[frgeek-michiana] Thursday WH report; Febuary 18, 2010

  • From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:42:09 -0500 (EST)

I opened the warehouse at 5:45PM

Volunteers attending: Adrian, Dan, Mike 

Testing results on the two systems for Carol: 

HP Computer: Was unable to get sound to work. Ran out of time to work on it as 
we were also working on the Spanish language setups. 

Gateway Computer: Changed cdrom drive twice will still not open reliably, or in 
some cases at all. Otherwise the system seems to be OK.

Spanish language localization: Adrian and I logged in using Spanish-Mexican. 
Most things seemed to be OK, however, it does not appear that the Vector Linux 
people did anything to localize any of the bash scripts like VASM. In addition 
some of the programs also do not appear to support the language env variables. 
Adrian translated the menu for VASM and I modified the script so it would work 
from the desktop and put it on the HP systems root desktop if you run it is 
will show a Spanish root menu. The changes are hardcoded into the script so I 
didn't want to mess with the VASM script in /sbin. I will look for a better 
solution the the bash script problem. The quick and dirty solution would be to 
code a conditional statement into the bash scripts to switch to Spanish if the 
LANG env variable is set to Spanish and remain in English otherwise. The ideal 
solution would be to recode all the user interactive scripts to use GNU gettext 
to support full localization. I have installed VL 6.0 on a test system at home 
and will work on the scripts over the coming weekend where I have Internet 
access. I will probably take the quick and dirty approach for now unless 
gettext looks like it will work easier. 

Dan worked hard on installing Vector 6.0 on several systems, but cdrom and hard 
drive problems prevented him from completing any of the systems.

Adrian had to leave at 8:00. Dan and I stayed until 8:30 modifying the VASM 
script and sorting out problems. I also assisted Dan with installing Puppy 
Linux on his laptop.

Thank you to all who attended!

Mike

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