Tag Archive: open source

FileZilla 3.3.2.1 Released

Posted Mar.22, 2010 under Windows

FileZilla is a powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL and Kerberos GSS security. Additional features include keep alive, auto ascii/binary transfer, download queue, manual transfers, raw FTP commands and more. A nice program for beginners and advanced user alike. Actual update download was not affected, only display of the progress bar.

New features:

  • Remember location of update download directory

Bugfixes and minor changes:

  • Cancel file renaming on actions that change the file list, such as changing sort order or performing a refresh
  • Cancel file renaming if starting a drag&drop operation
  • Filter invalid characters if downloading through double-clicking files or if adding from the search dialog
  • Fix site-specific bookmarks menu
  • The menu did not reflect initial value of preserve timestamp option properly
  • MSW: Keep FileZilla subdirectory in startmenu when updating, preserves custom order
  • MSW: Add AppID support to installer

News source: Official website
Download: FileZilla 3.3.2.1

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Microsoft to open source .NET Micro Framework

Posted Nov.17, 2009 under Announcement, Microsoft

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Microsoft announced today at PDC09 here in Los Angeles that they will be opening the .NET Micro Framework source code and also release the next version, 4.0. The release will be available under the Apache 2.0 license, something that is already being used inside the community.

Developers will be able to gain access to the Base Class Libraries that were implemented into the .NET Micro Framework and CLR code.

Both the TCP/IP and Cryptography libraries are not included in the source. Colin Miller told the developers that the reason behind Microsoft not releasing the available source code was because they use a third-party from EBSNet and do not have distribution rights.

Microsoft is opening discussion of how to improve their .NET Micro Framework for developers through their community, including Microsoft developers and external partners to make improvements on their open source development.

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HTML 5 drops open-source video codec: Mozilla Firefox 3.5 pwned!

Posted Jul.06, 2009 under Firefox, Mozilla

Among squabbles and disagreements, specific codec requirements for the <video> and <audio> tags may be removed from the proposed HTML 5 standard. Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML 5 specification for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) made his concerns and decisions known saying that without a general consensus among browser makers he could not make any codecs mandatory in the standard, for now.

“After an inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on the situation regarding codecs for <video> and <audio> in HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship,” Hickson wrote. “I have therefore removed the two subsections in the HTML5 spec in which codecs would have been required, and have instead left the matter undefined, as has in the past been done with other features like <img> and image formats, <embed> and plugin APIs, or Web fonts and font formats.”

The <video> and <audio> tags are being proposed for introduction in the HTML standard to allow web developers to use a single, simple and preferably non-proprietary way of adding media to web sites. Most browser makers support the tags, with the notable exception of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, not exactly known for its groundbreaking features in the past; however, a consensus on what codecs to use to power the video and audio support hasn’t been met.

Most browser makers and experts would prefer using the open-source, royalty-free Ogg Vorbis codec for audio and Ogg Theora for video. These are currently supported by Mozilla in Firefox 3.5, Opera 10 and the latest Google Chrome builds. Another popular proposal is the H.264 video codec supported by Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari. However, Mozilla and Opera refuse to use it as it requires a license they claim too restrictive, in Mozilla’s case, and too expensive in Opera’s. Apple on the other hand has no support for the Ogg codecs in Quicktime, the multimedia backend for Safari, and doesn’t plant to introduce one with worries of issues with the uncertain patents and lack of hardware support.

While Google does support both codecs in its Windows implementation of the Chrome browser, it couldn’t secure licensing for the open-source offering, Chromium. With none of the browser makers willing to change their views there will be no codec requirements in HTML 5 for now.

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