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A new version of socket_wrapper has just been released. In short, socket_wrapper is a library passing all socket communications through unix sockets. It aims to help client/server software development teams willing to gain full functional test coverage. It makes possible to run several instances of the full software stack on the same machine and perform locally functional testing of complex network configurations. New in version...
Another milestone, I got CyanogenMod 12.0 (Android 5.0.1) nearly fully working on the Samsung Galaxy Alpha (SLTE) Exynos version. Video playback is not working but I’m sure it will just be a matter of time … The source code is available are here.
Several people asked me about the status about the Active Directory Domain Controller support of Samba in Fedora. As Fedora and RHEL are using MIT Kerberos as its Kerberos infrastructure of choice, the Samba Active Directory Domain Controller implementation is not available with MIT Kerberos at the moment. But we are working on it! Günther Deschner and I gave a talk at the SambaXP conference...
I’ve updated my PGP key. I’ve signed it with my old key. You can find the key here. The fingerprint of the new key is: 8DFF 53E1 8F2A BC8D 8F3C 9223 7EE0 FC4D CC01 4E3D
We just released version 4.0.0 of Samba. About 10 years in development this is a huge milestone. It is the first version that can be a domain controller in an Active Directory domain!
I wanted to reimplement kio_sftp with libssh since some month. This week is another openSUSE Hack Week. I’m in the SUSE office in Nürnberg with some KDE developers. Dirk Müller helps me with the implementation. I’m normally not a C++ developer so it is a good oppurtunity to get help and things done. More on Wednesday. The weather will be good tommorow so I plan...
Yesterday was my last day officially working for Novell. Today is the “Labor Day” in Germany and I’m unemployed now.
Red-Black Trees were originally designed by taking a 2-3-4 tree and unrolling the big nodes into a cluster of simpler binary tree nodes. The 2-3-4 node operations are mapped to binary tree operations. Now Robert Sedgewick presented a new tree called Left-Leaning Red-Black Tree. A Red-Black tree has a lot of cases you have to consider, especially if you delete a node. This makes the...