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Re:Only a blurry fleck? Hubble to the rescue! on Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM · 2005-04-01 02:25 · Score: 5, Funny

What would they call it? Gooble? Gobble? Hoogle?

Re:multiple column buddy list? on Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0 · 2004-09-18 02:37 · Score: 1

I found that in a recent revision Gaim doesn't allow me to shrink horizontaly and is stopped based on the option buttons on the bottom of the window. In earlier versions these buttons would overlap to allow the resizing. The white space IS a problem which is unecessary for 99.99% of the time.

Re:in 3 years from now, no more DVDs? on George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes · 2004-09-17 05:36 · Score: 1

There will be DVDs. The 6 DVD set of Star Wars, the cartoons from in between Episodes 2 and 3. There may even be a Blu-Ray format DVD, or a 4K version to show at theatres with convenient re-release of the trilogy. He could drop 7-9 on us and re-release it all again.

Basically Lucas was pressured by market forces and not piracy concerns.

I mean all the work has been done digitising all his films, and that is the hardest part. Lucas just has to sit back with his film source and laugh it some more to the bank.

Re:Revisionist BS artist on George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes · 2004-09-17 05:26 · Score: 1

He still follows the "make it up as I go along" mentality in the new films. Just watch the documentaries on the Episode 2 DVD to see proof. Lucas would walk in and say he would like it some way, the animation staff do it that way, then he comments again. Even the bad guys are a crap shoot of drawings tacked on a large cork board for Lucas to point at and say he likes.

A very annoying statement on Are You Annoying? · 2004-07-24 09:18 · Score: 1

"It must be the firewall."

Port 25 blocked on Microsoft to Deploy SPF for Hotmail Users · 2004-07-23 05:45 · Score: 2, Interesting

What about in the situation I have where I have to use my ISP SMTP server to send ALL the mail I wish to send since they disallow access to port 25 for all servers other than their mail server (ie send a person@yahoo.com email through my isp.com SMTP server)? Since I'm tied to this scheme, apart from using a web interface, will SPF work in this situation?

Sony Ad on Apple Delays New iMac · 2004-07-01 22:16 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Is it just me, or was the photo shown on the article the recently unveiled Sony Walkman music device?

Re:Encryption on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · 2004-06-30 11:42 · Score: 1

Already ahead of you.

Quote:
"GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell."

Encryption on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · 2004-06-30 08:59 · Score: 3, Insightful

I think it may be a good time for people to start looking into ecryption.

Re:Really . . . on Build A Darknet To Capture Naughty Traffic · 2004-06-07 20:11 · Score: 1

Movement of elecrons doesn't have mass, it has inertia, since the electrons contain the mass. As for photons, no mass, on interia.

Crash on Mo' Beta Testing Blues · 2004-05-30 09:44 · Score: 1

I use Firefox 0.8 as my browser, and surprisingly when I clicked on the link to the Netscape Beta Browser download link (on second page of wired article) Firefox crashed. Ahh the joys of beta software.

Getting caught arguement on Online Plagiarist Sues University · 2004-05-30 06:22 · Score: 1

I know that the university lawyers are actively searching out if he had talked about the fact he plagarised, and he knew it was wrong, anywhere prior to the event of getting caught. His whole arguement hinges on the fact he didn't see that his plagarism wasn't a problem if he didn't get caught.

Also the fact that his signed onto a school with a contract of rules, even if was ignorant to the fact there were rules.

I watch far too much Law & Order.

Re:First step.... on Amateur Rocket Reaches Space · 2004-05-17 16:00 · Score: 2, Funny

And some lawnchairs and a few balloons.

Re:So I cancelled on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · 2004-05-17 15:57 · Score: 1

I didn't even start one. I looked into it as a method to use Mastercard, but it was just all for them in the end. Not worth my time or money.

What happened to the good old money order or certified cheque. Easier and less hassle, but maybe a $1 more in the end. I think that's worth it.

Dr. Sbaitso on Ask the Robotic Psychiatrist · 2004-04-19 05:22 · Score: 1

Anyone remember Dr. Sbaitso? I used to play play around with that for hours. Didn't help me at all.

Number of Accesses on Air Canada Sues Over Misuse Of Employee Password · 2004-04-06 23:23 · Score: 1

I think the 243,630 times the ex-employee Lafond accessed the site gave it away. That information was found in the CBC Business news.

Re:Compiling Gaim MSN plugin properly on MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients · 2003-10-16 09:55 · Score: 1

Here's some steps:
1. Get all the sources I listed on my original post
2. Compile and install libgcrypt-1.1.43
3. Compile and install libpgp-error-0.5
4. Compile and install opencdk-0.5.1. This requires to change some function calls in the source. I'll list the files and the functions to change.

src/seskey.c:144: - change
rc = gcry_mpi_scan (&a, GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, frame, &nframe);
to
rc = gcry_mpi_scan (&a, GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, frame, strlen(frame), &nframe);

src/seskey.c:173: - change
rc = gcry_mpi_print (GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, frame, &nframe, esk->a);
to
rc = gcry_mpi_print (GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, frame, strlen(frame), &nframe, esk->a);

src/pubkey.c:47: - change
gcry_mpi_scan( &d[i], GCRYMPI_FMT_PGP, m[i]->data, &nbytes )
to
gcry_mpi_scan( &d[i], GCRYMPI_FMT_PGP, m[i]->data, strlen(m[i]->data), &nbytes )

src/pubkey.c:177: - change
gcry_mpi_scan( &m, GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, md, &nbytes )
to
gcry_mpi_scan( &m, GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, md, strlen(md), &nbytes )

src/pubkey.c:217: - change
gcry_mpi_print( GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, NULL, &nbytes, m )
to
gcry_mpi_print( GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, NULL, strlen(NULL), &nbytes, m )

src/pubkey.c:220: - change
gcry_mpi_print( GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, buf->data + 2, &nbytes, m )
to
gcry_mpi_print( GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, buf->data + 2, strlen(buf->data)+2, &nbytes, m )

src/pubkey.c:584: - change
return GCRYERR_INV_PK_ALGO;
to
return 4;

src/keygen.c:469: - change
rc = gcry_mpi_print( GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, a->data+2, &nbytes, resarr[i] );
to
rc = gcry_mpi_print( GCRYMPI_FMT_USG, a->data+2, strlen(a->data)+2, &nbytes, resarr[i] );

5. Compile and install GNUTls-0.9.90
6. Compile and install Gaim-0.71
7. Run gaim with a debug window when connecting to MSN and see if the handshake works. It should

I hope that helps you and everyone having a problem building from sources.

Re:Compiling Gaim MSN plugin properly on MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients · 2003-10-16 03:10 · Score: 1

Actually it wasn't the Gaim code I had to change, it was OpenCDK, since GNUTls was having a problem compiling without it. When you try and compile the OpenCDK code you will see the problem with specific functions complaining of a wrong number of parameters. The functions are from the libgcrypt-1.1.43 interface and are: gcry_mpi_scan and gcry_mpi_print in the majority of changes. I'll alert the OpenCDK maintainer due to the change in the libgcrypt interface.

Compiling Gaim MSN plugin properly on MSN Messenger Kickbans Third-Party IM Clients · 2003-10-16 02:50 · Score: 1

In order to compile Gaim 0.71 and greater the best library to install is GNUTls. I compile all my programs from source and got GUNTls to work with the MSN plugin. In order to install GNUTls you need the following libraries:
libgcrypt-1.1.43
libpgp-error-0.5 (libgcrypt requires it).
opencdk-0.5.1 (This is required for the proper compilation of gnutls, since it doesn't properly check for the --no-opengpg flag in the configure script).
gnutls-0.9.90 (This version is reuired for the proper handshaking in the Gaim MSN plugin).

I know that also had to change some of the source code of gaim-0.71 (specifically file plugins/ssl/ssl-gnutls.c), since some of the functions in libgcrypt-1.1.43 had changed the number of parameters. The extra parameter is a size_t of the size of the buffer being passed. The older version of libgcrypt had done a sizeof inside the function, but now require the coder to supply the function with the size. I did this by passing the sizeof of the buffer to the function as a parameter.

The reason I went through all this is because the Gaim plugin would not handshake with GNUTls-0.8.11 because of a capability not being installed for certificate checking, which is found in 0.9.90, but 0.9.90 requires the libgcrypt-0.1.43 library. I am sending this post to the Gaim maintainers to let them know about the extra parameter needed to use the 0.9.90 GNUTls library.

After all this I got the handshaking to work (I checked the debug code for Gaim), and am happily able to log on MSN properly.

Re:USB support? on Linux 2.2.18 Released · 2000-12-11 11:50 · Score: 1

Thanks for the info. It was during the summer and SANE said that Canon wasn't releasing the info on the scanners. I'll check it out.