Leonardo Fontenelle

I used to leave the computer working constantly, mainly to contribute to project Folding@Home (Fórum PCs team). Some days ago, however, Augusto Campos reported a 30% reduction in the electricity bill simply by not leaving the computer turned on 24/7 anymore. I tried putting my computer to hibernate, but my video card’s proprietary driver was impairing X restoration. I replaced it with the free driver, and since then I’m much happier for many reasons.

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I’d like to encourage free software users to, when appropriate, get in touch with developers to ask for enhancements or report errors (”bugs”). Yes, sometimes it takes too long to get an answer. But today I’ll tell you two experiences I had, with a much better result than I expected initially.

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I believe this is the shortest description ever about the process of translating GNOME to Brazilian Portuguese. For more information, read our project page (in Portuguese) or drop by the #tradutores channel at FreeNode.net.

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As promised some weeks ago, I did some updates here. I improved the Aqueous Lite theme to support translation and some optional plugins. English readers won’t notice much difference, unless they click in the link for the Portuguese language. I also updated WordPress and the Gengo plugin to solve some broken links, but unfortunately the “next page” and “previous page” links are not working yet. When the issue is fixed, I’ll make the new theme version available.

I also made some changes in the social networks part. The side bar is now simpler, the only chicklets being Technorati and the Brazilian counterpart BlogBlogs. I still own the individual articles buttons to let people add them to sites like del.icio.us and digg.