Jag har nyligen översatt bitar av två olika öppen-källkod-projekt.

• Till nästa version av MoinMoin har jag kompletterat och rättat den svenska översättningen. MoinMoin är en Python-baserad wiki-mjukvara som jag änvänder till flera projekt som jag är inblandat i, t ex det här. Översättningen följer med i version 1.7 av MoinMoin om ett par veckor och den kommer att fungera utan extra arbete, men om man vill så kan man nå den i rå-format här.
• Den andra översättningen var till tyska och gällde ett "tema" till blogg-mjukvaran Wordpress som heter Tarski. Denna layout använder jag till mina flesta bloggar (se länkar vid sidan om) och jag uppdaterade min gamla översättning (som i sin tur var baserad på någon annans) till senaste version (2.1) av Tarski. Filen i .po-format finns bifogat nere.

Jag använder Poedit för att redigera filer i detta format.

Below is a small collection of the few technical articles and product reviews that I have written over the years and that might still be of interest.

• SSH-Tunneling HowTo
• Running Debian GNU/Linux on an IBM Thinkpad R40
• Hacking the gallery software igal
• Rescuing a messed-up linux-laptop with the help of a network-boot setup.
• Getting hacked and what we did about it.
• iAudio 6 MP3-Player Review
• Squeezebox 2 Networked-MP3-Player Review
• Archos Gmini 220 MP3-Player Review

Comment spam in blogs is evil and unexcusable. Not enough that I have to take certain measures to keep this site and some other blogs clean, no! Now they have started spamming my picture gallery which uses Coppermine. I turned the anonymous comments off now, so you have to register in case you want to comment pictures there.

Which reminds me that I have to select some good images from the last months and put them there...

user@linux:~$ host thepiratebay.org
thepiratebay.org A 83.140.176.146
user@linux:~$ host 83.140.176.146
Name: hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepiratebay.org
Address: 83.140.176.146

:-)

Akismet is a service for sorting out spam comments. I have already used this with Wordpress but now there is a plugin for drupal, too. I have it running on this site and it seems to work nicely. Your occasional comment will therefore no longer be held for manual moderation and should appear immediately.

Podpress is a plugin for Wordpress that is supposed to make embedding audio and video content into blogs easy. It maybe does, but after looking at the feature-list that includes the item

View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting,

I do not feel like testing it anymore. It may be nitpicking, but this "you're / your" error is a red flag for me, just like "there / their / they're".

So, someone else found out that eMusic is a very good place to buy music online, without DRM-crippling. I am subscribed to their largest plan (90 tracks each month for 20 US$) and I am happy to hear that they are doing fine.

The choice wasn't easy, but a few days ago I ordered my iAudio 6 and it arrived yesterday. In short, it is an mp3-player with 4GB capacity and, judged from the few hours that I have had it, it seems to live up to the expectations. Read on if you want to know why, see pictures and read the full review.

My Gmini 220 is broken in the most ridiculous way: The button to turn it on and off is bust. Well, I was unsatisfied with its quirky interface anyway and I will re-use it's 20GB 1.8"-harddrive in a cheap USB-case.

But this means I need a new MP3-Player, this time one that plays Ogg/Vorbis, too. Other criteria are the lack of proprietary "transfer-software" (USB-Mass-Storage is what counts!), battery life, size (both physically and in capacity) and the ability to act as a USB-host when transferring images from my camera.

I have been eyeing the iAudio X5 for quite a while and I am sure it is very good. Nevertheless, I am sceptical about this button/joystick that is the main device for user-input. It will most probably wear out with time.

In addition, iAudio has just released an attractive new player with a harddrive in the tiny new 0.85"-format. It is called iAudio 6 and holds 4GB which is significantly less than the X5 with its 20, 30 or even 60GB.

Of course, size does matter, but not exclusively. The battery-life is longer for the smaller one, it is physically smaller and uses a touch-sensitive area instead of a joystick. On the other hand, USB-host capability is nearly useless with only 4GB of memory that will partly be filled with music anyway.

Tough decision! :-)

Wired has a nice and elaborate article about The Pirate Bay which is "operated by a crew of intrepid Swedes who revel in tormenting the content industries."

Yesterday at work, a fellow PhD-student came to me because he had messed up his Linux installation on his laptop. He had misspelled a point for a slash and typed chown -R someuser / as root. He did not realise that something was wrong and only aborted the command after quite a while.

Since all the sysadmin tools now belonged to a user and not to root anymore, the system would not boot but into a rescue shell from where it was not even possible to change back permissions, due to the messed up system.

The normal and best solution for such cases is to ...

I just came across KeyJnote (via). It is a little script, written in Python, that takes a PDF file or a buch of images and displays it/them as a slideshow. It uses OpenGL to make eye-candy transitions between the slides and allows highlighting of certain areas and an easy overview of all slides. Since OpenOffice can export to PDF, I probably will use KeyJnote next time I do a presentation (if I don't prepare it in S5 instead, that is) or next time I present some photographs.

I've mentioned it before and now it is here: The Pandora music service is available directly via the Squeezenetwork. Maybe I should shortly explain what the latter is. If you own a Squeezebox (new review) then you can play your local music archive by running a little server-application on your computer that the box can connect to.

If, however, your computer is turned off, you can have your box connect to the Squeezenetwork, operated by the manufacturer. Of course, you cannot listen to your own music then, but I used it frequently for internet radio. Via the same mechanism, you can now have access (90 day trial) to Pandora which allows you to create own "radio stations" which will be automatically filled with music that resembles the one you specified.

After the trial time is over, it costs you 36$ per year to keep it. I am not sure yet, if that will be worth it. Keep in mind that you do not buy music here - its a pure streaming service. I guess it will depend on the size of their archive and how often it does not find the music specified. Also remember that you cannot choose specific songs. Once you created a station with one or several bands or songs, Pandora will play similar stuff and the only influence you have is to give a song a thumbs-up or down.

Anyway, I like that my squeezeboxes (I own two, one at home, one at work) that I already use heavily, have gotten some additional value which may even help spread it. I doubt that Pandora will make me stop listen to Radio Paradise but I will give it a try, nevertheless.

Virtual servers have become really cheap. You can get a v-server with full root-access, 3GB of webspace and 200GB of monthly traffic for 5 EUR per month. Now I saw the offer by 1blu, a presumably small company from Berlin, which promises unlimited traffic for their v-server that costs 17 EUR/month. I am really wondering how good their connection is, how serious they are about that and if they would start to weep if one would have a constant data-rate of, say, 500 kB/s, making about 1300 GB/month.

But I havn't even found an email address on their webpage to be able to ask them. Warning sign?