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Chomsky, on Asia and Latin America.

Noam Chomsky: China, unlike Europe, refuses to be intimidated by Washington, a primary reason for the fear of China by US planners, which presents a dilemma: steps toward confrontation are inhibited ...

AppArmor

Joe posted an enthusiastic description of AppArmor: a Novell technology that uses the Linux security infrastructure to improve the security of your system. Novell originally acquired this proprietary...

Using Visual Studio to develop with Mono

If you are interested in developing with Mono using Visual Studio, there are a number of tools that Francisco Martinez has developed to make your experience smoother. He created a few screencasts and...

Follow up to Chris

Chris points out in his blog entry that Xgl is a lot of work: [...] The big thing about the AIGLX approach is that it's incremental. The path to get from here to there allows us to leverage the str...

Infocard

We have been exploring for some time the new Infocard identity framework from Microsoft. If you are interested in this new identity system being developed, check the Microsoft web site here. Thanks ...

The Dave Reveman Files: Xgl and AIGLX

David Reveman, has posted his thoughts on the Xgl/Aiglx debate here: One of the points that I particularly like is: An important goal with X on OpenGL is to make it easier for X to keep up with the a...

PHP.NET Compiler

Raffa was funded by Google during the Summer of Code. He implemented a PHP compiler for Mono and .NET. After a small pause, he has resumed work on his compiler and has now started a blog here: Oth...

Port Security

Dave Winer observations are interesting: I love the political storm President Bush is caught in over the UAE port managers, because it is totally unfair, as he says it is. Of course they're perfectl...

Novell's Open Audio Podcast, part 2

Ted has posted some updates on Open Audio: Ogg formats are comming, he discusses high/medium qualities, why they chose the format they did and the music they use. His post is: Next Steps for Novell ...

Novell starts Podcasting

Novell has started a podcasting show. On the first show they talk with Brady Anderson and Calvin Gaisford from the iFolder. Since iFolder is built on top of Mono, you should listen to this right away....

Your Politics Update

I ran into this article from conservative Paul Craig Roberts. Despite the growing excuses, I believe it spells out a few interesting bits. Americans have forgotten what it takes to remain free. Inst...

Mono on SkyOS

Robert, from SkyOS, ported Mono to SkyOS. On a separate post he talks about challenges he had in porting Mono to SkyOS. In the end he basically implemented the pthreads API that Mono expects, comple...

Imeem Interviewed at the Mac Market

The Imeem founders, Jan and Dalton, were interviewed in Apple's Business Mac Market. "With Mono" says Jan, "we have a low-cost server environment where everything but the UI for the two clients is...

Url me

Nat Friedman: what a beautiful mail danw just sent Nat Friedman: they should teach from that mail in software classes Miguel de Icaza: Url me Nat Friedman: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-deve...

Mono in LinuxAsia 2006

Hari, which is in charge of Mono's C# compiler, will be representing Mono at LinuxAsia 2006 in New Delhi. He will do a few talks and will also be at the Novell booth....

XMLmark and Mono Performance Improvements

Atsushi has posted the result from his optimization week running the XMLmark benchmark. Very good results for a week of work, the graphs show transactions per second and the Mono revision number: ...

I love Jackson

From #mono-winforms IRC channel today: <jackson> man at what point in your life do you start bootlegging OS videos. ...

Mono Series from Addison Wesley

Erik just announced that he is the series editor for a number of books on Mono for Addison Wesley....

C5 Generics Class Library

Peter Sestoft released version 1.0 of his C5 generics library for C#, it is available here: C5 provides functionality and data structures not provided by the standard .Net System.Collections.Generic ...

Mono ships on Nexenta, OpenSolaris-based OS

As the subject says, Mono, Beagle and F-Spot are now included in the second beta of Nexenta. Nexenta is an operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris core and the Debian userland. Beagle is the ...

Microsoft Documentation Browser -- Help Needed

When am browsing documentation for an API on the .NET Framework in the Microsoft Documentation Browser I get the signature for the method in a bunch of languages. I typically only care about the C# si...

Tuning Code Generation

The Mono team is working on a number of directions to improve code generation. Although Massi has worked on a number of advanced optimizations to improve code generation (based on SSA and HSSA), the ...

New Blogger

Ankit Jain which maintains the Mono IL assembler has started a blog here. He is currently working on adding generics support to to our assembler and disassemblers and working on roundtripping the asse...

MonoDevelop with Glade3 integration.

Lluis blogs about his recent work to integrate the Glade-3 GUI designer into MonoDevelop. With his recent changes you can maintain your Glade-based UIs from within MonoDevelop: changing properties of ...

Mono on Windows

Mono supports a number of platforms, Windows included. For us, supporting Windows is important because it helps us debug our code, helps ensure that we are doing things portably, and is useful to test...

Mono and Fedora

I just woke up to the announcement over at Chris Blizzard's blog (from Planet Gnome) that Mono today was included in Rawhide, the staging area for the next release of Fedora Core. These are fantastic ...

Howard Zinn on War

I found this quote from historian Howard Zinn insightful: There is a persistent argument against such a possibility, which I have heard from people on all parts of the political spectrum: We will nev...

Developing on Apple Systems

Recently Nitesh Dhanjani in a bit of a rude email exchange asked Steve Jobs if he had plans to support something like .NET or Ruby on the Mac. Given the initial confrontational exchange (which can be ...

Early Christmas Presents

JB Evain announced Cecil 0.2 the CIL image manipulation library. Thomas from Fluendo announced that they have licensed the MP3 decoding for use with their LGPL libraries. Details are also here. There...

Funny Quote

On the ongoing debate over spying, Molli Ivins writes: Here is a curious fact about the government of this country spying on its citizens: It always goes wrong immediately. For some reason, it's not...

Building a Rationale for a Dictatorship

Nat pointed me to Bruce Schneier weights in on the new administration self-appointed rights: This is indefinite dictatorial power. And I don't use that term lightly; the very definition of a dictator...

Robert Fisk on Iraq

More on the fascinating chapter on Iraq, which gets better every page. The following quote appears after Robert describes the torture practices employed by the Saddam Hussein government and the routi...

Wednesday Links

The Jesus General has a funny graphic, reminds me of Jack London's Iron Heel. The Release of Mrs. Anthrax: So it turns out that the story on Mrs Anthrax was not what the occupation forces told us. S...

Porto Alegre

We decided to escape the sordid Boston winter and are currently refugees in the southern hemisphere. Am doing a Linux Desktop/Mono talk on Thursday at 5pm. I have no idea where it is yet though....

Iraq's Past

I bought my copy of Robert Fisk's The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East his latest books on the various conflicts on the middle-east. I will likely talk more about the book ...

Mono Debugger

Martin has announced a new release of the Mono Debugger. This is the first time that I have been able to use the debugger for a real application. It still has a few rough edges, but at least its work...

Jonathan Chambers Screenshots COM in Mono

Jonathan has posted a screenshot of his COM support for Mono. The sample shows Mono launching Excel with COM interop. Check Jonathan blog for more information on his effort to support COM and its va...

ChronoJump

My friend Xavi which is a sports instructor and also a circus performer got interested in Linux and free software a few years ago. He decided to learn C#, Gtk# and create his first GUI application so...

The Web Desktop

As a follow up to yesterday's web-based desktop communication engine, I wanted to comment on a few ideas that we have been bouncing around. Clearly the HTTP end-points on desktop applications would be...

Debate

Havoc, I was not trying to debate. I agree with your qualifications on your second post about SOAP, in fact depending on the task or depending on the day I would choose one over another, I just took ...

SOAP and REST

Am glad that Havoc brings up the simplicity of jamming and pulling XML from a socket: Miguel, that's cool, I know SOAP (with a library) doesn't involve a ton of application code. My point is more tha...

The Boo Version

The same version of the C# program written in Boo: if len(argv) To build: $ mcs -target:library AmazonSearchService.cs -r:System.Web.Services $ booc am.boo -r:AmazonSearchService.dll To run: $ mo...

PlanetGnome observations

Havoc claims on his "Adventures in Web 2.0" post that Amazon has a SOAP API "for masochists". What exactly is difficult about SOAP exactly It took me longer to register with Amazon and obtain my...

New MonoDevelop release

Lluis has released a new version of MonoDevelop, there are plenty of new features in this release (full release notes are here: A Welcome Page: a starting point for your ongoing projects. New co...

OpenOffice

Radek Doulik talks about his work on his Cairo-based Canvas for OpenOffice and shows the quality difference. He also posted his slides for his presentation.Office File Formats Novell will be sending s...

Mono Status '05

Mono Directions: (Article Permalink) We just released Mono 1.1.10, our best release so far. The major feature missing from this release to call it Mono 1.2 is the completion of our Windows.Forms imp...

Fast DCE Implementation Posted

Massi posted his fast implementation of Dead Code Elimiation for the Mono runtime. This is an optimization that we can hopefully enable by default, as opposed to the more expensive SSA-based optimizat...

Dan Pena Ajena

El presidente Fox y su cabinete, nada ms dan pena ajena. Que verguenza, y es que es una tras otra. Deberan de tener un examen de admisin. Ese es el problema de elegir a alguien que bajaron del cerro ...

Microsoft Memos

I was reading the leaked memos from Microsoft and as I was reading the first few paragraphs, I could not stop thinking that nobody on their right mind writes internal company memos with this kind of h...

Nat's Photo Tagging

Nat recently implemented tag-typing for F-Spot, our new photo management software. For those of us with large picture collections this is probably one of the best interfaces for tagging. See Nat's p...

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