I had a fellow (its IP Address place him coming from China), that had relentlessly tried to get into my SSH ports at www.mfconsulting.com, ftp.mfconsulting and mail.mfconsulting. I made some changes but most important, I upgraded the OS of all my outward facing servers so that they are now either running SLES 10 or SUSE 10.1. Two of the boxes were running SUSE 9.2 and as we all know, the security patching for that version has been discontinued.

Unfortunately, all of those changes have really put a dent on my self imposed release schedule and that translates to about another 2 weeks before I release the new Gtk# Installers for .NET Framework. The good news is that once I am ready to release the SDK variant of the Gtk# Installers, it will for the first time, integrate the Mono Add-in for Visual Studio .NET 2003 and potentially the first pass at a Mono Add-in for Visual Studio 2005.

A byproduct of the upgrades is that I now have Sybase ASE Express 12.5 for linux running on SLES 10. I did not know if it would even be possible to do that, but thank God it is.

I will be going to military service for a fairly extended period -- Jan to May 07. While in service, I may have very infrequent access to the Internet and will likely be retracted from the Mono community. This is only temporary, and hopefully, will not impact anyone too severely.

I continue to rely more and more on Evolution as my personal information manager (PIM). Now that it can run on Win32, I wonder if it is time to begin playing with Evolution#. Can't wait to start but, will continue to work on the Gtk# Installers and the Mono Add-in until their release. In the mean time, I use monodocer to generate some evolution documentation. If you are interested in this, you can unpack the three files contained in this zipfile and place them in the sources directory of you MonoDoc installation. Restart MonoDoc, and you should find the new reference material under the Gnome node.