Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Language Issues

Huh...

After spending three years in a country whose native language i did not speak, i fought a successful war with a pc which spoke in a different language. It was (and still is) a Windows XP Professional of a friend. Installed in German. Luckily the OS installation is multilingual, which means its possible to change the language of the operating system even after you install it.

But unfortunately, he was not with me to help me with the changeover. So, I had to fight it myself. Not knowing a word of German, and with help from www.leo.org and Google Language tools, I made my way through much of the dialog boxes. And finally after a few reboots and things here and there, it finally started talking to me in English.

However, I could not make individual programs response to me in English instead of German. For example an anti virus software installed on the laptop, which speaks only german and was somehow blocking my skype access. Damn it.. it took me some hours to get the skype configured and working, thanks to the restrictions posed by the firewall created by the anti virus software.

At the end of day, it worked... yes I can barely say that... but not so much as I would have wanted it....

But eventually i have a windows pc working with my internet connection.. allowing me the kind of applications and access I was looking for.

Rest of the day was ok.. nothing much to say about... Except that the share markets around the world are not doing very good and i was worried about that....

till tomorrow...

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