I just received an offer to translate the Pocketcity into Catalan; which I appreciate. He’s mentioned that he’d like to have the .po files which tells me that I’m probably doing the translation of the application all wrong.
Currently I’m using the lang attribute of the .rcp files to split up all the separate languages that are used, and I realize that I could miss strings using this method. I have found that during testing I have missed strings so the ould is a bit of a misnomer.
Palm KeyClick hack
I’ve got to put in an entry to the keyclick hack, becuse people have started to look for it. I have a search form, but it’s not linked into the other elements of the site. By adding this entry, linking to the keyclick hack I’m ensuring that it will be findable when people go looking for it. There have been a minimum of 2 searches for palm related stuff.
Anyway the keyclick hack is at https://www.petesh.com/palmos/. I’m sure I’ll put some more stuff in there.
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Today’s Tunage
Music today is by an artist called MC 900 foot Jesus. It’s interesting and quirky and just old school enough to be enjoyable. Mind you some people think it’s a load of crap, but what do they know?
Another round of applause to Ed P. who’s introduced me to a lot of interesting music.
Three Laptops
Well, I just spent about 2 hours installing 3 Toshiba Portégé M100 laptops with the latest build of Solaris. Quite easy once I figured out that one of the network cables was a POS and was causing all the NFS traffice to fail. Video was a snap – configure the XF86 i810 driver. It recognized the network card immediately. The only thing is the sound. The drivers are at tools.de, which covers that.
Oh Very good
A wonderful article about what might happen if you subscribed to the new google mail service (gmail).
Blossoms
I took this picture a few weeks ago and didn’t put it anywhere. I suppose now would be as good as any other to put it up.
Leading Teams
Well I just had a tired half hour discussion about teams and what constitutes a good team and the various roles that are needed to allow a good team to function.
Of course what was missing was any mention of the general problems that tend to occur when the members are not in the same place, or even in the same timezone. I’ve been a member of a team that has always been a minimum of 8 hours from me. I recently got a change of manager, who is only 7 hours away. Normally it’s a struggle to talk to my manager before 5.30pm local time, which is a bit on the annoying side as my energy levels are really low, now I get to call him at any time after lunch. He’s in the office at a decent hour. I’m scared that I might have things to talk to him about other than the fact that I’m shattered from yet another long day of fixing problem.
One of today’s beautiful problems was the removal of a CD from the drive. It’s UNIX and you don’t want to do something stupid like reboot the computer. It’s teaching time. To find out what processes are using a file system issue a fuser command. You get a groovy output containing the PIDs that are using the mount point. You could check them using p(s)tree; just in case it’s something important (like vold :-). Then you kill them. But what’s best is that fuser allows you to do that by passing in -k, so if you didn’t care…
Tirivia about the fuser command. When you get the list of processes that are using the file system, it will indicate whether they are tied to consoles by having a c after the ID. Great, ahother thing that needs filtering, but no! all the non-pid information is output to stderr, while the pids are output to stdout so a simple 2>/dev/null filters out all but the process ids.
I’ve Ed Pil to thank for that piece of trivia which he informed me of while working on the layered driver effort for Solaris.
Self Selection
Sometimes people tend to say something that seems quite innocuous, but it turns out to be quite insulting. How about this pearl:
It turned out that the worm exploited three or four different holes in the system. From this, and the fact that we were able to capture and examine some of the source code, we realized that we were dealing with someone very sharp, probably not someone here on campus.” –Dr. Richard LeBlanc, associate professor of ICS, in George Tech’s campus newspaper after the Internet worm
What is it with the rain?
Every morning for the last week it’s been really nice. I’ve been able to wear my sunglasses, which is quite an occasion. However as soon as I’ve got to the office the weather starts to deteriorate. Clouds roll in and the wind starts howling. By the time it gets to the end of the evening and I’m off home it’s still like that.
Stranger and stranger.
anyone got an idea what this is?
I’d like to know what people think this is
