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peter_severinon Beautiful HTML5 "Sublime" Video Player

There is also a second Dartmoor video on James Watson's site. It uses the music by Javier Navarrete from "Pan's Labyrinth" film.

peter_severinon Why you should use English versions of your OS and other software

I use Ubuntu in French and I find the translations to be in a pretty good shape. When I get an error message then I just use the command line to launch the same program in English: LC_ALL=en_US program. Works pretty well.

Recently I switched my parents to a Romanian version of Ubuntu and I was pretty disappointed with the state of translations. Bad wording, inconsistent translations, partial translations etc. But English is not an option for my parents. For now I try to identify translation problems and contribute patches to fix them.

peter_severinon Thunderbird 3 released

I am using Thunderbird with Gmail through IMAP. No need to backup anything. On the other hand I find it hard to do certain tasks using web interface.

peter_severinon The rise of Xavier Niel says a lot about French business

For 29,99€ you get:

28 mbit/s Free calling to 90 nations HDTV 100 channels and more pay channels Video on demand remote access to the video recorder Access to 3 million wifi spots in the country

peter_severinon Wolfram Alpha Live

My first search was "google" which sent the CPU to the skies. Had to kill Firefox.