The Read-Write Society
I saw a really good presentation from Lawrence Lessig on The Read-Write Society. It was from the Wizards of OS 4 conference.
Video: .ogg | .mp4
Audio: .ogg | .mp3
Evolution
I was reading Planet GNOME and saw a post about Evolution (practically) dead? KMail not far behind..
I think it’s obvious that Evolution develop has slowed down a lot. I don’t know how much money Ximian burned through developing it but I doubt they recouped their development costs. Novell doesn’t want to go down the same [...]
LAT 1.2.0
LDAP Administration Tool 1.2.0 has been released. This is the new stable branch. The main improvements of this release are:
Multiple servers from single window
View and attribute viewer plugins
Added support for binary attributes
Find available servers via Avahi
Support for NetworkManager to better handle changes to network connectivity
Enhanced schema browser
New help manual
Minor UI enhancements
Changes since 1.1.90:
Support default values [...]
LAT 1.0.8
LDAP Administration Tool 1.0.8 has been released. This is likely the last release of the 1.0 series. Changes since 1.0.7:
BUGFIX: [#71] Crash in edit user view dialog due to problems getting GID number
BUGFIX: [#69] LAT could only list max 1000 entries
Downloads: tar.gz
Open Source at Microsoft
Saw this interesting video on Channel 9 with Bill Hilf talking about Open Source at Microsoft.
Lang.NET Symposium
I watched some the videos available from the Lang.NET Symposium. Lots of good stuff there.
Miguel de Icaza – Talking about the Mono project. Who knew that people actually sent him death threats over Mono.
Mike Barnett – This was about Spec# which extends C# and allows you to specify design details in the code. You can [...]
LAT 1.1.90
LDAP Administration Tool 1.1.90 has been released. This is the first beta for the 1.2 release. Check it out. If you find any bugs, please report them.
If you are interested in a doing a translation of the program/manual the strings should be stable and you can begin. If you are packaging LAT for your Linux [...]