Using CollabNet desktop explorers with Team Forge

There are a couple Windows desktop plugins that I've used for working with documents, artifacts, and tasks in Team Forge.

• SourceForge Explorer - Windows .NET application that interacts with CollabNet Source Forge online web application to work with documents, artifacts, and tasks.
  
• TeamForge Explorer - same .NET application as Source Forge explore but updated for new Team Forge naming and feature set.
  
• CollabNet Desktop Windows Edition - a different (also .NET) implementation that seems to share code implementation with the Eclipse edition of the same tool.
  
• CollabNet Desktop Eclipse Edition - plugin for Eclipse for working with code, tasks, artifacts, and Documents.

This can be downloaded from CollabNet:

http://desktop-vs.open.collab.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=3794
(goes to here: http://www.open.collab.net/servlets/OCNDirector?id=CICDWE1.2)

The latest Desktop Windows Edition seems to be pretty damn good. Best feature: you can edit a document IN PLACE. Click to edit, opens directly into Word, then when you save, it goes directly back to CollabNet. It even asks for a version comment.

HOWTO Ubuntu network configuration in VMware

I've run a couple Ubuntu images on my machine lately and keep forgetting how/where to re-initialize the network settings. The easy answer is:

/etc/network/interfaces

Then rerun the network startup script:

/etc/init.d/networking restart

Bingo. It should reset the networking stuff.

To make this work properly in the VMware image, you need to make sure that "Devices > Network Adapter > Connect has been selected. I typically use "NAT" mode which results in outgoing connections from the VM, incoming traffic from the host OS, but the VM is not reachable by other machines on the network. "Bridged" will allow reachability from the network, but probably requires that you can get multiple DHCP addresses from the same MAC.