How To Tell Your Browser What Languages You Speak
Posted on Thursday, 22 March, 2007
This is the first of two entries I have planned to write on language and content negotiation. A lot of non-techies do not even know what content negotiation means – which is not really a problem –, but they also miss out on an opportunity to improve their user experience on the Internet. Since in this post I am going to limit myself to language negotiation – as opposed to content negotiation in general –, I believe that it is particularly relevant to language professionals.
Categories: Language and Translation Web Development and Programming
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Back to the top of this pageDual-Booting Linux Ubuntu And Win XP On An Old Fujitsu-Siemens C Series LifeBook
Posted on Saturday, 20 January, 2007
I started the new year falling love with Ubuntu, the Linux distribution that I run on my new desktop computer. Ever since the beauty of the Ubuntu desktop unfolded in front of my eyes for the first time, I have kept enjoying this sense of control and logic that Linux brings to personal computing – so much so that I wanted to benefit from its advantages on my old Siemens LifeBook as well. I am now running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) on my desktop PC and dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) on my notebook.
Whereas on my fresh desktop PC installing Ubuntu from the live CD had been a piece of cake, on my three-and-a-half-year-old Siemens LifeBook, I initially ran into some trouble. I, therefore, thought I might share my findings here in case others are experiencing similar problems. My most important recommendation is for users of old notebooks to use text-based installation (from the alternate distribution) rather than the standard desktop Live CD.
Categories: Loose Talk Web Development and Programming
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Back to the top of this pageGoogleOS: What Not To Expect (or: Why Cars Don't Look Like Horse Carriages)
Posted on Thursday, 23 November, 2006
There has been quite some discussion going on over at my favourite blog Read/Write Web following Emre Sokullu's article GoogleOS: What to expect. I believe that, regardless of the much criticized misapprehension of the Ubuntu licence, Emre's post is quite representative of a line of thought that has lead to a lot of speculation among the web-savy for the last year or so. In this post, I would like briefly to summarize this line of thought and outline why I do not entirely agree with its basic premises. Disclaimer: This is going to be more of an essay than a short blog post.
Categories: Web Development and Programming
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