Life, Gentoo, and all the funny things

Sitrep

I’ve been quiet lately due to the stream of changes around me. So shortly I am no longer only user of my desktop nor the major user of it. Thanks to that and issues that Gentoo showed while used by others I simply was unable to afford doing 24/7 tech support for issues with it main disk was sweeped with windows 7 and gentoo was moved to old 250 GB hdd that was long due after its survival date. This disk sadly died, so my remaining Gentoo install is HTPC which has no power to actually build libreoffice in any timely manner (what can one expect from Zacate platform).

Given to that I retired from office team in Gentoo and expected others to enjoy the building the beast. Which should not be that hard as I still work on it as upstream, I just don’t have the Gentoo part. As you can see the mail I was quite wrong as there is nobody actually willing to pick this thing up.

So I need new HDD and given to nowday prices for this components I really don’t want to buy it myself, so anyone wants to donate me some small ssd (30GB or larger as gentoo install + debug symbols take around 20 here [ggdb is huge])? On the other hand as council members behave really warmly these days (I would not care if normal dev said something like this but Markos is one of 7 elected ones picked by everyone) I think I should just ignore Gentoo and go ahead look around for some nicer distro…

Now back to interesting stuff.

libreoffice 3.5 release

3.5 will contain the lot of shiny stuff. Current 3.5.0.3 has fixed nsplugin and various other tiny issues like lpsolver and so on.
It still contains lot of tiny bugs everyone can see here and there, but they are getting fixed as we go so 3.5.1 or 3.5.2 will be ready for corporate environments again.

libreoffice trunk

There is steady stream of patches going into master branch at git.fdo and one of most notable thing is that we no longer use set_soenv perl script and most of the things are converted to gbuild (less paralel make issues, more compilance to MAKEOPTS). Other than that everything is same shiny like in 3.5 so no big difference on usability yet.

VLC translations

In mid-january it was brought to my attention that I am still listed as the one responsible for czech translation at VLC despite translating few strings in 2009. So I started complete overhaul using the KDE translation memory to improve it and remove all the wrong translations (you would not believe how much wrongly translated strings i found so far [I am at 50% of reviewing the current state]). So hopefully I will get this mostly done for 2.0 release so even Czech people can enjoy nice and translated media player.

The current status:

scarabeus@bugaboo: ~/l10n $ LC_ALL=C msgfmt --statistics vlc_new_cs.po 
1766 translated messages, 4120 untranslated messages.
scarabeus@bugaboo: ~/l10n $ LC_ALL=C msgfmt --statistics vlc_cs.po 
2140 translated messages, 1942 fuzzy translations, 1804 untranslated messages.

Gaming and other stuff

Anyone wants to play Battlefiled 3 or Counterstrike (actually anything you seen on the screenshot above :P)?

KDE release party in Prague

There will be release party for the above stuff in Prague on 24.2. at SUSE Linux offices and I will be giving some talk about KDE and LO (at least Tampakrap convinced me I should) so if you want to meet me (and other more cool KDE hackers) you should show up.

Update

As few people contacted me already I think i would like to buy one of these (one, two) or their smaller variants. If you want to realculate the price for Euros/USD divide by 25/17 respectively.

So if you want to donate feel free to sent money on paypal or mail me if you would rather want IBAN.
I will post results as another blog at point when I have enough money or in 30 days whatever will be sooner.