It's finally here, the much improved openSuSE 11.3 release. And I have to say that the team behind it have done a fantastic job!
I've upgraded my main desktop to run the new OS and as usuall, the ATI prop. driver isn't updated to support the new kernel shipped with openSuSE 11.3.
We've been having some problems with Compact Framework and referencing assemblies from the 3.5 release. The problem shows during compile time with a nice message like "Consider app.config remapping of assembly "System.Data, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=969db8053d3322ac, Retargetable=Yes" from Version "2.0.0.0" [] to Version "3.5.0.0" [c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft.NET\SDK\CompactFramework\v3.5\WindowsCE\System.Data.dll] to solve the conflict and get rid of all warnings."
As openSUSE 11.3 is around the corner and will be released on July 15. Make sure to plan your own release party!
It's finally starting to get close to the new openSUSE release, this time it's 11.3 that's on it's way out of the door. And it will be released on July 15.
There are a lot of new and improved stuff in this release. Take a look at the initial screenshot tour and later on I will try to have a more detailed write up about what's new.
The team ran into some problems using the C# CameraCaptureDialog class for taking pictures with the Compact Framework. When calling the ShowDialog() method it throws a OutOfMemoryException and the user is unable to capture a image.
This only applies to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
With Windows 7, you can use the bcdedit tool to boot into vhd files. This is really cool and useful if you, like me work as a Developer or if you are a IT professional responsible for testing new technology.
I ran into some problems while setting up my openSUSE 11.2 x64 system using ATI graphics. The problems occurs during the install and configuration of ATI's proprietary driver.
First of, you must enable POSIX shared memory, since this is not enabled by default in openSUSE. (At least not in my case).
I like many other ran into some problems while installing SP2 on Exchange 2007.
The main problem? Well, the action "Organization Preparation" fails.
The error:
You do not have permissions to read the security descriptor on CN=Deleted Objects,CN=Configuration,DC=[Company],DC=[Domain].
If you want to use a C# based client to connect to a Java Axis based Web service and if the server is using complex types, you might get into some troubles / strange behavior when making a call to a method using complex types as it's argument(s).
OK, I've finally taken some time to add RSS support for this site. For some reason, people are actually reading the posts I've published here.
OK, I've manage to spend some time with the MySQL connection framework for Obj-C and a new release have been made public.
The project is coming along great. We have the base functionality in place, tested and mostly working.
This weekend, I've planned to complete the STMT support for parametrized queries and start to write a little test application that uses the library to do some admin stuff as a proof of concept.
I have been using Windows 7 for some time now, and today, it will go RTM to all Microsoft ISV's, me included. Finally a OS that can replace Windows XP, and let's not even talk about Windows Vista.
It's a great day, KDE 4.3 is available for download/upgrade.
The KDE community has fixed over 10,000 bugs and implemented almost 2,000 feature requests in the last 6 months.
I've just set up a google code project to host my next project, "MySQL for Obj-C". The project has only one simple goal.
"Enabling Obj-C developers to easily and in a (natural or maybe native?) Obj-C way talk with MySQL servers."
When developing on the Apple platform, one will get a free IDE and free developer tools. That's nice. No extra charge, just download and install from Apple.
But how good is the free IDE, Xcode.
I finally have some time for my self and just playing around with new technology, do some hacking and just relax. For the firs time in a very long time I feel really relaxed.
Apple is known to make things simple, right?
Well, as it turns out, they have definitely forgotten about developers, we don't get all the fancy helpers and nice applications (sexy applications) that we actually could get if Apple just put some effort in it.
Some screens from the install and a fresh system setup from the M3 release.
Mark November 12, the date for the final release of openSuSE 11.2. If you have some time during this summer, please consider participating in testing the milestone releases or contribute in some other way that may be within your area of expertise.
Sometimes you just need to support a specific feature for a specific browser or you just get a report that something isn't working as it should. And when visitors/customers complains about something running online not working, we always ask the same questions
It seems like it's lots of people are writing reviews, tests and performance benchmarks for the Windows 7 BETA, but is it as good as people seems to think?
I've implemented a new look & feel for my little blog. I found the theme at oswd.org and I really like it, hope you will too.
If you are having problems running the boot camp installer in Windows 7 RC1 x64 edition or any other Windows 7 release, x32 or x64 thees Tips & Trix might help you get all the drivers installed.
OK, we have probably got this error once or twice. “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections. The system cannot log you on. Please try again or consult your system administrator”.
So, can we get around this without trying to contact or go to the other computers that actually is logged in to the server? Well of course. Open a Command window and enter the following information.
mstsc /admin /console /v:[HOST_NAME]
This command will make sure you get logged in to the server and you can from there, remote log out logged in users.
OK, we had some problems using a SSH tunnel via localhost on Windows 7 today. It seems that the problem lies within the RDC client validating the address on witch it connects to.
Even that we use another port, the client will complain about a session already running when connecting to localhost:[PORT NUMBER].
The simple solution, replace localhost or 127.0.0.1 with 127.0.0.2:[PORT NUMBER]
I started to use ASP.NET MVC, and I have to say, it's incredibly easy to learn and use. Development time is cut with at least 30-40% and I can spend more time on implementing the business logic and data access.
So, I started to try to port some of my Web services running on IIS and Windows server to Linux (openSuSE). The first problem that occurred was that mod_mono is running with version 1.1 as default, nothing strange with that, but I need support for 2.0+
I'm a pragmatic developer currently working as a Systems Engineer at Appear Networks developing Context-aware mobile applications. When I'm not at work, I'm probably home writing code or reading a good book.
