Re: [jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

2010-07-11 Thread Neil Stevens
On Jul 10, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Matt Mason wrote: > It could be that no updates = stability! I know for me, the more often something demands I update, the less likely I am to recommend it to anyone. -- Neil Stevens - n...@hakubi.us If you're seeing shades of gray, it's becau

Re: [jdev] [OT] XMPP icons

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Stevens
conclusion, so I doubt that the 'Bulb logo' versus 'XMPP logo' will come to an end. Sounds like time for someone to come up with "XMPP Bulb Logo" ;) Hey, you got XMPP in my bulb! Hey, you got bulb in my XMPP! -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're see

Re: Re : [jdev] how to program a jabber game server

2007-02-01 Thread Neil Stevens
Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:18:58PM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote: >> Actually for a game like battleship, and any game with incomplete >> information, you HAVE to do everything server-side. Otherwise it's too >> easy to cheat. >

Re: Re : [jdev] how to program a jabber game server

2007-02-01 Thread Neil Stevens
omplete information, you HAVE to do everything server-side. Otherwise it's too easy to cheat. -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [jdev] jabber.org software listings

2006-11-22 Thread Neil Stevens
subjects without a requisite amount of notoriety. This may prevent such a list maintained there from being all-inclusive. -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [jdev] Talk <-> AIM

2005-12-22 Thread Neil Stevens
, which would only be big companies with closed services they feel threatened by, I suspect. Anyone who threatens their single-company, monolithic-design model that AIM is based on, like full XMPP with open server-to-server connections, can't be welcome to AIM strategists. - -- Neil Stevens -

[jdev] Re: Lack of C++ libraries & Xmpp Succes

2005-06-18 Thread Neil Stevens
On Saturday 18 June 2005 12:44 am, Tomasz Sterna wrote: > Iris would be a great option for any XMPP development as soon as > QtLite finally comes to existance... Qt 4 will be separated out into multiple libraries, so you could use the core and network parts without the GUI. -- Neil S

[jdev] Re: Jabber Spoofing on unique server

2005-04-02 Thread Neil Stevens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 April 2005 03:17 am, Richard Dobson wrote: > A form of DNSRBL might be useful for this. Enforcement mechanisms are easy. Ways of determining who should it should be enforced against are the hard part. - -- Neil Stevens - [EM

[jdev] Re: Using jabber for playing go

2005-02-03 Thread Neil Stevens
ment that should give you what you need. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'A republic, if you can keep it.' -- Benjamin Franklin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAjHTf7mnligQOmERAiNmAJ4wm4h6ZCh+8CodDtLcjw+cFM0MnQCghO8o Cw8

[jdev] Re: IMPORTANT: JSF/JabberStudio Service Update

2005-01-26 Thread Neil Stevens
and don't like having to worry if your code got changed, try using something else instead! A system like GNU Arch is more flexible in its branch management and multi-developer development, too, so there could be benefits beyond data integrity, too. It's worth a try, anyway. - -- N

[jdev] Re: Use of $Id$ in source files

2004-12-22 Thread Neil Stevens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 22 December 2004 07:12 am, Thomas Charron wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 03:05 am, Neil Stevens wrote: > > The idea makes merging harder because it adds unnecessary conflicts > > (as any two branches will have conf

[jdev] Re: Use of $Id$ in source files

2004-12-22 Thread Neil Stevens
than 80 bytes to the > Source file answers the question immediately. Yes, it is sub-optimal, and implies a badly-maintained project if you have to do that. The way to fix that is to tell whoever's running the project to start tagging the CVS when releases are made. - -- Neil Stevens -

[jdev] Re: Use of $Id$ in source files

2004-12-22 Thread Neil Stevens
knows the version you checked out; use cvs status: > cvs status index.rhtml === File: index.rhtml Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.46Tue Dec 21 03:22:20 2004 Repository revision: 1.46/home/neil/.cvs/neil/index.rhtml,v Sticky Tag: (none) Sticky Date:

[jdev] Re: TLS and self-signed certs

2004-11-18 Thread Neil Stevens
siness in certificates is not. Trusted third parties in DNS are required. Trusted third parties in encryption are not. So I'd rather not see the use of encrypted Jabber connections tied to the use of a redundant third party. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The world is a da

[jdev] Re: TLS and self-signed certs

2004-11-18 Thread Neil Stevens
e to verify if someone is allowed to apply for > a certificate. One man's trusted body is another man's corruptable agency. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the peopl

[jdev] Re: TLS and self-signed certs

2004-11-11 Thread Neil Stevens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 November 2004 09:44 pm, David Waite wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:54:49 -0800, Neil Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, remember that different people have different threat models to > > address

[jdev] Re: TLS and self-signed certs

2004-11-11 Thread Neil Stevens
ct that. ssh does this, for example. Also, remember that different people have different threat models to address. Someone in the old hypothetical revolutionary conspiracy can't afford to depend on large institutional corporations to sign their certificates, but still might want to protec

[JDEV] Re: FW:Right to Left Unicode

2004-01-15 Thread Neil Stevens
ight Hawk, because it's building on KDE's established support. Kopete should have a good chance at it, too. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any person or government that supports, protects, or harbors terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and will be he

[JDEV] Re: C++ Jabber Client

2004-01-05 Thread Neil Stevens
Qt to use. I'll post more details > later, but for now you can dig it out of CVS using the details here: > http://psi.affinix.com/?page=development Both Light Hawk and Kopete managed to make use of your old library anyway, though. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Any p

Re: [JDEV] Jabber and spam?

2003-06-21 Thread Neil Stevens
ndom server with open registration (eg. jabber.org) and start spamming > at [karma x 500] messages per second? Your two paragraphs answer each other. Once XMPP is popular, open registration demo servers can and will have to be discontinued. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The shepherd driv

Re: RE: [JDEV] yahoo issues anyone?

2003-01-25 Thread Neil Stevens
n they haven't classify > as humour???? Well, isn't a lot of their userspace Unix environment from BSD? Bah, never mind. :-) - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a state bound to defend the equal protection of

Re: RE: [JDEV] yahoo issues anyone?

2003-01-24 Thread Neil Stevens
t; > > Yeah, they already moved to FreeBSD. > > Urm no actually its MacOSX which runs on Darwin which uses the Mach > kernel, its not FreeBSD. Nobody has a sense of humor anymore. :-) - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insid

Re: RE: [JDEV] yahoo issues anyone?

2003-01-23 Thread Neil Stevens
es an edge, no matter how slight. > > Yahoo abandoning YIM for Jabber is about as likely as Apple abandoning > the Mac OS in favor of Linux... ;-) Yeah, they already moved to FreeBSD. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that

Re: [JDEV] OT: AOL Patents IM (Patent creates IM wrinkle )

2002-12-17 Thread Neil Stevens
a specific node on the network, though. The patent talks about not being tied to one computer on the network. - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your Friends'." - Benjamin Franklin

Re:[JDEV] s2s over ssl

2002-12-16 Thread Neil Stevens
down right now to bring it in line > with XML standards. JEP-0027: http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0027.html - -- Neil Stevens - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delenda est Carthago -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gn