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Sobre terminología inapropiada

Me pregunto cómo habrán traducido en Microsoft a los «charms» (botones que aparecen en una barra lateral en la pantalla en Windows 8). Me imagino las instrucciones en la documentación: «Haga clic en el...

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¿Usas LibreOffice en español? Ayúdame a mejorar la traducción

Desde que me uní a LibreOffice para ayudar en los esfuerzos de traducción (gracias a Andras Timar de SUSE), parece que soy el único ser vivo trabajando en la traducción al español de la IU y la ayuda...

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Google+ ≠ Facebook

Entro a Facebook y salgo malhumorado. Entro a Google+ y salgo o: indiferente leyendo unos enlaces interesantísimos, o metido en conversaciones con desconocidos (que no contienen ni un asomo de «xD» y...

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A human-made translation should be a human right

Maybe the maintainer of gMTP thought that this was a good idea. Well, it isn’t. Please, please, please, DON’T do this! By the way, this isn’t just a complaint. I like to fix things, so I tried to...

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Open source wins, as always: Ubuntu Software Center in Fedora/OpenSUSE

This was one exciting Google Summer of Code project (spotted by Mikkel Kamstrup) that I can only applaud: the porting of Ubuntu Software Center to PackageKit! Please see the original post for more...

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Amazuntu might not be legal in Europe

It’s good to see that I’m not the only one worried about the legality of the Unity Shopping lens, which is —IMHO— the most useless piece of software developed for Ubuntu.

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12.10 #QuantalMX release party!

The Ubuntu-MX LoCo team and the Ubuntu-DF community have ironed out differences and are proud to announce they will organize a release party together, on October 27! For more details, check out the...

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Capital Sharp S for the Ubuntu typeface

  This is my first attempt at creating an additional glyph for the Ubuntu Font Family. I was checking out this bug report and decided to create the missing glyph. Any typophiles out there? Which is...

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Please

Richard Stallman: stop hurting and dividing Linux communities. Stop your harshness. Stop exaggerating and creating FUD. To be clear: I have critiziced the Shopping Lens before (as I think it’s...

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Ubuntu-MX is now an approved LoCo team!

I can’t say “thanks” enough times to the LoCo Council! Now, we just need to be more organized and less nervous. BTW, congratulations to Ubuntu-ZA, which was also approved today.

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The price of translation - why is it like buying a second-hand car? #xl8

Reblogged from The translation business: What comes to mind when you think about used car salesmen? The words "sleazy", "disreputable", "untrustworthy" or "con man" perhaps? Of course, this assessment...

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He escrito en el blog de GNU/Linux LatAm sobre mis razones para colaborar con LibreOffice sin recibir ni un centavo por ello; y en Delanover sobre cómo puedes crear contraseñas más seguras.

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¿En serio Microsoft le pagó a estos traductores?

Me dio por instalar el horripilante Windows 8 en mi equipo, y he quedado sorprendido al descubrir —en la primera hora de uso— un montón de errores ortográficos. Y ya no menciono la inconsistencia en el...

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Where have all the good advertisers gone?

Microsoft and its “Scroogled!” campaign remind me of the Free Software Foundation a lot. Both are falling into oblivion, both are doing nothing to support some of their project, and both are topic of...

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Hécate, no trif…

Hécate, no triforme, mas llena, pródiga de candores asoma; trémula no en tu frente se oculta, fúlgida su esplendor desemboza. ―Lámina sirva el Cielo al retrato, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Fragmento

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Re: “An Ubuntu Community that is a Community”

(Disclaimer: This is a knee-jerk reaction to this post. I need to register to that stupid blog system to comment, so I preferred to respond here.) No, Jonathan, I’m [1] not dead. If I sometimes don’t...

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Una nueva guía de estilo y terminología

Estoy pensando en crear una guía de estilo básica para quienes quieran colaborar con la traducción de LibreOffice, si es que queda alguno . Lo que más quiero en este momento es cambiar «fuente», que no...

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Abreviaturas, siglas, acrónimos y símbolos

Reblogged from Por una lengua congruente: En la escritura siempre llega el momento en que se necesita acortar, reducir o hacer breves las palabras y expresiones para decir mucho con poco; sin embargo,...

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Please don’t add pointless comments to bug reports

I generally dislike when someone wants to drag attention from public over such a small nitpick, because it produces a lot of unproductive and annoying noise to bug subscribers; and that’s exactly what...

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Interesting reads today

“Open source is not a warzone. Not every man is a dick.” A lovely essay from Perl girls, I truly enjoyed reading it. “The water we swim in.” Valorie has nailed it with this: “most of the people...

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