Open sourcing my error on XenSource
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Blog: What can I say?  Even the most opinionated among us are sometimes wrong.  I just happen to be wrong more than most.  :-)
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SSL-Exploerer version 0.2.13 has been released. SSL-Explorer is the world's first open-source, browser based SSL VPN solution. This unique remote access security solution provides users and businesses alike with a means of securely accessing network resources from outside the network perimeter using only a standard web browser.    The 0.2.13 release provides a number of important bug fixes to many areas of the system (see change log below). This release also includes a number of performance improvements that provide improved web server responses.  SSL-Explorer: Enterprise Edition product page:  http://3sp.com/showSslExplorer.do   SSL-Explorer: Community Edition product page:  http://3sp.com/showSslExplorerCommunity.do   SSL-Explorer SourceForge.net project page:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslexplorer/   ================= =   CHANGE LOG    = =================  SSL-Explorer 0.2.13 - April 27, 2007  All Editions  Bug Fixes       o Webfolders require re-authentication      o Installer Step-4 Available Interfaces      o Installer Step 5 configure proxies port exception inconsistent      o User can enter a negative shutdown delay      o Lack of extension description causes name to not be displayed in application creation      o When removing access right a NPE occurs.      o Selecting no user database throws exception      o Session password entered when launching resource throws exception      o Actions for account now available in Accounts listing rather than Account edit page.      o Default icon/list resource view only works for favourites      o Setting Authentication order in IE7 or Firefox 2 does not work correctly      o Exception in Network Places displays user password, plus cannot determine certain file types      o System Configuration, Windows Integration - AD tab not working      o Network Places NullPointerException when trying to paste nothing      o In Access Rights, creating any access right gives you an error in the information section      o Replacement Proxy - ClassNotFoundException on MultipartForm      o User prevented from entering javascript or HTTP header injection in SSL-Explorer redirect URLs      o Unable to Create another account immediately after creating a new one      o Problems with AD accounts that have different username/sAMAccountNames      o Install Wizard Import certificate requiring an alias is not mandatory      o HTML Applications Broken      o Vista /   Java 6 Fatal JVM Crash      o When opening 2 different web forwards, the forward that was opened first gives 404 errors for all links      o MSJVM support not working      o Resolved concurrent modification exception in web forward POST request that contains URI parameters      o Policy associations removed when user database changes      o Ip restrictions - the ability to recover from an ip restricted state      o Options to disable weak SSL cipher suites      o Performance improvements   Enterprise Edition  Bug Fixes      o Comma separated CN not found with any groups when authenticating with AD via LDAP       o Audit event name inconsistencies      o Some auditing events don't appear in reports.      o Mail check socket timeout is treated as disconnection      o Force PIN change at next logon doesn't mandate the PIN be different      o Brandless Logon incorrectly displays welcome text      o Drive Mapping causes errors when installed and unlicensed      o When using LDAP, entering a valid user with any invalid password logs you on
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Missing Symantec love and price war A few months ago Citrix told us it would use XenSource as a weapon, pushing prices of virtualization software down far below what VMware currently offers. Now we're wondering what happened to Citrix's guts.â¦
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In a new post on her blog today, Elizabeth Smith talks about her "PECL Windows nut project" of wanting to get every single PECL extension she can get her hands on to compile under Windows.   Now there will be some that are just frankly impossible (but there are some extensions that are impossible on *nix as well - you're not going to see me messing with xmms) What does this mean? Playing with lots of open source libraries, fixing simple errors, creating config.w32 files for extensions. Basically just looking at what is broken and fixing it.   She's already started on the project, fixing several of the base extensions and moving on to try to correct one to five extensions a day. These changes are getting committed into CVS so anyone can get at them and try them out for themselves. She's also trying to get them over into the PECL4WIN packages to make things more "official".
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The Open-Xchange Server software is released for download.
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Ziff Davis - The German company prepares to release its third version of Open-Xchange Server, which it open-sourced under the GPL in August. A supported product will be available at a price.
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XenSource and Virtual Iron, which aim to profit from Xen open-source virtualization software, release free new versions.
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Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he's come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.   I really didn't need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn't work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.   He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that'd need to be made to make it all happen.
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Friends of friends XenSource, the server virtualization company, has added a second former Microsoft staffer to its management ranks, recruiting the exec responsible for leading a number of big Windows products.â¦
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Felix Geisendorfer shows, in a new blog post today, how to setup XDebug (the popular debugging extension for PHP) on a Mac OSx (or Win32/Linux) system.   One of the biggest obstacles when getting started with Xdebug was that I had a hard time finding good instructions on how to set it up on Mac OS X (I finally got rid of windows, yeah !). The only good resource I found was stored in Googles cache (wasn't live anymore) and had instructions on how to manually build xdebug from source.   His is a four step process of installing XDebug support on his MAMP setup - including a few configuration directives you'll need to apply to get XDebug support included.
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I'm looking for ideas, established practices, do's and don'ts for sponsoring an open source project.  An upfront caveat -- this is not an actual offer. It's totally hypothetical. If I make the offer it will be done in some other more formal way.  The project: I want the OPML Editor to run on Linux. I don't want to hire someone to do this project, rather I want to offer a reward when the project is completed.  The source code is already released under the GPL, in versions for Mac OS X and Windows. Of course Mac OS is a flavor of Unix, but the internal API is quite different, I imagine, from Linux. I'm not looking for elegance, I'm looking for functionality. I don't care how the port is done, just that it be maintainable, and then be released (of course) under the GPL.  Personally, I think the most likely way to get this done quickly is to compile the code under WINE, using the Windows version of the code, and then go back and connect up the Unix system calls, so that all the Unix related verbs work. (Note the OPML Editor is actually a rich programming environment, despite its diminutive name. It's an instance of UserLand Frontier, which goes back to 1988.) To me, it would be worth $10,000 to have the OPML Editor running reliably on Linux, because then all the projects I've built and am building would then automatically run on Linux. Now I'm not saying that the project can be done for that amount of money (it's possible that it can), but I also don't feel I should be the only person funding the project. And maybe it's enough of a prize to incentivize someone or a group to do it. Now, of course, I see problems. Since it's an open source project, how will I know who to give the reward to if the goal is met. It might be the result of the work of a group of people. If so, I think they would have to figure out among themselves how to split the reward. On the other hand, I don't see any movement right now to port the codebase to Linux, so maybe if someone is interested in the project, you should do it on your own, and just present the results. If it works, then it seems you would be entitled to the reward. I seem to remember people proposing groupware systems for creating these kinds of projects, a few years ago. Not sure if they came to fruition, for all I know there could be an eBay for open source programming projects. If you have any information to share on this, please post a comment here, and thanks in advance.
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On the Mac, in a Frontier or OPML Editor script. sys.unixShellCommand("open http://scripting.com/") I want to be able to find this tidbit later in Google. Please ignore.
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SourceLabs, a provider of tested, certified, and supported open source systems, announced that it has secured a $3.5 million investment from Ignition Partners and Index Ventures to deliver on the promise of Dependable Open Source Systems.
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(InfoWorld) - VMware co-founder Mendel Rosenblum has poured tepid water on the recent acquisition of open-source virtualization vendor XenSource by remote desktop company Citrix as well as outlining his demands to the chip vendors. He made his remarks during an exclusive interview with Techworld at virtualization industry event VMworld, during which he also outlined what additional support for virtualization he wants the chip vendors to provide. Commenting from a technology perspective on the Citrix buy-out, which was announced last month, Rosenblum said: "If I were in Citrix's shoes, would I have gone in that direction? There is a layer to control -- I can see it from that point of view as they've long suffered from being on top of Microsoft.... I can see why they might do it, but there are a lot of challenges." Rosenblum also laid out a blueprint for some of the issues he'd like to see the AMD and Intel tackle. He said that VMware didn't always get what it wanted from the processor makers and that VMware needed more visibility into how virtual machines use the processor cache in order to provide better quality of service. In particular, he referred to the problem of a VM demanding huge amounts of processor resource that affected other processor cores. He said: "We've made great steps, but if you have a 10-gig NIC with tiny packets coming, it can consume a whole CPU just looking at each of them, so it's really difficult trying to match line rate." Rosenblum also claimed that his comments about virtualization being a threat to Windows were taken out of context. He said: "Journalists like to put things in headlines that I actually didn't say.... The point was that once you have the virtualization layer driving the hardware, that's taken away some of the functionality of the OS, which gives the OS a chance to focus on its other major goal, which is still very much needed in the application environment. So where modern OSes have gone is to control hardware and the application and are running into a dead end."
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A GTK/python frontend to the news leecher "hellanzb" providing most functionalities available from the "hellanzb daemon" and Drag and Drop file-enqueuing.Hellanzb can be obtained through your distro's package manager or at http://www.hellanzb.com   looks like hellagui only worked for me. There was a major bug : if no config file was present, hellagui would crash on start.  Now, if a developer, even of such a lowly glade hack as this one, says "this is working" and has even got screenshots to prove it, and the package doesn't work for you, it's very probable that there is some weird bug he (the developer, in this case me), missed.   It seriously doesn't hurt to just drop a small mail stating "sorry dude, but your application is just a pile of bugdung and it crashes". I'll even welcome "U 5vXX0r. it Cr4sh3d" messages ... If there is a shell output, even better. If not I'll survive and ask myself WHY it crashed and then fix it.  Anyway ... this version should work ... please DO tell me if it doesn't.
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In a new article on Builder.com, Brendon Chase shows you how to get a LAMP development environment fired up without the hassles of configuring everything from scratch -- using XAMPP. XAMPP is a single packaged download from Apache Friends which provides all of the pieces of software needed, plus more you probably don't need, to make Apache installations with server-side scripting and a few database options ready to go in a testing or development environment. The article focuses on getting XAMPP running on Linux (it will also work on Windows and a version for Sun's Solaris is also available). The example in the article uses a Debian-based Linux distribution, but just about any flavour of Linux will work.
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Enterprise support and that Sun "take over" Since it changed its name from Interface21 towards the end of 2007, open source tools developer SpringSource has been quick to capitalise on its position in open source.â¦