June 25th, 2008 Al Kalter
It was probably about 15-20 years ago that I was asked to arrange a speaker for my weekly Rotary meeting, and I invited in a representative of a new company to demonstrate a new technology – the cellular telephone. We were all impressed, and several of us got to try out the device that afternoon. Making calls just because we could do so now seems to be limited to those few minutes after landing when the flight attendant tells us that it’s OK to reconnect to our electronic world. But only the most prescient among our Rotary group back then could have foreseen the way cell phones would become dominant in our lives.
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June 25th, 2008 Pete Brower
The 4.3 beta release is still moving forward and I think we will have a Linux limited beta ready by the 30th. We will follow that with other platforms as we port the code and compile. That may take several weeks before we have all the platforms available for beta testing. We also need to complete an upgrade conversion utility. A lot of the file structures in System Admin have changed and we must write the conversion tool to get those files restructured.
Limited Beta? I’ve had some questions about what that means. Well, that means you need to contact us about your interest in testing and we will work out what you are willing to test and get you a copy of the software when it is available. It will not be available for general download at this point. With the System Admin file changes we don’t think it’s a good idea to have everyone downloading it and creating problems with their current production installs. Obviously you DO NOT want to run this beta (or any beta) in production. That being said, if you are willing and have time to run this beta isolated from your production environment please contact us.
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