Archive 23. January 2007

Bundestag: Eavesdropping devices in MP's office? - only concerns an MP from the Left Party. Will probably fizzle out or be covered up ...

IronPython and libsecondlife

libsecondlife is a C# reimplementation of the SecondLife protocol. IronPython is Python on .NET. They should be able to be used together. They can be. However, IronPython is not Python - most of the standard library is missing (although many of the pure-Python modules would certainly work). External libraries are also handled differently. The following makes one happy:

import clr
clr.AddReferenceToFile("libsecondlife.dll")
import libsecondlife

With this, I got everything loaded together. Maybe a start for me to play around with it.

macfuse has received a small enhancement. There are simple installers and two ready-to-use filesystems for easy use: sshfs (with a small connector GUI and command-line tool) and SpotlightFS. The latter offers trivial simple ad-hoc Spotlight searches even on the command line. Genius!

.NET Languages - Programming languages that work under .NET (if it has to be .NET, you can at least take a human-worthy programming language)

News -Anfängerfehler in Mac OS X - I think it's good that the Month-of-Apple-Bugs is running and Mac OS X is being looked at more closely. Because a company that develops its software outside of external control will always make mistakes like the one linked.

Beef roast and rolls - to warn. Aaargh.