Developers' Blogs: IroNiQ

Yesterday evening i decided to search and implement a new anti-spam thing. I didn't know which one should be useful, but i've had idea. I decided previously to implement somehow the captcha security. After some searching i've found a nice plugin to this blog engine. I decided to include this. After some hacking the security is now working. Maybe not so nice, but working and this is the most important for me.

I've been working on Thunderbird language packs for a week. I've tried many things to get working them - without any result. I searched many things with google, i've been looking through Mozilla Wiki, Mozillazine, Mozillazine Forum, but cannot find any usable docs how can man create a usable langpack for any linux distribution. They cannot believe that i'll create separate localized tbird for every language (15MB would be each pkg).
Yesterday I've created a splash engine for xfce4. This is based on "Simple" engine by Benedikt Meurer. This Frugalware Splash Engine is the default splash engine till yesterday (thanks nadfoka for the image).

Today the main server - called "genesis" - was changed to the new one. The downtime lasted about 1hour. This time we did some upgrade. The new server's response time is much better than the old one. Thanks for all of the donators.

The new main server was under a big memtest that ended this morning (i switched off the machine). The result is quiet good: the memtest was running more then 120 hours without error. The contact was informed that we'd like to replace the old genesis to the new one. Currently we are waiting for a contact time when we can do the change.

Today I'll get my "new" dell machine, a p3 1GHz one. This will be my test suite. I'll test and create the fwlive on it, i'll test raid installs and so on.
On this weekend I'll run a whole-weekend memtest on genesis-ng. If everything will be OK, we'll change the current machine. We're thinking about the current machnine's destiny. Maybe it will be a new buildserver, maybe just a spare server.
Finally the maintainer teams are created so I'm back to maintain packages. One of my first things was to ignore some "error" messages in apache's init script (if there's an error, just search for it in the error log. you can't read as fast as the init scripts are running). My next thing was to create the thunderbird 1.5 package. Currently it's ready for x86_64, now i'll create the i686 package.
The coding of the new homepage is a bit "stalled", because i've had lots of other things (such as pkg maintaining, server testing and so on). Maybe next week I can continue it.

As some people know, i started to create the new webpage of Frugalware Linux. The lookup is ready and everything is generated by a php code. Now supports gettext-based locales, so the translation can be much more easy and unified. The site is absolutly table-free, based on divs and css stylesheets. That's why the site looks good from graphical browsers. The site looks like same in almost all of the browsers: firefox, ie, safari and konqueror (that were tested). In opera there's a very small positioning problem, but i cannot create workaround for it. The css is cleaned by boobaa so many thanks for it.

The site is available here: http://www2.frugalware.org.

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