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Date: 13/12/2004 | Well we're counting down to that magical stable Scribe release (yes I know Christmas IS comming) and the translators are passing in their last edits. It's likely it'll be out by the 20th. Just in time to pop it under the tree of your Outlook stricken family members! ;)
I've also fixed one last crash bug and updated the GnuPG plugins as well. But we're really just watching and waiting for things to settle and for people to have a last chance for feedback before it's finally really actually final. We will be taking a break over the Christmas / New Year starting around the 23rd through to the 7th. So don't expect much in the way of response from us then. PayPal purchases of InScribe will still get immediate key and download information but Kagi purchasers may have to wait a little longer than normal for their key. Cheers |
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| The Sky IS Actually Falling | |||
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Date: 8/12/2004 |
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| gethostbyname_r Buglet | |
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Date: 3/12/2004 | I've been getting reports for Damn Small Linux users that Scribe can't connect to servers because the call to gethostbyname_r fails.
There is a topic here about the issue on the DSL forums if you want to post suggestions, information, test results, slander or pictures of your pets. The relevant code in Lgi is in src/common/INet/INet.cpp on line 500 or so:
Host = NEW(HostEnt);
if (Host)
{
memset(Host, 0, sizeof(*Host));
HostEnt *Result = 0;
int Err = 0;
if (gethostbyname_r(HostAddr, Host, Buf, sizeof(Buf), &Result, &Err))
{
char *ErrStr = GetErrorName(Err);
printf("%s:%i - gethostbyname_r('%s') failed (%i - %s)",
__FILE__, __LINE__,
HostAddr, Err, ErrStr);
DeleteObj(Host);
}
}
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| New Clothes For Scribe | |
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Date: 30/11/2004 | Some new goodness for the about window and the title page. All written in nice configurable HTML that you could, if you wanted to, change to something else I guess.
And for those of you with an eye for detail, what other feature is visible (not) in the first screenshot? |
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| Are We There Yet? | |
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Date: 29/11/2004 | It sounds simple I know but I don't know if it can be done. What I want is to be able to have 2 people using windows at the same time, 2 graphical logins at once. I've heard about fast user switching on XP and I would like to know if somehow that could be retasked with liberal use of SSH and TightVNC to allow a second simultaneous (remote) user to access their own desktop, separate from the local user?
I know it's a little out of Windows league but I thought it might just be possible now days. And before you suggest linux / X windows: 
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| I Hate Web Browsers | |
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Date: 19/11/2004 | Imagine your proofing some HTML with images on your hard disk before putting them online. Seems like a reasonable thing to do right? And you want to use images in your HTML, still all good. So you put the images in the same directory as the HTML and try some code like this:
<img src='image.jpg'>But it doesn't work does it. Noooooooo. <img src='./image.jpg'>Nope. <img src='file:///image.jpg'>Nah mate. <img src='file:///./image.jpg'>Sorry... <img src='file:image.jpg'>Wrong again. *mutter* Yes both IE and Firefox fail this simplest of tests. Truely I am amazed. How did this happen? |
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