The other day I looked into switching away from synergy to Mango Lassi. I only use it between two machines, so I figured my use case was simple enough that it should work at this stage. I was not disappointed. I was getting some very strange behavior with synergy and vmware, and Mango Lassi has none of that. Plus it gives an OSD telling you which machine the mouse/keyboard are being used on, which is a nice perk.

Anyway, I was so happy with it that I made packages for openSUSE. You can get it from my build service repository.

Dear FOSDEM 2008 attendees,

Unfortunately I couldn't go to FOSDEM 2008. I can't either find much photos available on the Internet nor videos at all. So... I'm begging you to upload some photos and videos from FOSDEM 2008, specially from the openSUSE booth and talks.


Best regards,
Carlos Gonçalves

Finally, I found some time to update my virtual machine, Kubuntu from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon. I didn't before because I had to resize the virtual disk, the empty space didn't allow me to do the update. So, the necessary steps are here:

1. resize the virtual disk with:

vmware-vdiskmanager -t 1 -x 12GB KUbuntu.vmdk

the options for command are:
t 1 - growable virtual disk split in 2Gb files
x 12 -GB the new size for disk

2. Now we have a large virtual disk but we still need some work to have also a bigger disk in Kubuntu. So, change in bios, for virtual machine to boot from cd in order to resize also the ext3 partition. I used Knoppix for this task and Gparted as application.
3. Reboot and change in bios to boot from hdd.
4. Using Adept as is described on Kubuntu site do the update. After about 1 hour I had the last version of Kubuntu installed and a lot of free space.

This weekend we are in Bremen, so here are some images with our Saturday dinner and Sunday lunch.

The dinner to Amico restaurant:

The lunch, Sunday, was to Sailor's Inn Restaurant:

I can say that the food was great ...

If you want to see some photos during our short visit in Bremen feel free to visit my flickr page.

<define name="paragraph-content" combine="choice">
 <choice>
  <element name="field:fieldmark">
   <attribute name="text:name">
    <ref name="string"/>
   </attribute>
   <attribute name="field:type">
    <ref name="namespacedToken"/>
   </attribute>
   <attribute name="field:locked">
    <ref name="boolean"/>
   </attribute>
         <sequence>
        <ref name="fieldmark-parameter"/>
        <zeroOrMore>
       <ref name="paragraph-content"/>
        </zeroOrMore>  
         <sequence>
     </element>
  <element name="field:fieldmark-start">
   <attribute name="text:name">
    <ref name="string"/>
   </attribute>
   <attribute name="field:type">
    <ref name="namespacedToken"/>
   </attribute>
   <attribute name="field:locked">
    <ref name="boolean"/>
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      <ref name="fieldmark-parameter"/>
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  <element name="text:fieldmark-end">
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</define>

• a name (text:name); similar to the name of text:bookmark elements. They SHOULD be unique. (Preferably also with the bookmark names).
• a type (field:type) which allows application to define the type of the fieldmark.
• a sequence of associated (name, value) pair represented by the <field:param field:name=”string” field:value=”string”/>.
• a locked attribute which specifies whether the user can edit the content or not.

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   <w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">Title: </w:t></w:r>
   <w:bookmarkStart w:id="0" w:name="Text1"/>
   <w:r>
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin">
       <w:ffData>
         <w:name w:val="Text1"/>
         <w:statusText w:type="text" w:val="Just a sample field."/>
         <w:textInput/>
       </w:ffData>
     </w:fldChar>
     <w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> FORMTEXT </w:instrText>
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="separate"/>
     <w:t xml:space="preserve">A sample input.</w:t>
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/>
   </w:r>
   <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="0"/>
 </w:p>
 <w:p>
   <w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve">Description: </w:t></w:r>
   <w:bookmarkStart w:id="1" w:name="Text2"/>
   <w:r w:rsidR="00FA39C2">
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin">
       <w:ffData>
         <w:name w:val="Text2"/>
         <w:statusText w:type="text" w:val="Yet another sample field..."/>
         <w:textInput/>
       </w:ffData>
     </w:fldChar>
     <w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> FORMTEXT </w:instrText>
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="separate"/>
     <w:t>A sample input.</w:t>
   </w:r>
 </w:p>
 <w:p>
   <w:r><w:t>Second sample input paragraph.</w:t></w:r>
   <w:r><w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/></w:r>
   <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="1"/>
 </w:p>
 <w:bookmarkStart w:id="2" w:name="Check1"/>
 <w:p>
   <w:r>
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="begin">
       <w:ffData>
         <w:name w:val="Check1"/>
         <w:statusText w:type="text" w:val="A sample checkbox..."/>
         <w:checkBox>
           <w:checked/>
         </w:checkBox>
       </w:ffData>
     </w:fldChar>
     <w:instrText xml:space="preserve"> FORMCHECKBOX </w:instrText>
     <w:fldChar w:fldCharType="end"/>
   </w:r>
   <w:bookmarkEnd w:id="2"/>
   <w:r><w:t xml:space="preserve"> Make sense?</w:t></w:r>
 </w:p>

 
   <text:p>Title: <field:fieldmark-start text:name="Text1" field:type="ecma.office-open-xml.field.FORMTEXT"><field:param field:name="Description" field:value="Just a sample field."/></field:fieldmark-start>A sample input.<field:fieldmark-end/></text:p>
   <text:p>Description: <field:fieldmark-start text:name="Text2" field:type="ecma.office-open-xml.field.FORMTEXT"><field:param field:name="Description" field:value="Yet another sample field..."/></field:fieldmark-start>A sample input.</text:p>
   <text:p>Second sample input paragraph.<field:fieldmark-end/></text:p>
   <text:p><field:fieldmark text:name="Check1" field:type="ecma.office-open-xml.field.FORMCHECKBOX"><field:param field:name="Description" field:value="A sample checkbox..."/><field:param field:name="Result" field:value="1"/></field:fieldmark><text:s/>Make sense?</text:p>