Oh no… all symbolic links are not accessible from Leopard. It shows error message that the target links can’t be found. They are OK with Tiger, so I’m thinking that there is a bug in Leopard. For a while, I can live with copying the file from Linux to Mac and worked with the copy in Mac. But when the first update of Leopard is out, it’s still not fixed so I somehow curious what really happen here.
So today I spent some time to examine the problem and found a suggestion from here to restart the samba server everytime mac connects to it. It’s not that convenient.
Reading more to the links given by it, I found out that simpler solution is available. Just by adding this line to smb.conf (in Ubuntu the location is /etc/samba/smb.conf), the problem can be resolved.
unix extensions = no
Apple Mac is known for its superb dictionary. I really like that they use Oxford for the dictionary not just some simple word to word dictionary. The new Leopard even adds the excitement by including Japanese dictionary which is not so useful for me but probably very useful for many Japanese out there.
But that’s not the point I want to discuss now.
For several days I was looking for a decent Indonesian English dictionary running on the Mac. I’m not lucky since I can’t find any until now. Instead I found out that Mac has a good documented Dictionary Development Kit for they who want to create their own dictionary. That’s mean no need to create the interface, no need to define the index strategy… Just provide the content and voila… you get an Indonesian English dictionary. If you see the picture I gave before, you see that there is a new dictionary named Indonesia on the left end side.
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