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.

First pictures of Gabriella

Today me and my wife succeded to make the first picture of Gabriella.

This one was shoted by me, and the following two from my wife with the camera of her phone.

I have created album on Gabriella first pictures on my home server. If you want to view more pictures, please visit it.

I become father

Yesterday (2005-12-16) at 15:45 EET I become father of a girl. The children weights 3.280 kg and is 48 cm long. I was able to see it for about a minute and fascinated from the feelings I forgot the take a shot :-)

The children and his mother are feeling good and at this moment they are resting in the maternity ward of the "St. Anna" hospital in Mladost (Okravna bolnica).

I'm impatiently waiting the morning when I'll be able to see my daughter longer and I'll be able to hug her for the first time. To hug my little Gabriella.

Bugzilla-bg in Mozilla-bg

Yesterday thanks to Ognian Kulev I become part of Mozilla-bg project. As for beginning I'll participate in the project with my translation оf Bugzilla.

I hope in two weeks I'll be able to upload the translations of 2.18 and 2.20 versions.

Ognian Kulev has posted a news on the project pages.

Тhree consecutive

Today I manage to publish three consecutive news on the Linux-BG site (actually 4, but one never came up live):

• Debian is the fastest growing distribution;
• 5000 PCs with GNOME in Macedonia;
• Texas Instruments integrates Linux.

It's an achievement, as recently I rarely get the opportunity to work additionally and barely manage to deal with my projects.