Posted in Programming on Feb 24th, 2007
Gee, a bunch happened at once. Maybe it is just that I have a little bit of time. Anyway, I have finally made the announcement on Fire’s death. This was a long time coming, but I had to wait for Adium 1.0 to come out since it contained the upgrade path from [...]
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Posted in General, SysAdmin on Feb 24th, 2007
Well, it has been a long time since I posted here. The reason is not lack of things to say, but in fact the opposite. Much has been going on, but so much of it is in an unresolved state, I don’t want to say anything here about it (since this is open [...]
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Posted in General on Feb 24th, 2007
I work on Adium from time to time, and it currently has a major issue with file transfer. The problem is that the libgaim code used a particular method to detect if a socket was closed, but this method isn’t reliable since Adium wraps the sockets in CFSockets to detect activity. So, we [...]
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Posted in General, SysAdmin, Teaching on Feb 2nd, 2007
Well, the semester is now into its third week and things are going alright. I just had my first week of teaching lab, and things pretty much went as expected. The problem is that the students are expected to do some assembly within lab, but non of them have seen x86 assembly in [...]
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