That is why a lot of free software people consider Miguel as some kind of “Pro-Microsoft Trojan horse”. That posting looks to me like rather impudent attempt to shift community attention from one real problem (patents-charged OOXML as ISO standard) to some set of other (also real but still) unrelated issues.
The latest release of GSwitchIt plugins is using libsoup 2.2. Because of the high demand, I am upgrading it to latest 2.4 (they broke the API slightly, bad boys!). New release is to be made RSN (actually, the code is already is in SVN).
In case if any student is interested in some fame in X Window universe (and bounty from Google or course), there is a couple of XKB-related projects on XOrg page (see Misc section). Feel free to contact me as mentor if you feel like doing it. A lot of fun (and some share of swear words – I’ll teach you some Russian ones, they are very rude) is guaranteed!
In case if your layout switching using 2 Alt keys (default in GNOME) is broken (for example, in the Ubunty Hardy) – there is a good chance xkeyboard-config has nothing to do with it. Most probably, you see consequences of that bug.
“GSwitchIt plugins” did not get much care from me last year. Now, another useful plugin is in the development – allowing user to specify any name for the layout labels in the keyboard indicator. So instead of “USA” and “Ger” you can setup “Bush” and “Merk”, if you like. The idea is inspired by this bug.
Most of the people sure forgotten XFree 4.2 long ago. It was released 18.01.2002 – more than 6 years ago. But libxklavier supported it up to the version 3.4. Now, it is over. Starting from 3.5 (just released) – no more support for that old stuff. Farewell.
As a small present to this new release, libxklavier finally got its own place in the bugzilla world. So, regular users and distromakers are very welcome to use it.
I am trying to establish my own time server in the home LAN.
First I configured a couple of Ubuntu instances (matter of adding “ntp-servers” to request specified in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf)
Unfortunately, out of the box OS2008 ignores NTP server provided by DHCP. In order to enable that functionality, I had to add a couple of lines into /etc/udhcpc/udhcpc.script:
[ -n "$ntpsrv" ] && echo "server $ntpsrv" > /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian
My next question is how to make MacOS X use that information (and check MSWin btw)