Superfish, activated on click

Or, onclick, as people say. (This is Google fodder, so I include alternative spellings of clicking – there I go a third time.) I just want you to know that this one person released a great fix, a patch really, for Superfish. Superfish? Oh, it’s like a better Suckerfish. Still gibberish? There’s a website with examples of this fine menu.

Patch to make onClick activation happen. The mysterious jardeeq includes friendly instructions on how to upgrade one of your Superfish files to make this work. (I tracked that person down, and sent fanmail.)

Once, the Swedish monarch, talking about unemployed people, uttered the words: “People should not expect fried sparvar to fly into their mouths.” Sparvar, it turns out, is a Swedish folk word, a non-Linneaus grouping of small birds. Closest thing we get in English is passerine. Hardly as snappy.

Today, that fine Czech Open Source patcher sent some fried sparvar into my mouth.

BarCamp in Copenhagen, again!

OK, it is that time of the year: you get to be in a grand group of interesting people, and doing a micropresentation (on anything!).

BarCamps are everywhere, and this, the third one, on Saturday 22 November, should be excellent. Go to the BarCamp Copenhagen page, and sign up for it. I’ll be there.

A special, from-10-o’clock extra session has been organized by Kim Bach and Mark Wubben, so if you are going to that, please tell them, via Kim’s firstname.lastname@gmail.com. OK, then. See you!

Service message: etch

I think I’m now running on Debian Etch.

Had to coment out a line doing a wrong check in an important Perl module: Errno.pm. Via this. But now I’m up again, at least.

Good to be back. Ciao for now. Tomorrow: the workdaily training 7-8 AM. Stay curious!

Open Source book on Open Source Hardware?

Went to the post office to pick up a book. Open Source Hardware Vol. 1 arrived today. Well-wrought, and shaped like a Gary Larson album.

Wow. Page 173 says the book will be an open source project, an editable wiki, where you can edit and add to it. Projects at Liquidware seems like a good resource. Like Instructables, but Arduino-only.

(By the way: Larson’s famous. Real fame. Neologism-spawning fame. Proof: thagomizer.)

The other Fedora

In case you were wondering about “Mark Leggot’s project”, Islandora, the Drupal-based frontend for the other one that was supposed to be “a repository for every kind of human knowledge”, which was also capable of transforming its contents to any current useful format: Fedora Commons is its website.

Fedora refers to the Flexible Extensible Digital Repository Object Architecture, under which name repository management software has been publicly available since 1998.

Librarians, check it out.

Fallout Fandom

Never since… very long ago did I have a cultural product to long for. Computer game Fallout 3 has been one of those products. And it seems to be well worth the wait.

Had it put aside yesterday, and today, the game’s Euro release date, I picked it up. Fanboy economy at work.

“Review” after 2 hours play: it’s a bit like Bioshock, but with more gotta-catch-em-all gameplay. A bit “Morrowindy“. I’m no hater, though. Just a bit tired.