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Open Malaysia: French Recommendation for Interoperatibility Supports Use of ODF
Posted: October 6th, 2006, 8:01pm BST by ditesh
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<p>Some background information on the <a href="http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2006/10/mixed_week_odf_.html">French ODF recommendation</a>: On the 3rd of October 2005, the prime minister of France (<a title="Dominique de Villepin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_de_Villepin">Dominique de Villepin</a>) asked Carayon to head up a new report that would focus on, to put it blightly, world domination for French companies. In particular, the report would analyze the constraints and opportunities
 for France and among other things:</p>
 
 <ul><li> “to weigh in the
 production of standards, in particular technical, by the international
 authorities, in particular European”,</li>
 
 <li>to sensitize the companies “with
 the negotiations in progress”, and</li>
 
 <li>to inform them “of the stakes and the
 content of the international discussions in the fields with regard to
 them”.</li></ul>
 
 <p>His report, titled "<a href="http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/064000728/index.shtml">On Equal Terms</a>", was published in September 2006 and made policy recommendations that:</p>
 
 <ul><li>ODF be used as a document format in the French public sector as well as a document exchange format with other European countries</li>
 
 <li>France fund an open source research security center</li>
 
 <li>a system to share best practises in open source between French governmental agencies be set up</li></ul>
 
 <p>In an interesting coincidence, a <a href="http://www.osl.dk/upload-mappe/ram_engPDF/">study</a> done by Ramboll Management reported that the Danish government could save USD$ 21 million over the next five years if they adopt OpenOffice. This report was commissioned by the Danish Open Source Business Association.</p>
 
 <p>With <a href="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=25009">other recent developments</a> in this area, strong governmental and business interests in pursuing an agenda of promoting forth Free Software and Open Standards (FSOS) for cost reductions, economic impetus and national sovereignty are no longer just minor data points but a strong upward trend.</p> <div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=7K9BMed6"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=7K9BMed6" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=iXCbKzTr"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=iXCbKzTr" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?a=BfELytL1"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OpenMalaysia?i=BfELytL1" border="0"></img></a></div></content> -
Colin Charles: Nokia N73: impressions on the Optus network, and a Mac
Posted: October 6th, 2006, 12:14pm BST by byte
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I am now the proud owner of a Nokia N73. Thank you Optus. Of course, getting to use it is a little quirky.
I’ve not been able to get the Flickr Upload working. Maybe this is something Optus decided to disable? Anyone can confirm this? Instead, I’ve decided that a ShoZu account is probably what I want, and that’s my “interface” to Flickr or even to Wordpress it would seem. Oops, scratch that. Flickr Upload does work, it just seems to be configured a little differently (and if you’re doing it on a Mac, you need to send the file via the Bluetooth File Exchange utility in Applications/Utilities). One thing ShoZu is missing seems to be the MovableType API.
I’ve not been able to get it to sync with Linux, which is a bit of a pain, but I’ve managed to get it to sync with iSync on the Mac. You want to read Adri’s excellent post on the topic, and get this file. I’d say read the site, but I can’t read German myself. Now my calendar and contact details are on my phone, which is rather nifty, because unlike the iPod, I can edit entries here.
Inserting the memory card is a pain. You need nails. I just cut mine yesterday. I thought this was bad on the Nokia 770, but this one’s worse. Speaking of which, the chargers for the Nokia 770 and the N73 are similar! No more old Nokia phone chargers (though they do provide the dongle for it, if you absolutely need to use it).
I can’t figure out how to display the time thats being taken on the current call. Help? This was available on the Ericsson T610, and the Minute Minder is generally useful as here we have free 20 minute calls to other Optus customers. Also, the Autolock seems daft - why do I need to enter a pin to unlock a keylock? On the T610, after 20 seconds it’d keylock the phone, but unlocking it was simple and didn’t require a PIN. Can this be replicated?
It has a built-in radio. Very cool stuff. I just paid $5.50 so I could get my favorite ring tone, Bittersweet Symphony on the phone. Talk about a Optus Zoo sham. Worse, its not even the tune that I wanted, but a twenty second MP3 rip!
And the camera phone, probably the reason I went with this, is just amazing. The photo quality is great. Its got more megapixels than my first digital camera. Technology has come far!
Quirk: once I’ve locked the keypad, and open the camera, it takes a while before all things start working. This is with the radio playing in the background.
Anyways, more after some playing. In other notes, I’m sick. High fever, flu, and its really hot outside. Sigh.
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Meling Mudin: levenshtein distance and html content comparison
Posted: October 6th, 2006, 11:20am BST by spoonfork
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dear l33t readers,
i’m writing a (currently simple) ruby script that posts random values to html form variables, and checking the results. each value may give different results. so what i want to do is calculate the difference between the results so that i can group them together. to do this, i perform a post with defined values and set this as a baseline to be used as a comparison for the next post (the result of the first post is sort of like a ’signature’ for the web page). and then i start posting data, and calculate the difference with the initial baseline. this can be done by levenshtien distance. unfortunately, my test scripts runs extremely slow*, and i have no idea on how to speed up the operation (one way is to use curl and use my ruby script to calculate the distance).
i can continue with this, but i’m wondering if there are better alternatives. so got one?
* it runs slow simply because i’m comparing tons of strings… maybe i should just strip the html tag…