Sat, 11 Feb 2006
One client to rule them all
I like
IRC. I like
AIM too,
although not as much as IRC.
Google
Talk, that's
cool too. I hear some people even use other
Jabber servers along with
ICQ,
MSN
and
Yahoo to send
little pieces of text back and forth over the internet.
Gaim
was cool for a while but what happens when you're in the data center and you
don't care about a GUI? Where are your AIM buddies now?
The answer is they are on
bitlbee, which is an IRC -> everything else gatweay.
You open an
IRC client connect to your bitlbee server, which can be on your
desktop or your own server somewhere on the internet, read the interactive instructions and log into your
accounts on all the IM networks you like. You can now send messages to your IM
buddies with a IRC client! So how do you get this for the fine, fine Debian
GNU/Linux system?
...
apt-get install bitlbee
Ha!
But there's a catch...the version in sarge doesn't support Google Talk because
of some tricks Google used with the jabber protocol. Fortunately, version 1.0
is in sid and someone was nice enough to backport it! Just follow
the instructions for
installing a backport and you should be right at home. Then register on your
bitlbee server and type
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A fast, indexable asset management system
T and I got into a conversation about indexing and controling assets for
creative applications, in particular graphic arts applications on Windows. She
was curious how the dewey decimal system works for books and thought it might be
a viable indexing system for various incompatible application files on a NTFS
filesystem. I mentioned that Debian handles indexing and searchning for it's
own software packages very well through compatible utilities and various index
files. She said she wanted a system that was abstracted from a specific
filesystem or even operating system. I assumed this to mean something based
solely on filenames.
My first instinct was that this is ridiculous but then reconsidered when the
dewey decimal came up. That's an indexing system that's infinitly scaleable and
has been tested through time. But I don't know enough about it's effectiveness
for anything other then published books.
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