In this case, the left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they’re both giving you the finger. (link)
And a lovely quote, too.

Actually, I can't claim to have originated this. Somewhere along the line I picked up the word "fishslap", as in whacking someone across the face with a fish, a notional punishment applied via IM or other online chat for bad jokes, etc. When I wrote the office IRC bot for the company I worked for before my current employment, I included the ( Read more... )

Feb 20th: Microsoft dings Amazon's S3. Actually, it's more of a puff piece promoting Small Business Server 2008, and the "ding" in question is a passing comment at the start, where the head guy for Small & Medium Business at Microsoft complained that it'd take weeks to upload all his data to the aforementioned online storage service.

Feb 22nd: ( Read more... )

Out of curiosity I just grepped my access log to see who (if anyone) had downloaded my freebie half-assed RVP server. Aside from bots, there was a 13. address, which I fed to whois, and got:
OrgName: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center ( Read more... )

This is my RVP plugin for Gaim. This is my RVP plugin for Gaim on wwexptools. Any questions?

I've been working on a plugin for Gaim to allow it to connect to Microsoft Exchange Instant Messaging. It's reached the point where it's actually usable and mostly doesn't destroy major cities when you run it. This morning someone emailed me to say he's pushed it for inclusion in Gentoo's package list. On one hand, yay, distribution; on the other ( Read more... )

So if you're working in a corporate environment where the in-house messaging of choice is Microsoft Exchange Instant Messenger, but you're not inclined to use a Windows machine, please to be availing of my RVP (Rendez-Vous Protocol?) plugin for Gaim 1.0.1 (and possibly upward) which will allow your Linux machine to talk to such a system. Also, ( Read more... )

Microsoft's RVP protocol, wherein you will find an image of an ASCII diagram.

So, to get the basics out of the way, I hate XML. I'm forced to deal with it for a hack I'm fiddling with right now, though. And having poked this with a stick for the last week, I've finally found the problem: I am sending data formatted as and the client wants , i.e. the order of the contained elements turns out to be important. Now, as far as I ( Read more... )

The Dave Matthews Band says: Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation from Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this issue. To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to contact Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to move content from ( Read more... )