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Last years, Francis Tyers has been working as Debian maintainer for Apertium packages and upstream (Apertium is an open-source machine translation platform), and I've been sponsoring it all this time.

Today, I've uploaded a new version for Apertium (3.0.7) that solves a few errors that has been blocking a new lang pair. This new pair is en-es. It's still in beta status, but the quality is quite good.

Now, we can see in Debian a lot of pairs:

English-Spanish

English-Catalan

French-Spanish

French-Catalan

Spanish-Romanian

Spanish-Portuguese

Spanish-Galician

Spanish-Catalan

Esperanto-Spanish

Esperanto-Catalan

There are too a graphical user interface for Apertium (apertium-tolk) that is a useful test program for apertium-dbus.

The present for apertium: support txt, html, rtf, odt, docx, wxml and xlsx documents.

The future... more lang pairs (spanish-basque, catalan-romanian, spanish-occitan and catalan-occitan)... integration with OpenOffice and Iceweasel

Tags: debian

I've been using vim for long time. Last weeks I've been improving my configuration, and now I have:

* Integration with quilt
* Navigate into deb files
* It shows C functions prototypes
* auto-completion of C structures
* auto-completion of known strings
* Project management
* syntax correction
* translate documents with apertium
* doxygen function auto-comment
* extended shell scripts support (snippets insertion, syntax correction, parameters control...)
* highlight current line
* show unified diff for local file changes

And now: I must to program in java. I don't like it, and the worst is that the better I found to program in java is Eclipse. It's powerful but it needs a lot of processor, memory...

Recently I've discovered eclim, a vim plugin that integrates Eclipse on it!!! The only "problem" I found on it is that it need eclipse 3.3 and in Debian we only have 3.2. I've downloaded and old eclim version (1.2.3) and it seems to work nice in Debian.

[19:10] thanks to emacs you learned to play piano
....
You are welcome, vim.

A few days ago, I was sponsoring some packages. My laptop has something broken and it sometimes shows irreproducible errors, so I used another computer to make the package builds... I did an error. I didn't do it with pbuilder... so the result was a few ftbfs.

To avoid this to happen again, I've prepared my own autobuilder with a incoming system with a few scripts writen by Matt Brown.

I suppose it will do my sponsors have his/her packages uploaded faster and I don't forget again to built them in a jail!

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.

Yesterday, upstream released a new version that solves a lot of known problems. Paul Wise has worked  hard and has prepared the new package. (Thanks for your work!!!)

Now, we need your help testing this new version. You can install the new packages (version 0.61.06-1), test them and report bugs.

At this moment, we have two bugs (#370461 and #370459) blocking it and we are waiting your bug reports to know if we can close them.

You could find a lot of samples on  Synfig samples page, but maybe you want to test it with a Debian related animation!

AMD has announced that is going to deliver open graphics driver for ATI graphics card. Good news.

Incredible and Fantastic for music lovers!

In my sources.list you can find:

deb http://ftp.debian.cat/debian/ sid main contrib

Good news to Catalan Debian users.

Some Developers can't see their own back.

Yesterday, a friend say me it need help installing its Windows network. I couldn't help him so we stop talking.
This morning, he talked me again and said me he has solved the problem. He took a Debian I've gave him and it detect all and worked perfectly!.

Congratulations to d-i team for the good work!, It has achieved to do Debian installation easiest than Windows XP!!!

Orphaned packages, and maintainers resigning. The dunk tank, as a improved project has FAILED.

Few weeks ago, I began working with Paul Wise (pabs) with Synfig Studio packages, an excellent software to make animations.
I have tested it just one and a half hour with no previous experience and reading the tutorial I ended this animation. (UPDATE: you could get the .sif file too)

There is a complete gallery with a lot of examples.

At the moment we are only four developers working on it, and extra developers working on it should be welcome!

Build package with pdebuild can be a slow pain... but cowbuilder package could be your aspirin:

With a simple package:

with cowbuilder:

pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder ----------> 54 sec.

without cowbuilder:
pdebuild                       ----------> 3 min. 8 sec.

A pretty option to Thunderbird:

mail.identity.id1.FQDN

It let to set the prefered FQDN in Thunderbird, so the Message-Id is correctly shown in headers instead using the domain in your mail when you use a smtp to relay mails.

I've been DAMnified.

Yesterday I upgraded my Thunderbird from 1.0.7 to 1.5. My surprise was that Calendar plugin stop working! It was lucky because I found a new Calendar plugin Lighting, that let me to import the old Calendars. with better integration with Thunderbird.

In my institute there are installed a server with Windows 2000 with its firewall... Yesteday, we received a port scan:

Tipo de suceso: Advertencia
Origen del suceso:      Control de Microsoft ISA Server
Categoría del suceso:   Filtro de paquetes
Id. del suceso: 15105
Fecha:          22/03/2006
Hora:           9:58:26
Usuario:                No disponible
Equipo: MAIA
Descripción:
El servidor ISA detectó un ataque de todos los puertos de la dirección IP (protocolo Internet) 65.54.239.20.  
Para obtener más información acerca de este evento, vea la Ayuda del servidor ISA.
Datos:
0000: 1f 00 00 00               ....

If you search the name this IP 65.54.239.20 to know who is the owner, you obtain:

TARGET:        65.54.239.20
NAME:          MICROSOFT-1BLK
NUMBER:        65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255
CITY:          REDMOND
STATE:         WASHINGTON
COUNTRY:       US
LAT:           47.67
LONG:          -122.12
LAT_LONG_GRAN: City
LAST_UPDATED:  20-Jun-2001
NIC:           ARIN
LOOKUP_TYPE:   Block Allocation
RATING:       =20
DOMAIN_GUESS:  microsoft.com
STATUS:        OK

What's doing Microsoft? Why they scan us? What are they looking for?