London and Lyon, France Events

Updated March 14, 2006 @ 6:55 am

Hi, I’m in London currently checked out all the great NODE.LONDON month of media events.

I’m also participating in this and am giving a talk tomorrow (WED) evening from 5-6 at Goldsmiths:

My cellphone in UK and Europe is 079-6722-1636 if you are in the area and want to meet up.

After this talk, then onward to Lyon, France for Libre Graphics Meeting MAR 17,18, and 19.

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Second Life Linux Client

Updated March 6, 2006 @ 2:40 am

Thanks to Sky, who works for Linden Labs, I have successfully used the latest Second Life Linux Client. It seems to work primarily for nvidia cards at the moment.

I’m getting my setup all ready for checking out the CC Second Life land and what people propose for the virtual Creative Commons.

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Gotmail 0.8.8 Released

Updated March 5, 2006 @ 8:50 pm

The Gotmail project, a perl script which downloads mail from hotmail.com without user interaction, released version 0.8.8 today. This is a simple maintenance release with only a few basic bug fixes applied including better dealing with spaces in folder names and extra lines in config files.

While normally the project releases versions with more changes, the development community decided that releasing with some bug fixes is a priority. This is especially true now that the program, Gotmail, already accomplishes its primary goal of “downloading mail from hotmail.com.”

In the future, the Gotmail Project looks to add support for the new Hotmail beta which uses AJAX technology and a refined interface to provide a better user experience. The project seeks developers who might be interested in submitting code to become compatible with this new service.

Another feature that is desired by the development community is integration with other applications, such as Novell’s Evolution e-mail client (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution). Already included in this release is a simple script for transporting one’s hotmail into evolution. What would make for a strong feature is to develop a plugin which directly uses gotmail to check one’s hotmail account from within Evolution.

The Gotmail development community thrives off of users of the script, and ask for people to visit http://gotmail.sf.net/ to test out the latest version, file bug reports, and join the development process.

Itemized list of major changes:

  • Applied patch from jdanwhite to help with spaces in folder names.
  • Fixed bug in allowing empty lines in config files
  • Include “gotmail4evolution” script which transports one’s hotmail mail to a folder in evolution.

Packages ready for download:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8-1.noarch.rpm?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8-1.src.rpm?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8.tar.gz?download
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gotmail/gotmail-0.8.8.zip?download

http://gotmail.sf.net/

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