The dired buffer then becomes completely editable like a normal text buffer, so you can bulk change filenames, permissions etc., and on save it applies all the changes.
I second the unison / Maildir solution, I use that since years to sync my mail between my server and laptop. Most of the time I use the laptop to read mail, but occasionally I ssh to the server and read my mail there directly. unison does a two way sync so this allows me to do modifications like moving mails into different folders on the laptop when it is offline, and at the same time modify other mails on the server, and when the laptop goes online again it will sync automatically. Wonderful.
Also it turned out to be helpful to include the.alias,.muttrc,.signature files etc. in the sync to keep all mail related settings the same on the synced machines.
Yet another one:
tclwebtest. Haven't gotten around to announce it on freshmeat yet since it's too unfinished in many regards, but it proved useful in a bunch of projects already.
Thanks. Yes, learning spanish is one of the more important TODO items before volunteering can seriously be considered;-)
At least some general linux links. Found another one, this time in Ghana: http://www.geekhalla.org/ - looks very cool, just that I am more interested in these kind of projects in south america.
iirc a major reason why the previously planned introduction of linux to mexican schools failed was that there were not enough skilled people to manage the rollout.
I wonder if there are any projects that organize volunteer help for free software related work in south america. I would welcome a possibility to spend half a year or more as a volunteer in a south american country, doing stuff that I am skilled at and that is fun (e.g. installing linux all the time;-).
Something like this http://www.ganeshas-project.org is doing for schools in Nepal (although the website has not been updated for months, hopefully they have not all been eaten by yaks).
The project consists of three volunteers that flew to Nepal a few weeks ago and several others that assist them remotely from here in Berlin.
Their mission is to build a network infrastructure in a particular Nepalese school and teach the kids how to make use of it, utilizing mostly donated hardware and open source software.
Their training will hopefully enable some of the kids to become admins on their own and to further transfer the knowledge to more people in Nepal.
For my mini-freelancing business I need to occasionally write business
stuff such as offers and invoices. What I have been looking for
without success in the last days is a collection of some simple, free DTD's and
ideally some accompanying XSL Stylesheets for business letters.
I am familiar with docbook/emacs/psgml. Just thought there might be
something that is to simple business letters the same that docbook
is to documentation. There is also this minor-mode for emacs that
looks very promising: xslt-process - it
would make sense to use emacs with this for correspondence to have
automatically pdf's generated.
What I'd need is much less sophisticated then docbook though, just
something that intelligently suggests some tags for - in the case of
an invoice - items, price, customer etc.
Any hints anybody? Somebody have fragments of such stuff lying around?
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From a dired buffer:
M-x wdired-change-to-wdired-mode
The dired buffer then becomes completely editable like a normal text buffer, so you can bulk change filenames, permissions etc., and on save it applies all the changes.
I second the unison / Maildir solution, I use that since years to sync my mail between my server and laptop. Most of the time I use the laptop to read mail, but occasionally I ssh to the server and read my mail there directly. unison does a two way sync so this allows me to do modifications like moving mails into different folders on the laptop when it is offline, and at the same time modify other mails on the server, and when the laptop goes online again it will sync automatically. Wonderful.
.alias, .muttrc, .signature files etc. in the sync to keep all mail related settings the same on the synced machines.
Also it turned out to be helpful to include the
Yet another one: tclwebtest. Haven't gotten around to announce it on freshmeat yet since it's too unfinished in many regards, but it proved useful in a bunch of projects already.
Thanks. Yes, learning spanish is one of the more important TODO items before volunteering can seriously be considered ;-)
At least some general linux links.
Found another one, this time in Ghana: http://www.geekhalla.org/ - looks very cool, just that I am more interested in these kind of projects in south america.
I wonder if there are any projects that organize volunteer help for free software related work in south america. I would welcome a possibility to spend half a year or more as a volunteer in a south american country, doing stuff that I am skilled at and that is fun (e.g. installing linux all the time ;-).
Something like this http://www.ganeshas-project.org is doing for schools in Nepal (although the website has not been updated for months, hopefully they have not all been eaten by yaks).
Any pointers highly appreciated.
The project consists of three volunteers that flew to Nepal a few weeks ago and several others that assist them remotely from here in Berlin.
Their mission is to build a network infrastructure in a particular Nepalese school and teach the kids how to make use of it, utilizing mostly donated hardware and open source software.
Their training will hopefully enable some of the kids to become admins on their own and to further transfer the knowledge to more people in Nepal.
For my mini-freelancing business I need to occasionally write business stuff such as offers and invoices. What I have been looking for without success in the last days is a collection of some simple, free DTD's and ideally some accompanying XSL Stylesheets for business letters.
I am familiar with docbook/emacs/psgml. Just thought there might be something that is to simple business letters the same that docbook is to documentation. There is also this minor-mode for emacs that looks very promising: xslt-process - it would make sense to use emacs with this for correspondence to have automatically pdf's generated.
What I'd need is much less sophisticated then docbook though, just something that intelligently suggests some tags for - in the case of an invoice - items, price, customer etc.
Any hints anybody? Somebody have fragments of such stuff lying around?
The tigris project seems to be another one. They host some projects, but I think their emphasis is on development of oss development tools.
it is even easier to type this directly in the properties dialog of the launcher;
/path/to/mozilla/package; ./run-mozilla.sh
cd