Ένα συχνό πρόβλημα είναι η επιλογή της ελληνικής μετάφρασης του όρου proprietary software. Κατά την Wikipedia, proprietary software είναι computer software on which the producer has set restrictions on use, private modification, copying, or republishing. Similar terms include “closed-source software” and “non-free software”. Για κάποιο λόγο δεν υπάρχει προτίμηση στο «κλειστό λογισμικό» και βλέπουμε την …
November 2008 archive
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Nov 22 2008
Help make «DocBook XML to PDF» work for Greek
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC “-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN” “http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd”> <article lang=”en”> <section><title>Title</title> <para>ëãáâṩẫëĝéõōåőȩçą</para> <para>ЁЂыњѨѬѺѸѶѦщЖЊЌЍШЩзф</para> <para>ᾶᾳὰέᾁᾂδϕϟϸϡϸϸαϷϕϲδϕϛ€ϕ©ϖϐͻ©ϖϐ</para> </section> </article> This is an issue that I would appreciate if someone could help in solving. The above document (mytestfile.xml) is a DocBook XML document with text in many scripts (latin, cyrillic and greek). Normally it was difficult …
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Nov 19 2008
Rendering bug in Firefox, threat level: annoyance
There is this rendering bug in Firefox that currently can be classified as an annoyance. It was discovered during a discussion at the Ubuntu-GR mailing list and reported in June 2008, and at that time it would cause Firefox to crash. Therefore, it was deemed as a security issue, and the bug report was not …
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Nov 17 2008
How to install the 64-bit Adobe Flash Player 10 for Linux in Ubuntu Linux?
Update 2 May 2010: There is a repository for Flash 64bit at https://launchpad.net/~sevenmachines/+archive/flash Though I have not tried this, I suggest to give it a try. I tried this and it works like a charm. Uninstall flashplugin-nonfree, add the new PPA repository with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash and then install flashplugin64-installer. Update 10 Nov 2010: The …
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Nov 12 2008
Ubuntu 8.10, PulseAudio and Skype Problem
You installed Ubuntu 8.10, then added Skype, you try out Skype and you notice that the microphone does not work. What’s wrong? If you search the lists, you can find some indications, however no proper explanation of what’s the source of the problem. Without having the Skype Linux developers explain, it’s difficult to know what …
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Nov 12 2008
Updated to Ubuntu 8.10
I just updated my system to Ubuntu 8.10. Since I had a separate partition for /home, I opted to actually reinstall while retaining the files in /home. The rest of the post is a laundry list of tips. I could not find a blank CD or CDRW, so I opted to write the installation 8.10 …
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