I Jump On Bandwagons Jackie Chan style
In a typical pattern for me I got so enthusiastic about blogging I went got
myself 4. All of which now are in total desuetude. My solution? write
myself software for a master blog from which I shall update all the
others. Yeah that's the ticket.
Talk At LILUG
So what have I been up to lately? Last Tuesday I gave a talk at the Long
Island Linux Users Group (LILUG.) It
was originally going to be about IMAP but we ended up discussing Debian
instead. Get involved in your local LUG it's good fun.
Indian language support in Qt
Version 3.2.0b1 of Trolltechs' Qt
toolkit now has more complete support for Unicode encoded Indian languages.
The Debian maintainer is saying it's going to be a while before there are
official packages so I made my own and voila! all KDE apps are now able
to display Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati etc. It's not perfect. Jodaksharas do
not seem to be supported so for instance vya in my surname is shown as
v-virama-ya but at least it's readable. Now to figure out how to do input.
pgp4pine Debian Package
I did an NMU as the package was totally broken. I fixed all extant bugs
including a release-critical one and updated it to the latest version.
njudge
This isn't quite free software but the source is available. It's software
for playing and adjudicating games of Diplomacy via email. We recently
released version 1.4.0 which fixes
many bugs and adds some new variants and other features. I did the autotools
stuff and will also make .rpms and .debs