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Beagle no more?

lorenb — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:38:44 +0000

Looks like the Beagle project is no longer being developed. They are/were looking to a for a new maintainer but it doesn’t look like anyone is going to step up.

That’s too bad, but since that’s the case, I’ve now switched to Tracker

epiphany

lorenb — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:56:45 +0000

I use Linux 90% of the time on my comptuers. Obviously for iPhone development I have to use a Mac and some of my consulting clients require Windows so I have that in VMs.

Since GNOME 2.24, I’ve been having problems with my Epiphany web browser. When I download text files or PDF it tries to open them in OpenOffice.org or Gimp instead of respecting my chosen default applications (GEdit and Evince).

It’s fine on the desktop with other applications. Not sure why only Epiphany exibits this behaviour.

This is further compounded by web sites try and prevent direct downloads. For example, the iTunes site when I download financial reports for my iPhone apps, you can’t right and say download. I just get some HTML instead of the file.

I’m tired of this happening. I can’t standing having to go into /tmp find the files I was trying to download, copy to my desktop, fix the permissions and then open finally.

Not sure if this is Epiphany or something with Mozilla/Gecko. Hopefully when Epiphany switches to WebKit this will get fixed.

LAT future

lorenb — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:51:02 +0000

I haven’t done any development of LAT in a while. The tool does all the stuff I need it for and I’m happy with it as is. These days I’m mostly writing applications for the iPhone.

It was looking like the project would just die and fade away but, Jeroen Asselman has stepped up and taken over development. He’s moved the source code over to SourceForge.

I’m sure Jeroen will do a good job of taking LAT forward.

LAT update

lorenb — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:24:06 +0000

I’m trying to give MonoDevelop another chance so I’m in the process of re-doing the GUI in LAT. It’s going to be a slow process of re-creating the various widgets/dialogs, copying the old code in and then testing it.

You can follow the work in my git repository: git clone git://www.lbtechservices.com/lat.git

Future of LAT

lorenb — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:22:20 +0000

For the last few months I’ve been unable to do much in the way of developing LAT.

The first issue is MonoDevelop. In the 1.3 branch, I started to make more use of MonoDevelop features. I switched from building the interface in Glade to MonoDevelop’s Stetic UI builder.

This made development much easier and I was able to clean up a lot of interface issues. However, I found new MonoDevelop releases wouldn’t compile the project any more. I reported the bug and some things got fixed but overall it stopped development cold.

As of MonoDevelop 0.15 I can’t even open the project anymore. It just crashes try to load the solution file. Even with the stable 1.2 branch, I can open the project but it refuses to compile with some strange errors.

The second issue is Mono, specifically the Novell.Directory.Ldap assembly. It doesn’t support non-Latin characters as far as I can tell. TLS support is broken. There is no support for GSSAPI for Kerberos intergration.

I can’t implement the features I want with the way things currently are. I guess I could try and fix it myself but it took me months to get one SSL bugfix accepted and then I had to wait for the next two Mono releases before I could use it. The TLS bug I reported has been open for over a year now. It doesn’t inspire confidence.

I’m not really interested in re-doing all the UI work in Glade and then switching back to a Gedit/Terminal/Glade workflow. Overall LAT does what I need it for and my itch is basically scratched. So as it stands, I don’t think I will be doing any more releases of LAT past 1.2.3 which I just pushed out today. If someone is interested in taking over the project, let me know.

LAT 1.2.3

lorenb — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:48:47 +0000

LDAP Administration Tool 1.2.3 has been released. This is a bugfix release. Changes since 1.2.2:

BUGFIX [#90] Fix bug with samba SID being stripped during edits
BUGFIX [#88] Creating new POSIX user causes crash

Downloads: tar.gz

Sussen 0.90

lorenb — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:19:30 +0000

Sussen 0.90 has been released. Sussen is a tool that checks for vulnerabilities and configuration issues on computer systems.

We are getting closer to v1.0. The remaining items to do are to fix the remaining bugs in bugzilla, clean up the look/feel of the web console. The editor has been disabled for now, it won’t be ready in time for 1.0, but we’ll keep working on it for the 1.1/1.2 branch.

We are also working on setting up an OVAL repository so we can provide updated definitions in a more timely manner. I’ll have more details on that later.

Changes since 0.35: