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August 29, 2009

Fixes for Gallery 2 French translation in module ‘core’

Filed under: Development projects, English, OSS Solutions — jwarnier @ 1:27 pm
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After years using G2, I finally fixed the fr.po for core module and submitted it to latest registered French translator of Gallery2 several weeks again. After review, he encoded the following tracker on SF.net for everybody to benefit from it, even if no G2 update is ever published again:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2846783&group_id=7130&atid=582564

As G2 is using gettext, updating it it fairly easy.

Enjoy!

August 28, 2009

Enhance your usage of Firefox (part 1)

Filed under: OSS Solutions, Tech Crunch — ywarnier @ 6:12 am
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When installing Ubuntu on one of the new machines we get from time to time, there’s a common mechanism I repeat over and over with Firefox:

  1. install the Firebug extension
  2. install the Web Developer extension
  3. install the ShowIP extension
  4. install the GooglePreview extension
  5. change the link of the start bar icon to start Firefox, to “firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager %u” instead of “firefox %u”

The latest option allows you to launch Firefox using different profiles, each of them having its own extensions. This allows you to have a slower but fully equipped Firefox on one side and a faster but bare Firefox on the other side. If you installed all the extensions I have mentioned  (and maybe more), you might want to get another one for faster or cleaner demos. There you go, your second profile can be called “demos”.

Oh, and you might want to change the look of your Firefox a little bit with the Persona extension. That’s quickly boring as well, and it doesn’t help usability much, but still, considering your browser is the tool you probably use most as a web developer…

August 20, 2009

Easily avoid using your password in an SSH connexion: ssh-copy-id

Filed under: Tech Crunch — ywarnier @ 7:45 pm
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On Linux systems, there used to be a mildly complicated but tedious way to allow you to SSH another computer using your public key, which involved finding and copying your public key on the other host, then connecting to the host and putting this key into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

Now there is a much simpler way to do that… Just launch the following command (with your own data), enter your password, and that’s it!

ssh-copy-id  yourusername@remote.host.address

I love administrative simplification!

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