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day 28

Work from Real-Home Friday!!!!! Though Fridays are work from home fridays, I went back to my home of origin in nyc for the weekend and worked from there. I spent most of today figuring out how áccént márks and special ñ characters could be typed into the the spanish versio n of [lemonade stand.](https://github.co ...

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Day 27

Breakthroughs and Revelations Day two of El Puesto de Limonada(pic related). Previously on Fortnight's FOSS... -> The internet gave me this -> Qalthos explained the part about genpot and that I had to translate [this file, Lemonade.pot.](http://paste.fedoraproject.org/23281 ...

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Day 26

Midterm Powows Today I started the ticket of creating a Spanish version of Lemonade Stand. Yesterday I called it El Puesto de Limonada, after this picture. So I started off by googling "XO Laptop GetText" and hitting up the first result. As it instructed, I went through the code for Lemonade Stand and made each message script be convertible, like so: "This ...

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Day 25

Merry Christmas! Today it is not christmas, but it is day 25 of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and of my time in the FOSSbox. For some reason though, whenever I hear the number 25 in accordance with calendars and/or day tracking, my first thought is of Christmas. Regardless, for this week I will take a much needed break from slamming my head against the wall for school servers, so to speak. Today [LMacken](https:/ ...

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Day 24

Another Work From Home Friday! So today I set out to install the 0.7 edition of school server on the XO laptop that I've been messing around on. I followed these instructions. To install it on an XO though, I would need to Install it from USB. I had some trouble setting up the boot usb: The script kept saying that I needed to unmount the drive after checking to ...

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Day 23

A Discovery!!!!!!!!! So today I talked with veteran FOSSboxer Qalthos, code wizard. Though he wasn't in the FOSSbox this week until today, he's been working on school server stuff as well. Previously, while I've been making a fool of myself, he set up a school server on a virtual machine on his laptop, only to have it be unpingable. Then he set one up on some virtual space on "the boat," an intense server watched over by Computer Science House. I had often confus ...

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Day 22

Productively Lost part Deux Today I messed around with the XSCE a bit more. I had been taking notes on different functions for a while now, but after understanding the main functions I realized the answers I were looking for weren't in there. I was only seeing how it was supposed to work, and being sad when it didn't. Unfortunately I had bit off more than I could chew with this task. Perhaps the reason I agreed to solve the school se ...

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Day 21

Ahead of and behind myself Today was an interesting day. FOSSmaster Decause was out of the FOSSbox all day, carrying out business in Syracuse. For this first half of the day, the ranking member of the office was Oddshocks, a bit of wild man, never hesitant to speak his mind. However, later in the day Threebean came by and gave us all a [presentation on GitFlow](http://threebean.org/presentations/gitf ...

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Day 20

Bash Script Snorkeling So, as I mentioned previously, I'm taking notes on School Server code and scripts to understand what they consist of. However, it is still quite the rocky road, when I come across lines full of symbols I don't understand. For example: if [ "$1" = '-h' -o $# -gt 1 ]; then for file in 'find $DOMAIN_CONFIG_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /u+x ! -name "*~" -print | sort' ; do ["${file%.cfsaved}" != "${file}" ] && continue ["${file%.rpmsave}" != "${file}" ] && continue ...

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Week in Review

UGH!!!!! School-Servers Day 15: -> McNair Scholars program began -> Installed 2/3 of a School-Server -> Raked in dough in lemonade-stand -> TIL Big, established college networks don't like new networks being created within them. Day 16: -> Couldn't connect to the school-server I had installed -> Felt quite productively lost -> RocPy was a healthy and thriving programming-friendly experience -> TIL Programmers have ...