Lovechild
October 15th, 2005, 03:05 AM
So yesterday I was going to an old friends house to set up a wireless network and during this relatively painfree process she started talking about needing to buy a laptop for her mother.
Now her mother lives in Iceland, and they wanted to buy a laptop here in Denmark and bring it up to her - that caused the following problems, no vendor appeared to have icelandic layout keyboards on stock - easy fix is that not many keys differ from the danish layout so one just orders a set of sticky tape layout things and problem solved.
Second problem was much harder, getting Windows in said language - since the poor woman doesn't speak Danish, nor reads english very well - and who could have blamed her, at youngful 70 you just don't bother with these things. So one pondered for a while and the answer popped right into ones head.. Ubuntu, here we could just change the layout of the keyboard with one swift setting - very handy, and I was sure it was available in Icelandic.. much to my disappointment though, GNOME stats showed that 2.12 was only at 17.7% translated.
Quick to think I showed my friend Rosetta, and offered that I would teach her and her icelandic friends how to translate software using this very cool tool - she was amazed at how easy it looked and quickly agreed to ask around with all her friends to set up a date for said tutoring session.
So in one afternoon, I got my hair cut, setup my first wireless network, converted a user to Linux.. and potentially started a translation team.
How cool is that?
Now her mother lives in Iceland, and they wanted to buy a laptop here in Denmark and bring it up to her - that caused the following problems, no vendor appeared to have icelandic layout keyboards on stock - easy fix is that not many keys differ from the danish layout so one just orders a set of sticky tape layout things and problem solved.
Second problem was much harder, getting Windows in said language - since the poor woman doesn't speak Danish, nor reads english very well - and who could have blamed her, at youngful 70 you just don't bother with these things. So one pondered for a while and the answer popped right into ones head.. Ubuntu, here we could just change the layout of the keyboard with one swift setting - very handy, and I was sure it was available in Icelandic.. much to my disappointment though, GNOME stats showed that 2.12 was only at 17.7% translated.
Quick to think I showed my friend Rosetta, and offered that I would teach her and her icelandic friends how to translate software using this very cool tool - she was amazed at how easy it looked and quickly agreed to ask around with all her friends to set up a date for said tutoring session.
So in one afternoon, I got my hair cut, setup my first wireless network, converted a user to Linux.. and potentially started a translation team.
How cool is that?