh, I am writing this through a lousy Net connection; thanks Engelados) I tried out the latest OLPC image, specifically build 218, on Qemu and my aim was to get Greek support configured, if it was not there already. The OLPC does not currently come with a good set of Greek fonts; you will need …

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International Call for Artists’ film and video

AT HOME IN EUROPE Generous European Culture2000 funding enables ISIS Arts (UK) and it’s international project partners BEK (Norway), InterSpace (Bulgaria) and RIXC (Latvia) to curate a NEW SCREENING PROGRAMME around the theme of European Identity for the Big M, ISIS Art’s inflatable touring space. Daily, more and more European people decide to live in …

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