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I got my free Signing Stick this week, paid by the Luxembourgish government. I can now identify myself on public service websites as well as digitally sign all my mails and documents.
Unfortunately, I ran into a few problems when I tried to activate it on my Ubuntu machine. After a few tries and an unsuccessful call to the helpdesk, I finally got it to work. Here’s a small step-by-step guide:
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As of today, the Luxembourgish spellchecking dictionary as well as the thesaurus are finally available for download on spellchecker.lu. There are packages for OpenOffice.org 2 and 3 as well as for Mozilla Firefox 3 and Mozilla Thunderbird. Additionaly, there is an Ubuntu package as well as a plugin for OOo that checks for a phonological rule called the “Eifeler Regel”, which is specific to Luxembourgish.
I recently made a trip to Munich to visit Marc and Philip. I’ve never been to Munich before, so it was quite interesting. The photo gallery that I set up contains a few impressions that I captured during the three days that I stayed there. Among other things, I visited the Olympiapark, the BMW-Welt, the English Garden, the Garching Campus of the Technical University of Munich as well as several parts of the inner city.
De Moien hat ech op der Uni Lëtzebuerg op Invitatioun vum Prof. Dr. Peter Gilles e Virtrag iwwer Spellchecker.lu. Nieft enger klenger Introduktioun (Wat ass spellchecker.lu?) an enger Demonstratioun vum Online-Checker a vun der OpenOffice-Integratioun, sinn ech och op technesch Detailer agaangen (Wéi ass d’Wierderlëscht erstallt ginn, wat fir Problemer sinn opgetratt, wéi kann ee feststellen ob en Text Lëtzebuergesch ass, …?).
Download:
- Presentatioun Spellchecker.lu (PDF fir um Schierm ze kucken)
- Presentatioun Spellchecker.lu (PDF fir auszedrocken)
As of today, the new version of spellchecker.lu is online. Because of my university studies the experimental beta phase has lasted longer than planned. But after almost exactly two years after the initial release, the free spellchecker for Luxembourgish now has a new website, a nicer logo, an improved online checker as well as a thesaurus (synonym dictionary).
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TinyMCE 3.0.8 as well as an updated spellchecker plugin have been released. If you use the spellchecker plugin with the PSpellShell engine you should upgrade as soon as possible. I discovered a serious security issue which has been fixed in the new version. My enchant plugin is now also included by default. A changelog is available here.
TinyMCE (my favourite WYSIWYG editor) comes with a very nice spellchecker plugin. As the supported spellchecking engines were not powerful enough for my needs, I decided to modify the plugin so it supports the enchant library and thus a large number of spellchecking engines.
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For the upcoming version of the online spellchecker for spellchecker.lu I decided to use a combination of enchant/hunspell as the core spellchecking engine. However, the versions of libenchant and hunspell that come with the new Ubuntu 8.4 are not really up-to-date, so I compiled my own versions. As a reference for myself, this is a small howto:
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After waiting about 10 weeks I finally got my brand new car: a Škoda Fabia Greenline (1.4 TDI DPF/59 kW). As its name suggests it is designed to be economical and environmentally-friendly. Its CO2 emissions do not exceed 109 g/km while only consuming 4.1l/100km (that is, according to the ads). Continue reading ‘Škoda Fabia Greenline’
CASES-Communiqué: Äntwert vum Minister Jeannot Krecké
Virun e puer Wochen hat ech iwwert e Communiqué vum CASES-Service an iwwert d’Reaktioun an der Chamber geschriwwen. Virun enger knapper Woch ass elo eng Äntwert vum zoustännege Minister Jeannot Krecké komm. Wéi ugekënnegt dofir hei e puer Auszich aus sénger Äntwert (ouni Commentaire, meng Meenung hunn ech schon an deenen zwee aneren posts ausgedréckt):
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