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Date: 22/5/2003 | Well now that I use Scribe-Linux day to day, some of the more extended functionality other than just "send mail" and "receive mail" is comming into play. Little niceties like double clicking an attachment and having it open in the program associated with the file's type. Well I was hoping I could do that, but it seems after all these years Linux still doesn't have the breathtaking simplicity of BeOS when it comes to typing your files.
It seems to me that the current method for getting a file's MIME type is calling file(1) and hoping for the best: linux% file -i /tmp/JuneJuly03.xls file: Using regular magic file `/usr/share/magic.mime' /tmp/JuneJuly03.xls: dataRiiiiiight, mime type = "data", it doesn't even have a slash in it!!! There are people who are solving the problem but not many distros have picked up the crusade yet. If only KDEand Gnome would join hands and collect common code/data/config into the same place. Esp when it comes down to user settings. When the user wants 'X' set as a preference, I doubt they care whether KDE or Gnome or something actually stores that away somewhere, they just expect it to work. I want my file meta data and I want it now! |
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Date: 21/5/2003 | I've sworn off features for the last 3 weeks and I'm carefully weeding out bugs, buffer overruns, crashes and threading issues from the codebase. So far it's showing signs of making the software (esp Scribe) more stable. There is a new build for Win32 and Linux online, and I'm hoping it's going to run well.
In particular the Linux build is a quantum leap ahead of the previous build (at least for me on XFree 4.3.0). I've started using it for my day to day client which is an amazing trial by fire. In some places the Linux build is much faster than the Win32 and in others the Win32 build is much quicker. Each OS has it's strengths and weaknesses. I'm pleasantly surprised at how quick Scribe now runs on local X. Very nice! Also I've released i.Ftp for Linux. It compiled and ran with minor modifications and fixes. I've ported i.Mage as well, but it needs somewhat more work to be usable. The number of Linux related Lgi fixes accumulating for the next release is huge. Lgi can now really lay claim to be an XP GUI library again after the BeOS port was depreciated. The whole Linux port is now approaching some semblance of stability and function. I've finally decided on the LGPL for licencing Lgi because on the whole I agree with the notion that proprietry software has had it's day. Initially I assumed that a BSDish licence would be the most 'free' (liberty) licence available and I should use that but in retrospect, it helps the proprietry world more than the free world by offering high quality software with no requirement for contributing back. And I added my own little segment to protect the software against patent abuse, which I thought was kinda nifty (patents SUCK). But now I'm getting serious, and Lgi is LGPL from here on in. However I disagree with the concept that just because you link with software of a different licence you should have to adopt that licence as it is with straight GPL. This causes all sorts of grey areas when the OS is GPL and the application running on it is not. |
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| i.Mage Direction | |
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Date: 7/4/2003 | I've been doing some work on i.Mage lately and well the version numbers are ticking through to 1.00, so I thought I'd put out a call to the i.Mage users to ask what is really missing that should go into 1.00? Are there any show stopper bugs that need addressing? Work flow issues? |
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| Site Update | |
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Date: 19/3/2003 | I've gone and encoded most of the email addresses on this site to try and avoid them getting spidered by the spammers. This applies to the forums as well, so leaving your email there is now much less likely to attract spam. Something which I think you'll all appreciate!
Also I've xenu'ed the site and removed some bad links. Oh yeah, as if you hadn't noticed. I changed the colours to be a little less feisty. Change is a good thing... right? |
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| Today's Headlines: Democracy Dead in Gang Shooting | |
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Date: 17/3/2003 | Despite overwhelming opposition from the Australian public, our government has sent our troops off to war.
Um, last time I checked the polititions were representing the people's wishes. FWIW I think that Australia is being pressured by the US to go to war, despite the best interests of our own people. All we are acheiving is raising ourselves up to be a target for retaliation and wasting a pile of money doing it. I used to like Howard, but now I think he's just a spineless lapdog. </rant> |
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| Updates | |
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Date: 10/3/2003 | New test versions of Scribe (Download) and InScribe. Updated all the plugins to match. Also there is a new version of the Groupware Server to play with.
Hopefully there will be a new Linux version of Scribe around the corner. It will suck less ok. |
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