Blonde!
This is my favorite new blonde joke. It's even better than the Idiot Card.
Google Talk Full Jabber Interoperability
Interesting. When Google Talk first came out, I was somewhat annoyed that they weren't allowing server-to-server communications. That is, people on Google's Jabber network couldn't communicate with people on the "real" Jabber network. JF (with his @jabber.org Jabber account) just requested authorisation to add me to his list... via my Google Talk account. So it seems like the good people at Google changed their minds after all (or were intending to roll this out later all along). Pretty nifty. I'm not sure if they're allowing all server-to-server communication, or just some select few, but this is certainly a step in the right direction.
Update: Looks like Slashdot already has the news, and it is indeed open to all servers. Sweet.
Responsibility
In the past week, I've gone from sharing the workload of two products between two people, to being solely responsible (engineering-wise) for two (and possibly three) products. Fortunately, I'll have some help.
This will either be very very good, or very very bad. Either way, I'm not likely to have much of a life until April or May.
Disappointment
Ah, leave it to today's Slashdot poll to hit the nail right smack on the head. Yay option #2. sigh
Appfinder integration in panel
Hello people!
I’m finally back to xfce development. I apologize for my missing but i’ve been a lot busy with work and university. Now i hope to have some free time to dedicate to this fantastic project.
I’ve just committed a new patch to Xfce4-Appfinder widget, to re-enable drag and drop to other applications. It works as in the past and it send the name of the dragged .desktop file to the dropping application.
Xfce4-menueditor already support appfinder dnd for adding new entries and i’ll hope panel will do it soon.
What are your impressions about Appfinder?
Cheers,
Eduard
Two Dot Oh
Against my better judgement, I upgraded my weblog to Wordpress 2.0. Seems to be working ok so far.
GStreamer + DRM
Looks like GStreamer will support DRM in the future. What a damned shame. I'm definitely going to stay away from GStreamer now. I refuse to support a project that supports technologies that restrict what people can do with the things they buy.
I don't care about the supposedly-practical arguments: "well, there's DRMed content out there that we can't play, so we should support DRM." I don't want to be able to play DRMed content. I don't want DRMed content, period. The only way I will accept playing DRMed content is via a device or piece of software that permanently strips said DRM off the content, or can decrypt the content in a free (as in beer and speech) manner that can't be revoked or removed, such as how libdvdcss allows me to play encrypted DVDs.
If the content "owners" are going to treat their customers like criminals, then I might as well just become one.
Warm!
It's December 20th. Winter. It's 11:00 at night. It's 65°F outside. Isn't that ridiculous?
SPAM!
This has to be the funniest spam I've read in a while:
Hello, I am David Smith for Dailywillsupplies.We would like to buy computer accessories.Please can we have Pentium P4 3.0 775 pins computer processor?Or can you please tell us the brand of processors you have in stock and the price per unit of product.We are interested in buying in large quantity of 50 pcs,would like to have the quote for this product and also like to know the best form of payment for this transaction.We await your reply. Thank you. David SMith.
Interestingly, it was sent to my @ece.cornell.edu address, which I haven't used for anything in over two years. I'm actually surprised it's still active. I guess they forgot I left.