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A customer recently hired us to develop an iCal export for the Dokeos agenda tool.

That's it, you can officially download the videoconference tool, in its second version, from the Dokeos website's download page

During the 3 coming days, I will be developing a feature for Dokeos that allows a Dokeos administrator to add data to users' profiles. For example, you will be able to add an age (or better, a date of birth), a sex, a mother tongue, etc. Whatever you want, basically. Once these fields are setup and filled, you will be able to limit the statistic results to only a subset of users (i.e.

This week-end, in an unprecedented funny mood swing, SourceForge decided to make all passwords expired, which means that if you try to commit something to your SVN (and I guess CVS) repository, you will be asked for your password, which will then be refused without much of an explanation in SVN itself. You have to log on to www.sourceforge.net and change your password there. Only then will you be able to update SVN. Oh, and you have to wait for about 10 minutes in some cases for the change to take place.

Next week (from 2008-03-10 to 2008-03-14), the Linux Week event is taking place in Lima.

I did a little show on the Dokeos community and how to contribute to Dokeos today, at the Involucrate+ GNOME event in Lima, in the Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega.

Dokeos is now entering the world of large medical and pharmaceutical companies. We are glad to finally getting to this step in our software evolution.

In one of my parallel tasks, I have been asked to help tuning an OTRS installation for a small belgian association.

VLC player is (in my view) by far the most practical and complete DVD player for Ubuntu. There is not one DVD I haven't been able to play on my computer since I started using VLC. Recently, however, after a low level clean-up of my Ubuntu packages, VLC player has been showing a very strange symptom: the video is was moving back and forth continuously on a half-a-second slice, while still playing ahead and the sound still being alright. Anyway, the only way to fix it was to go to the Preferences panel (inside Settings menu), Video, Output modules, tick Advanced options.

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For those having problems with more recent versions of Eclipse, I
recommend reading my other article on this blog and more importantly
the header note for a non-Ubuntu solution.

To make a long story short, it doesn't work (at least in this versions combination)... I've tried it many time with any combination of attached plugins installed or not, with GCJ instead of Java 1.6, but it always coms out w