Lost documents

Yesterday (June 13) at noon I find out, that I have lost documents. Among these documents were the car registration (part II), Civic Responsibility policy + talon, ATE protocol + talon. Immedeately I searched for the documents, But I could not find them. The only place where I could lost them is post station 115, where I posted letters that morning. Yesterday afternoon and early this morning I manage to restore all but the talon for the гражданската - разбира се I must pass new ATE, because it can't be restored :-(

No doubt I'm guilty, but I can't understant, why the person that found them (if they wre found) did not contact me. He should have at least my address, which is enaugh to leave a note. Moreover on the Civic Responsibility policy I think there is my mobile phone number.

Please, If anyone found these document to return them. Don't be bad!

Update: The documents were found and were returned in the late evening of June 14. At lease I'm now calm that nobody will abuse them. Thank you Svetoslav!

Updated translation of Bugzilla 2.22

After lots of tests of the new translation and clearing some sentances, as well as syntax error fixes in the templates today I'm happy to announce the updated translation of Bugzilla 2.22. This is maybe the most qualitative translation for the moment. I recomend to all of you to update your installations. In the moment I don't think I'll transfer the changes and fixed problmes onto the old (2.18 и 2.20) branches, because I don't see interest to them.

You can download this release from the usual places:

• OpenFMI - tar.gz, tar.bz2;
• My personal ftp server - tar.gz (md5), tar.bz2 (md5);

This version I devote to my daughter Gabriella. I love you.

The only thing that makes sense...

I'm alone. I left my wife Iva and my daughter Gabriella to stay in Kurdzhali. My brother is on a business trip again. The work is tedious (understand, not that there is now work, but it doesn't give you pleasure) and uninteresting. At the moment I give up my desire of a career not because I didn't believe in myself, but because I can't find kindred souls. People I can trust and they can trust in me too. I'm sick of working on fabricated schemas, and not the way I'm used to, I'm sick of not using the tools I'm used to.

Pondering over these things I'm always coming to the conclusion that the only thing that makes sense in live are children. The only thing that is worth it is to crete life. My live without Gabriella and Iva is senseless. Thats why I have no patience to bring them home this week.

I suppose, that I should consider job change.

Translations of Bugzilla 2.22rc1, 2.22 and 2.20.2

This friday and saturday I managed to complete the translation of the new branch of Bugzilla - 2.22, as well as to do the translation of the 2.20.2 version. The packages for the official version I put on the project pages few minutes ago, as well as on my personal ftp sever. I hope the are usefull for someone, because considering the count of the downloads the translation doesn't draw much interest. Good night! ;-)

The translation of Bugzilla 2.22

Two weeks now as I'm translating Bugzilla 2.22rc1. The tings go slowly, because there are many new files. Since the idea of Bugzilla is full localization, now should be translated things such as edition and creation of products, as well as edition of parameters - things that up until now were only in English. I hope in the following several weeks to manage to finish the translation, so when the new 2.22 version come out it will be ready. Currently I don't know instaltion, which uses 2.22rc1, but if I don't find one until the moment of finishing the translation I'll have to update my Bugzilla to be able to test the new things.

Print server with Slackware Linux and HP 1020

This sunday my home server become local print server as well. Recently more often I need to print various documents and because of that I bought a HP LaserJet 1020 laser printer. Confortable and cheap printer for home.

Naturally the device came with drivers only for my "favourite" operating system Windows. Since I use Linux for everything I have to find a way to run it alone. The things turn to be more easy as I was exepcting. It turned out that the printer works with ZjStream protocol of Zenographics, for wihch there is support in the foo2zjs project. After an hour of work I managed to made package (md5, sign) for Slackware and after I installed it the things start to order one by one. Adding a printer to CUPS is really easy with the wizard in KDE. It took only 5 minutes. After that I was able to print on the device from every application. I hope soon to write an article, in which to detail the whole thing and then to publish it in Linux for Bulgarians.

The bad thing is that the dirver have less settings compared to the Windows variant, but however it works good. In Internet I found complaints that the pringing stops after 20 printed pages and this happens on Slackware, but I'm have nos success acheaving this problem yet.

Old hardware...

Last Sunday I decided to try fix my old laptop - a CTX EzBook. Yes, but no... The hardware is old. It was manufactured somewhere in 1997 and the support was ceased somewhere between the middle of 1998 and the beginning of 1999. So the things were only in my hands.

The laptop has several problems both mechanical and with software. The most essential mechanical problem is that the screen doesn't have support. The mounting of the hinges is totally broken (some smart guy made if of plastic...), so the screen is literally hanging attached only on the power and RGB cables. Another problem is that the floppy drive isn't working, and the CD ROM drive is reading only some disks. This doesn't allow for easy installation of software. A bigger problem is that the BIOS-а is old, quite old and doesn't support large hard drives (like for example IBM Travelstar 20GB). The support of such hard drives is provided by a special software, which I'm not sure where I found about 4-5 years ago. This day I also found that I'm not longer able to boot from CD, which otherwise is readable. This makes installation of operating system impossible except for some sort of network installation.

I though how happened so this machine broke up in front of my eyes for about 5 years. I have desktop PC, which is even older (in the sense that I'm using it since long ago) and it works much better then when it was new, but the monitor is another question.

Do you also have such PCs? What you do with them when they become almost completely useless? I wonder if there is someone to whom the whole machine or some of its parts would do some good. Would there be someone who could fix it, because I'm not good with hardware - my strength is elsewhere.

Shell fun :-)

Yesterday coming back from work quite accidentlly I noticed something strange in the prices bilboard of Shell Sofia Sredec. Someone had mixed up something. Look for yourself :-)

Translations of Bugzilla 2.18.x and 2.20 now official

Thanks to Dave Miller the bulgarian translations of Bugzilla are now announced in the "Localizations" section of the Bugzilla project, which makes them official.

Translations of Bugzilla-2.18.x and Bugzilla 2.20

Today I've announced the initial bulgarian translations of Bugzilla 2.18.x and 2.20 on the pages of the mozilla-bg project. Hope they will be usefull. I expect soon they to be officialy announced.