freshmeat.net: Project Reviews – BitlBee: IRC vs. Instant Messengers
BitlBee apparently lets you talk with all your ICQ, Yahoo, etc. friends using you favourite IRC client. This is made possible by emulating an IRC server.
Very cool idea, although it seems a bit complex to start with. Now, I’m probably able to use Jabber only for IM and IRC for all the people who still use some old proprietary IM protocol.
Do you yahoo?
MikeRoweSoft settles for an Xbox | CNET News.com
I’m currently searching through german domains, which sound like microsoft. Maybe, I can get my hands on a XBox, too!
http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5150868.html
Sounds like Eclipse is already ahead of Sun in this context and SUN is loosing ground here. Why did Sun regret to join the Eclipse Consortium? This way they could start to influence this Consortium, instead of just blaming Eclipse to divide the Java tools world. Or they could probably think about making Netbeans use the Eclipse plugins and vice versa.
Update:
Did you know that they have James Gosling again as head of their development tools divison?
http://news.com.com/2008-7345-5148588.html?tag=nefd_gutspro
http://domino.research.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/pages/projects.html
Sounds like a great project. Now I only need to convince them to offer me an internship as part of this group…
Found this on freshmeat:
http://mute-net.sourceforge.net/
MUTE File Sharing is an anonymous, decentralized search-and-download file sharing system. Several people have described MUTE as the “third generation file sharing network” (From Napster to Gnutella to MUTE, with each generation getting less centralized and more anonymous). MUTE uses algorithms inspired by ant behavior to route all messages, include file transfers, through a mesh network of neighbor connections.
Does anyone actually use this? Sounds interesting though…
Got this from sharereactor Madonna wannabe.
If this is not enough look at this girl:
http://http.dvlabs.com/adcritic/t/o/y/toyota-tacoma-girlfriend.mov
Or the new britney, pink, beyonce pepsi commercial? Can’t get any more stupid!
http://213.248.114.91/pepsi/music2004hi.asx
Still some time left to kill with stupid movies?
http://www.strenge.be/cartoons/movies/movies.htm
Seems like Microsoft is finally doing something against the latest URL spoofing bugs in its IE browser: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;833786.
Ok, I have to admit that typing in every URL in the addressbar, instead of clicking links, firing up JScript commands to identify website spoofing and always using SSL/TLS doesn’t sound very user friendly. But hey, Microsoft was always very good in making things easy and transparent for users. So, my feeling is that we just have to trust them here…
Of course, instead you can also just stop using IE and download Mozilla instead. In fact, I’m writing this entry in Mozilla Firebird. It just took me too long to fire up my JScript to check if my blog is not spoofing me in any way.
Don’t forget to send Microsoft a message making them switch their website to a secure SSL/TLS thingy. This would at least provide us with a secure connection to their knowledge-base 
As I’m currently working on finishing my dissertation, I stumpled upon some very interesting spam message recently.
I’m writing about macchiato, a spam filter library, written in Java, where I’m using a naive bayesian filter to detect spam. Its an adaptive filter which gets trained by the user’s messages. As I’m close to finish this thing, I had to draw a line where I won’t go further optimizing the library – at least as part of my dissertation. Development will of course continue – Milestone M3 of Columba will have this integrated.
Now to my recent discoveries in the faszinating world of penis enlargements, horny women and nigerian millionars…
Most spam message tend to be written using HTML. Now take a look at the word Free in html:
Fr<font size=0>&nbsp;</font>ee
Did you see the trick? &nbsp; is actually just a space, but it has a zero font size, so it looks correct to the user, but my text tokenizer won’t recognize this word. It will recognize Fr and ee as independent tokens, though. Which makes no sense 
I’ll have to further improve the message tokenizer to be more aware of html than it is currently.
Salvatore pointed me to this flash game at http://smallbrainer.de/media/pingbase.swf
Did you ever read this article at JavaWorld?
Its an insanely complex thing it seems to implement drag and drop with Swing. Note, that the behaviour used in this article is the default one used in almost all Windows apps. This article is actually using the old-school DND code, using the awt package.
The new jdk1.4 DND code, guess what, doesn’t support dropping of folders between other folders. It just supports dropping folders into other folders.
Any suggestions here?
