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Monthly Archives: August 2006

cheetah-like

22 August 2006

Much shorter follow-up to my post yesterday: Robert Cheetah Wolf Love and I talked a bit about it, and we came to the determination that calling fsync() from the UnixStream.Flush() method isn’t the right thing to do. fsync() does indeed ensure that the data is written to the disk. This is usually a [...]

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21 August 2006

The other day I was trying to hunt down a bug that was reported against Beagle in SLED 10. Normally, I try to duplicate these sorts of bugs in a sandbox using my CVS checkout, which was just after I released 0.2.8. I wasn’t able to duplicate the bug there, so I tried [...]

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steaks on a train

19 August 2006

SoaP is a movie so powerful, I daresay it will bring a generation together. Moreso than 9/11, this will define the quintesential moment of our time. I cannot belive cnn.com gives it a mere three and a half stars out of four. Citizen Kane was about a goddamn sled; this is about [...]

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the dog should be on cuteoverload.com

17 August 2006

Linux Magazine’s September 2006 issue focuses on Beagle interfaces for KDE. Included are Kerry, developed by SUSE and kBeagleBar, written by Beagle’s very own dBera. The article is available online as a PDF.
I can’t remember if I mentioned this before, but Beagle was also mentioned in Linux Magazine in their September 2005 issue [...]

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best in show

17 August 2006

Beagle 0.2.8 is out. This new release has a handful of great new features:

Thunderbird backend courtesy of the awesome Pierre Östlund, who has been working on it for the last four months. It seems pretty solid, and is a great addition to Beagle.
Wildcard searches. People have wanted this for quite some time [...]

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