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I have taken some photos, reachable from http://shooby.gnome.hu/pics/2004_10_11_dunaujvaros_fsf.hu_roadshow/. We have promises about video recordings of the event, I will have to write a video cd from my presentation, it was such a success… 🙂

INFOtrend is a trade fair and conference at the HUNGEXPO Budapest Fair Center, 26-28 october 2004. I have been invited to give a talk about Linux in the office environment.

On monday the FSF.hu roadshow team will visit Dunaujvaros to deliver speeches about Free Software and Open Source solutions. I will talk about free software development tools. Location of the event: Kerpely Antal Dormitory, Diszterem, Dunaújváros, Semmelweis u. 5.

Weekly at Thursday, 20:00 CET (OK, OK, after 15 minutes of ads) about Apple history, Mac OS X and Mac users and fanatics, news, rumors… We will show you our Mac 🙂 Come and join us, our iChat room will be “beszeljukmac” hopefully, live stream is at mms://www.fix.tv/fixdsl (blah, WM stream, not QT)

OK, finally I had some time to fix a bug in the dateFilter checking code…

I hate to make temporary users and set passwords. I have made a small shell script to help me making custom AFP shares. How to use it (from Terminal): $ mkafpshare.sh sharename /path/of/directory/to/share You will have to type in an administrator password (script uses sudo), then turn off and on Personal File Sharing in System Preferences/Sharing. When you are connecting to your mac from another mac, choose guest, and voilà, new share 🙂

Oh yes! It’s incredible! I have NeoOffice based on OpenOffice 1.1 code, thanks to Patrik. Direct link to the news entry. Knows Hungarian umlaut characters, faster, able to save PDF, etc… By the way, I managed to make the Hungarian spell checker and hyphenation work… At home I will try to build my own Hungarian version, too!

After long delay (waiting for service, about 3 weeks or more) few days ago (ok, I know, I’m a bad blogger) I got my first dual processor system. Reeeealy cute!!! A real PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet model) with two 450 MHz CPU, RAM and some other parts cannibalised from another systems. Yes, the seller have changed the hard drive to a noisy 20 gig one, my first step was to

I’m planning to join the demonstration. If you are in Hungary and you are software developer or user you should consider to join us. Software patents are bad. This is one of our banners:

The European Parliament will have a vote on the issue in September about software patents. We are in the works to make that little difference by putting pressure on the Hungarian government to withdraw their support for the current draft. We plan a demonstration and talks. Our last – and only – chance to influence the decision to be made seems to be to put some pressure on the officials