Projects

The first batch of computers built for the One Laptop Per Child project could reach users by July this year.

The scheme is hoping to put low-cost computers into the hands of people in developing countries.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6224183.stm

accepted: slideshare
accepted: The Venice Project

review these

*ignore, this is note to self

Moving testing to wireless access from the 770. Accessibility on a mobile screen is important in the production environment. Should be ready in less than a week.

Digitized books open to all. How wonderful. http://www.openlibrary.org/

Not everyone is excited about the free flow of content and knowledge. There are those that prefer to keep secret (at least they think it’s secret as everyone already knows - they just don’t talk about it in the open) unfolding events instead of being open and honest. Snatch a book of history from the shelf in the next few days and thumb through political disasters from the last 100 years. You’ll find that the truth has a way of bubbling open to the public in time. People that had the chance to do the right thing - they sometimes need encouragement. Living in the rural south presents many opportunities to observe people that you would normally meet.

I would have to say that this 5 year assignment has been one of the most interesting long term gigs yet.

Anyway, read a book http://www.openlibrary.org/details/storiesfoothill00graharch

Photoshop on Linux? Sure, it’s possible with wine or the commercial version of wine from Codeweavers. I’m a GIMP fan, been using it for years. If you really want to impress your friends and family with whoopass Linux software then head over to the Pixel image editor site to grab a copy.

Pixel image editor, image editing alternative for Windows, Linux, MacOSX, BeOS/Zeta, QNX, MorphOS, Solaris and DOS, is still in beta kicks so much ass it’s winning awards and hasn’t even been finished yet. Tip of the hat to Kanzels for this cross platform wonder.

In case you are wondering, yes it does install on Ubuntu Linux without a hitch. 

I’ve been assisting Val with online publishing since ‘95 when the Dead Mule first went online. Gone are horse-n-wagon days of formatting each page, saving it & all text then ftp’ing the group to the server.

Yesterday I moved Val’s Washington, NC site to Word Press 1.5 with the wysiwyg plugin.

[edit] - I just noticed that I’ve listed the browser as Firefox. Further examination of the picture shows that it is actually the Epiphany web browser, not Firefox.

Copy/Cut/Paste is not available in Mozilla and Firefox. Well, this has to change as she tends to paste submissions from OpenOffice.org.

Alright, here’s what I’ve got so far:
Wysi-Wordpress > langs > en.js
line 38
tinyMCELang['lang_clipboard_msg'] = ‘Copy/Cut/Paste is not available in Mozilla and Firefox.\nDo you want more information about this issue?’;

Hrm, from Wysi-Wordpress > tiny_mce.js on line 80000bazillion -

his.contentDocument.execCommand (”useCSS”,false,true);}else this.contentDocument.execCommand(’backcolor’,false,value); break;case “Cut”:case “Copy”:case “Paste”:var cmdFailed=false;eval(’try {this.contentDocument.execCommand (command, user_interface, value);} catch (e) {cmdFailed = true;}’);if(tinyMCE.isGecko&&cmdFailed) {if(confirm(tinyMCE.getLang(’lang_clipboard_msg’)))
window.open (’http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midasdemo/securityprefs.html’, ‘mceExternal’);
return;} else tinyMCE.triggerNodeChange(); break;case “mceLink”: var selectedText =”";if(tinyMCE.isMSIE) {var doc= this.getDoc();
var rng= doc.selection.createRange(); selectedText=rng.text;}

Alright then - it’s working now. Cutting text from within OpenOffice.org and then pasting into tinymce textarea works. What a pain in the ass to having to circumvent this default feature of mozilla/firefox. Wish there was a cleaner, easier way. An upload, point and click and activate while sipping coffee kinda way. Some of the changes I made to this box where basicly done against the suggestions of the actual developers. Anyway -

sudo vi /etc/mozilla/user.js

user_pref(”capability.policy.policynames”, “allowclipboard”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.allowclipboard.sites”, “http://www.mozilla.org”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.cutcopy”, “allAccess”);
user_pref(”capability.policy.allowclipboard.Clipboard.paste”, “allAccess”);

Since I’m not the smartest cookie I also did a:
locate all.js

and added
pref(”capability.policy.default.Clipboard.cutcopy”, “AllAccess”);
pref(”capability.policy.default.Clipboard.paste”, “AllAccess”);

Where needed.
You’ll need to sudo /path/to/all.js possibly so break out your sudo gloves.

For those that may care - this is done on Ubuntu Linux Hoary with Word Press 1.5, Wysiwyg for Wordpress 1.5+. Epiphany 1.6.0 and OpenOffice.org 2. Just tested the pasting from OpenOffice.org 2 into Firefox and it works fine also. Mileage may vary but does work for Firefox on Linux.

mud is the bomb

K, now it’s time to make changes to the image upload section of the code. First - there’s too much spacing so I’m shrinking the overall padding and dropping some rows from {$lang_ibrowser_images}: section.

Seems to be working fine - next we move the {$lang_ibrowser_img_upload} section to the top. Seeing that I’m easily confused this will allow for my eyes to quickly focus where I need to click before I start taking in too much visually. Don’t want to drool on our keyboards now do we. So let’s head down to line 373 where we see if ($tinyMCE_upload_allowed) { and grab our upload code.

Hrmz - never mind. It stays as is for the time.