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SysAlive 3 RC3

Godmode — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:27:27 +0000

Released. I forget how many bugs I fixed but under the config menu there’s now stuff for email. FYI, whatever email host you’re using has to support anonymous logins, cause I haven’t figured out how to add in a username and password yet. It’s on the to-do list, hopefully I’ll figure it out.

But enough yappin’ – DA LINKS!

SysAlive 3 RC3 Installer [Removed, RC4's coming in minutes]

SysAlive 3 RC3 Zip [Removed, RC4's coming in minutes]

^ Installer’s thanks to Inno Setup and an X10Hosting staff member who pointed it out to me. Thanks ScottD!

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Back to Normal…

Godmode — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:49:08 +0000

Got the hard disks pulled out of Mediabox and it seems that is NOT why it was crashing, so meh. I’m not sure whats dieing but I’m gutting it for whats useful (read: cd burner, hard drive, and wifi pci card), and calling it quits with that box.

Which means I can FINALLY get back to making sure RC3 is ready to go. I already killed the links in the old 2 RC topics. I figure it’d be annoying to download RC2 then have RC3 come out the same day.

Peace until it’s ready folks!

Proof I Listen To Suggestions…

Godmode — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:37:15 +0000

…is in the next SysAlive release candidate (rc3 for those keeping track).

Gotta thank Majick in the X10Hosting Offtopic IRC channel for this one: Emailed Notifications. I’m still ironing out a bug with it (I can’t get it to allow server authentication for ones that don’t support anonymous logins for sending emails) but otherwise it’s working fine. Sends updates every 15 minutes if there’s at least 1 server marked as Offline (to avoid spam it’s defaulting to Don’t Send Updates For Warnings – you don’t need to know when it might be down, you need to know when it IS down). Thanks again, Majick!

Also, for those who hate the X = Minimize To Tray fix I put in RC2, thank Sharky – it’s now a Confirm Close instead of minimize so if you hit X it’ll ask if you want it to close or not. Plus at the same time I found a way to make it NOT hang Windows when the system is shutting down – it used to abort the shutdown if it wasn’t closed by File>Exit or RightClick>Exit, which would mean as the OS shuts down the program would abort and essentially stop the shutdown. When I was looking for how to detect shutdown by that X, I found how to detect it by OS Shutdown as well, so if it’s being closed by the OS it’ll shut down normally. The log entry is a bit different though.

So that’s about it for now, just giving out a progress report while I get the last few known SA3 RC2 bugs ironed out before tossing out RC3. Stay frosty people!

Edit: Emailed Notification suggestion by Majick, added his name in the post.