Ko je bratranec Matej postavljal svoj blog, ga je seveda želel imeti v slovenskem jeziku. S samim WordPressom ni bilo težav. Vsa zahvala za prevod WordPressa v slovenščino gre Simonu Rozmanu. Sicer prevoda za različico 2.1 še ni na voljo, a prevod za različico 2.0.7 posloveni tudi veliko večino različice 2.1.

Druga komponenta, ki jo je bilo treba posloveniti, je bila tema. Matej si je za svoj spletni dnevnik izbral temo Connections Reloaded 1.5, za katero pa še ni obstajal slovenski prevod. Nič, pljunil sem v roke in temo pač prevedel v slovenščino. Za osnovo sem vzel paket s francoskim prevodom in ga naučil govoriti slovensko. Rezultat vam je na voljo za prenos:
Tema Connections Reloaded 1.5 za WordPress v slovenščini

Za uporabo temo odpakirajte v mapo wp-content/themes in jo nato izberite v nastavitvah za WordPress > Predstavitev > Teme. Da delujejo povezave na vrhu strani je potrebno še ustvariti nove strani z vsebino: O avtorju (o-avtorju), Arhivi (arhivi), Povezave (povezave) in Stik (stik). V oklepajih so nizi, ki jih morate pri ustvarjanju strani uporabiti za nastavitev Žeton objave (Page Slug).

Upam, da bo še komu prišla prav. Če opazite kako napako ali manjkajoč prevod, mi kar sporočite spodaj v komentarjih.

Značke: blog, bloganje, internet, wordpress, slovenščina, prevod, prevajanje

While we are still eagerly awaiting the release of KDE 4 - on which developers, artists and other contributors are working very hard - here comes a new service release with many bug fixes and translation updates. In addition, KDE 3.5.6 brings a couple of new features:

• Fields for entering passwords show bullets instead of asterisks
• Kicker, the main panel, got support for Compiz window manager
• Akregator, the feed reader, got session management support for tabs
• KMail, the email client, now enables you to create templates for messages
• Kontact, the personal information management (PIM) suite got new Summary menus for appointments and To-Dos

KDE 3.5.6 is also the first version that fully supports Euro as the new national currency here in Slovenia. For more details about the new version you can check out KDE 3.5.6 Release Announcement and KDE 3.5.6 Changelog.

Tags: kde, kde4, kde 4, desktop, linux, kicker, compiz, akregator, kmail, kontact, open source, software, slovenia, euro

Winter has really been boring this year. No snow at all and not even that cold. Definitely not what it should be like here in Bohinj at this time of the year. Really bad for business at our ski centres Vogel and Kobla. Until the day before yesterday, when it finally started snowing. Some real winter at last. I hope it keeps snowing for a longer time.

Here’s the view from our balcony

On a weather related note, we had quite a few power outages yesterday and today. A very long time since the last one. Because of this my Gentoo Linux powered home server was off-line several times for a few of minutes. When it went off-line for the first time it had a couple of hours more than 81 days of uptime. I’m quite sure this is its highest uptime. I guess I’ll have to buy myself an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) unit some day. Until that day comes, don’t be surprised if this blog isn’t accessible at some moments.

Tags: winter, weather, bohinj, slovenia, uptime

If you check the Powered By section in the right sidebar you can see that one component that makes this blog possible is WordPress, an open source personal publishing system. Today a new major version of WordPress was released. In version 2.1 you can find new features like: autosave, tabbed editor, lossless XML import/export, spell checking and search engine privacy option. An expert from MySQL (the database behind WordPress) has also gone through the code and optimized it so it is now faster. You can read more about this release (and the future) in the post WordPress 2.1 “Ella”. The download is available here.

Tags: blog, blogging, internet, wordpress, cms

A couple of days ago the European Commission released results of an extensive study titled Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU (PDF, 1,8 MiB). It’s not only that the title is long, the report itself is 287 pages long.

What this study shows is that free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) is very important for Europe (and the rest of the world). It is also clear from the study that companies can save a lot of money by migrating from proprietary closed source software to open source software. Another benefit of FLOSS is that it encourages creation of small and medium-sized businesses and new jobs. Which is good for increased competition and innovation. An interesting bit of data is that existing base of FLOSS would cost firms almost € 12 billion to reproduce. And this base is doubling every 18-24 months. There are more benefits and details in the full report.

So, this report is in stark contrast with lies and FUD that Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, is trying to spread about FLOSS. Don’t believe them, read the report and get the true facts. Now it is upon our companies and politicians to implement the recommendations from the study and boost our economy.

Tags: software, free software, open source, floss, foss, europe, european union, business, economy, ict

As I’ve written before, Thousand Parsec is a free and open source project aiming to create 4X space empire building strategy games similar to Stars! and Galactic Civilizations. We are currently running an AI programming competition. So, if you know the fine craft of writing code and would like to take a shot at game programming, be sure to check out the official competition page and join us. Who knows, you might even win one of the cool prizes. The preferred source code languages for submissions are C++, Python and Ruby. But you can use any language of your choice. The deadline for submissions is 31^st of March 2007.

Update: The deadline date was wrong. You have one month of extra time than previously reported.

Tags: games, 4x, strategy, turn-based, strategies, tbs, stars!, galactic civilizations, programming, ai, artificial intelligence

A couple of months back we could read a report from a French company called Xiti Monitor, which indicated that here in Slovenia 40.5% people use Mozilla Firefox. This figure is great, but I think it is a little bit too high. Or in other words, the sample might not represent larger population in the best way.

Today a Slovenian company Iprom released their report (in Slovenian language), which should be very accurate. It shows that 29,5% of Slovenians use Firefox to surf the web. Still a very high share of Firefox users. They also indicate how fast the share of Firefox users is increasing. From January 2006 to December 2006 the Firefox share has increased by 64%.

Whatever the completely accurate number is, it is nice to see that Slovenia is the world leader when it comes to use of open source web browser. And it is great to see that so many people are switching to Firefox. Now, if only people at some Slovenian banks, who still force people to use the highly insecure Internet Explorer, would read these reports.

Tags: slovenia, firefox, browsers, web, internet, ie, internet explorer

Ever since 1^st January 2007 our new national currency here in Slovenia is the all mighty Euro (€), which is the official currency for most of the countries in the European Union. For the last two weeks we could still pay with our old and trusty currency – the Slovenian tolar (SIT). But from this day forward the transitional days are over and the Euro is the only currency left. Each country has their own design of one side of the coins. Here are the images and descriptions of Slovenian Euro coins.

I myself and most of the people didn’t have any problems with the change. I guess we are all used to changing our national currency. It has happened a couple of times in our recent history. Hopefully, Euro is here to stay for a long time. Plenty of time to loose my first Euro coin and find one

Oh and by the way, the translations and source code for KDE desktop and KOffice are already updated. You can expect the new Euro ready versions to be released in just a few days.

Tags: slovenia, euro, tolar, money, europe, kde, koffice