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Yesterday Firefox 3.5 was released, and few hours later it was in the Portstree. But I see that some pepole can’t right read. So Please READ the pkg-messages carefully: Firefox 3.5 and HTML5 Certain functions used to display HTML5 elements need the sem module. If your Firefox crashes with the following message while viewing a HTML5 page: “Bad system call (core dumped)” you need [...]

Small note I just committed nspr and Firefox 3.5 RC3 to the portstree. Please read UPDATING carefully befor you blame us. Happy Testing!

As pleasures go, it is a strange yet somewhat refined one to see a project one has started pick up speed. My fellow translators at the Greek documentation team of FreeBSD have been busy lately, and the result of our collective work is a fairly large number of commits to the “doc-el” repository. There are [...]

A brief in discussion on the freebsd-ports thread convinced me to change my proposal from i18n to internationalization, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055475.html

I will await further potential feedback, Friday will mark one week since I made the original post. At that time, I will get my act together and take my proposal to portmgr@.

Stay tuned.

Thanks to the work of Romain Tartiere, the FreeBSD ports of mono have just been updated to the latest stable version (2.4). I expect a few more C# ports to appear soonish! hint gnome-do hint Source Share and Enjoy:

The following is from a report on 60 Minutes II back in October of 2002.  NITV is a California based Iranian-American TV station carried internationally via satellite with viewership in Iran.

And the mullahs really couldn’t take what NITV did on Sept. 11. Hours after the attacks, Zia [Ataby] took to the air with a message for Iranian youth: “To show your feeling and share your feelings with American people, come to the Mossani square in Tehran and bring your candle.”

They brought their candles and their voices, shouting, ”Death to terrorists.” Six thousand demonstrators were called to the streets of Tehran by Zia Atabay in North Hollywood, the only show of support for America in the Islamic world.

Note: I’ve tried searching for video of the orignal report but cannot find it.  If anyone can help me out with that it would be pretty sweet.  Thanks.

Update: Only article I was able to find on the event filed when it occured.

Just because life is not complicated enough, I opened up a can of worms by proposing a new ports category for the internationalisation/localisation effort.

It is my hopes to move all the *i18n* and *l10n* ports out of the misc category to their new home.

Please, please, please, if you have an opinion, pro or con to this proposal, check out my original post, http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-June/055412.html
and reply to it via the ports@ mailing list.