Geeks do fall in love.
Watch the video. Hear the music. Read the lyrics.
Some bits:
I’ve proved my proposition now, as you can see,
so let’s both be associative and free
And by corollary these shows you and I to be
Purely inseperable, Q. E. D.
Monthly Archive for May, 2005
Got back from the Cagayan de Oro City conference. Turned out my poster paper was one of the finalists in the “Best Poster” competition.
Too bad I wasn’t able to enjoy the place because I was cooped up in the conference venue all day, and I was too tired to roam around at night. Well, next time around, I’ll bring my family.
Got new work assignments this month. Have to freshen the “look-and-feel” of the CMS site and introduce separate pages for different user types. Also have to refurbish the VClass front page. I’ll also have to look under the hood of the SMS-database interface.
I’ve been sidelined for quite a while from translating GNOME Glossary (the most recent work is here). But now, I’m buckling down to work again.
I now use KBabel — previously, I did it on gtranslator. To generate statistics for my recent output, I use:
$ msgfmt --statistics -c -v ~/Projects/OpenSource/glossary_tl.po 527 translated messages, 19 fuzzy translations, 344 untranslated messages.
Whew! Lot of work ahead. Well, the glossary is fairly large and while translating terms — specially technical ones — seem pretty disjointed, I hope the word list can be useful for other translators.
The current file is temporarily at my Metawire.org account before submitting it to Eric Pareja, the TL team leader.
I signed up two freebie accounts: one has shell (OpenBSD) access (Metawire.org) and the other just plain web hosting (ePinoy.com).
I’ll be using the Metawire account to brush up on my BSD and host my resume and the Epinoy one to play with a PHP-MySQL-powered app I’m cooking up.
Update: My Metawire shell is still up and running. Epinoy, however, folded up.
Just had my DSL modem replaced — for the fourth time. The first three modems (two Xyxels and I forgot the brand of the first one) kept dying on me. Now I have a SpeedStream 5100.
So you’d think everything’s okay, right? Well, not quite. I don’t know what came to the PLDT tech support’s head when he installed the modem. The modem config came with only one DNS entry, and the search directive contains this line:
search domain.invalid
Due to this, and the usually busy DNS, I’m having a hard time browsing. Heck, I can’t even do a decent dig without the connection timing out.
A simple remedy would be to just replace the offending config in the modem, but I don’t want to mess around with the modem so I’m doing it at the client side. I’d have to delete the search directive and add a new nameserver entry into /etc/resolv.conf:
sudo sed -e '1,2d' -e '/^name/i \nameserver 202.90.128.3' -i etc/resolv.conf
All I have to do is just place the above snippet into /etc/rc.local and I’m good to go.
(Whew! A pretty lengthy post for such a simple solution.)
