On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:11:48PM -0500, John wrote:
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On Thursday 22 May 2003 22:49, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Are these guys at the UN stupid or what?
Them too, most probably... ;)
Going from what RØmer said "We need a system, which is safe and can operate in 11 languages - soon 20," , they didn't even look at a linux distro or even try one. I mean hell mabel, how many languages does Linux support...at least 20 isn't it?
Probably. I don't know how good it is with multiple languages in parallel, and in fact I don't even know how good or bad the danish translations are. This is because I don't use those translations, and *that* is because I was subjected to windows early on. And I gotta tell you, the danish translations of windows system messages are insane. "In the beginning" I was mystified completely, as to what said messages were supposed to tell me, until I realized that it was a simple matter of reverse-engineering the translation method: Take each word, one at a time, look 'em up in a dictionary, and string 'em together. Problem is, of course, that this method completely detroys the payload. Now, combine that with mumbojumbo characteristics of M$ system essages, that don't make any sense in the *first* place, and what you get might as well be replaced by one single "Grand Unified Error Message" -and one that *should* be easy enough to tranlate: "Your Mileage May Vary" <OK> <YES> <ACCEPT> So in the end I decided to keep my systems speaking english, and I've never looked back.
And what does he mean by "safe"?
I suspect that this is completely unrelated to *computer* security. I think one should probably think in terms of "comfort zone" and "don't rock the boat" instead... MNSO Jon Clausen -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!