After looking over the interview suggestions, I decided to go with Matt Tucker from Jive Software. Jive has released their server, Jive Messenger, under the GPL and has an open source jabber library, smack. They have a lot of interesting software using jabber. Take all those questions you have been bottling up (something your counselor [...]
My ISP generally sucks at most things. So I am invoking the almighty LazyWeb. Lately dns lookups have been slower than normal. I remember using an international free dns server network a few years ago. They had a bunch of IPs you would put in /etc/resolv.conf and you would experience dns bliss. I can't recall [...]
My father uses linux. He does so because I gave him an option when he got his computer, $100+ for win32 or linux for free. He chose linux. Seeing as how he has never used a computer before the learning curve was about the same. Today he asked me about a window that amazon shoved [...]
Who shall I pester next in my continuing series of "How to harass people", which you can find here, here, and here. (Aleksey's restraining order should be here by end of month). This is a question that I have been mulling over the past day or so. I originally thought Bob Wyman from pubsub.com would [...]
Earlier I wrote about getting a lot of weird comments. Turns out they were a precursor to comment spam. Just like the comments said. Luckily I have moderation on and with my simple bookmarklet it is annoying but trivial to handle (so far). I have no idea if deleting those comments immediately would have stopped [...]
Justin has answered the questions you posted, plus a few of my own. Until the issues over at jabber.org are resolved the interview will be here. So without further ado, here he is. How did you get your nickname? Infinity is a simple way to express God in math terms. Not that I consider myself [...]
ok… my sister needs a recipe and so instead of emailing I figured I would post it here… have fun Ingredients 1.25 cups sugar, divided 1 cup all-purpose flour 7 tablespoons hershey’s cocoa, divided 2 teaspoons baking powder 0.25 teaspoon salt 0.5 cup milk 0.33 cup butter or margarine, meleted 1.5 teaspoons vanilla extract 0.5 [...]
The long tail was in my back yard tonight. I just saw Break of Reality and they are by far the best group out on the tail. I have been traveling farther and farther down it for quite some time. To be honest most of what I have found is mediocre at best, my irrational [...]
If you are doing something, anything, for the consumption of others, please don’t talk about how great that something is. It very rapidly gets annoying and tedious. It starts a horrid trend for newbies to follow and takes a loooong time for that habit to die. So for the love of a major deity, stop! [...]
From the new google, I get pointed towards mobcasting … interesting
warning: I am going to start using this blog as a note taking place. misc notes on playing with freebsd from a linux user’s perspective: pkg_add is the apt/emerge pkg_add -r pkgname (-r is remote fetch) (do not know how to do a search) After installing a new app, run `rehash’ … this fixes up [...]
I have been getting a ton of strange comments on this blog, here, here, here, here, here, here and all over the place. Not that I am upset people find my site a great thing or a nice thing, it is just that I am use to comments which are some how related to the [...]
While we are waiting for infiniti to respond to the questions now would be a good time to harass another high profile jabberite. This week's guest is Aleksey Shchepin, author of tkabber and ejabberd. He is an extremely active member of the JSF. His software has amassed an almost cult-like following which happens to include [...]
I simply do not get the ipod from apple. I have used several of them and its not a big deal. The interface is not all that great, the feature set is sub par, sound quality is ok at best and it is not easily hackable. Why the hell would anyone besides Aunt Tillie want [...]
To continue my ramblings about search…. Thanks to Planet RDF I ran across Autofocus by Aduna. Its pretty and it almost works. It is written in java which I am not a huge fan of. Since it is not all that graceful with handling large data sets the purpose is somewhat defeated for me. The [...]
My ISP, RoadRunner, decided that it would be a good idea to increase the downstream from 3Mbps to 4Mbps. This is great timing since I am having a purchasing orgy over at magnatune But… there is always a but… I do not really care about the downstream. Sure I can grab that 600MB iso a [...]
Stephen Marquard and I are starting work on jabberd2 2.1 What does this mean? Starting a wiki to discuss what will go in 2.1 Using bugzilla at http://j2.openaether.org/bugzilla/ to manage patches and other buggy things Figure out how to convince people that writing code is a Good Thing …. Profit!! All those new storage and [...]
The Cassini space craft took some really fascinating pictures of Iapetus. Check them out here, and here. I especially like this one
Over at planet.debian.org they are playing with a new 'meme' (yes I hate that term as much as you do.) called musical roulette. Basically you load up all your music, select shuffle, and see what the first ten songs are. Of course I had to try this, so here are my results: The Cynic Project [...]