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Month: March 2011

  • Everybody talks about Enterprise Clouds as the Next Big Thing!

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    Nowadays, everybody talks about Enterprise Cloud Solutions as the next big thing in IT. Actually, it’s a thing from the 1960s. See yourself. But, seriously, if you were looking for cool cloud solutions featuring OpenStack, better turn to B1 Systems GmbH from Germany.

  • Horde 4 Alpha 1 released (pear)

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    Yesterday the horde project released alpha versions of Horde Framework 4 and the Groupware apps (Notes, Calendar, Email, Filter,Address Book, Tasks) I did a test drive and they basically work. IMP has been improved a lot and now integrates the mobile and ajax interface versions which came as separate apps in Horde 3. DIMP (Ajax…

  • Developing Hort password safe: Horde 4 Shares

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    I recently decided I wanted to drop the Horde 3 password safe eleusis and build something new which uses Horde 4 API and features right from the start. Thus I got the horde skeleton from git and created a new horde app called “hort”. Hort is an old German word for treasure as well as…

  • Warning: Updates from OpenSUSE 11.3 to 11.4 may fail (liblzma0)

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    OpenSUSE 11.4 repositories have just opened for downloading, official release will be this week. Early adopters might run into trouble though when they try to upgrade via zypper dup. You may end up with the following error: Entfernung von (17419)libmodman0-0.4.3-1.5.x86_64(@System) fehlgeschlagen: Fehler: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM fehlgeschlagen: rpm: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.0: cannot…

  • Marching Band covers Rage Against the Machine 🙂

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    http://www.dump.com/2011/02/24/marching-band-covers-rage-against-the-machine-video/   See yourself

  • The Horde Project announces new monthly newsletter.

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    Gunnar Wrobel today announced the new monthly horde newsletter: Last month the Horde project sent out a first newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ct4tP The letter is meant to be sent monthly and summarizes progress and plans concerning the Horde project. You can subscribe to the newletter here: http://horde.us2.list-manage.com Of course, following this blog is an option, too 😉…

  • Horde 4 Preview – Calendar Kronolith now supports resources

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    Horde 4 is due for April 05 2011 – and sports a new release of the major groupware applications. Among them, the time-tracking app hermes sees its 2.0 release. DIMP (ajax webmailer) and MIMP (mobile devices webmailer) have been integrated into IMP, the webmailer. The task tracker nag has been integrated into the new (optional)…