Month: September 2003

Remember when I saw something strange in the plain text of an HTML email message? Sure you do… It’s happened again.

When viewing the message as HTML, it’s some crap about mortgage rates, but when viewed as plain text, you get this little bit from free papers on Julius Caeser:

Caesar knew that the Republicans believed rumours about him wanting the throne.19 He also realised the dislike of them towards him: “How can I doubt that I am heartedly disliked, when Cicero sits waiting and cannot visit me at his convenience? Yet if ever there was a good natured man, it was he… I am perfectly sure that he detests me.” 20 In order to dispel the rumours…

It’s as if people who don’t use HMTL email are being discriminated against. I mean, what if I want to fire my boss, or want some enlarged body part(s)? I’ll never even be given the opportunity. Instead I have to learn something educational about P.T. Barnum, or Julius Caeser. Sheesh!

A small update to the minigr skin for AmphetaDesk. Changed a link, and added 1/2 a line of code, which is really pure hackery, and will be fixed up properly when the next version comes out. (Right Morbus?)

As for my request about IM clients, I’ve been told to look at Proteus and Miranda. (Proteus is for Mac OS X, and Miranda is for Windows.)

I should have mentioned this the other day, in the same place I mentioned TexEdit. There’s an app called Text Reader. What does it do? Well, you open a text file, and it can read it aloud, or save it to an AIFF file. (Saving to an MP3 might happen in the future.) There’s AppleScript ways to do similar things, but this is a bit easier for most people.

Now, onto what I need. I need a command line application that can convert AIFF files to MP3 files, without the presence of QuickTime Pro. I’m sure there’s some open-source app out there that’ll do this and will compile on OS X right? If you know, please let me know.

In a certain workgroup I happen to be involved in, we’ve implemented IM using AIM. So while I personally would like to see our own Jabber server implemented (you know, security, control, and what not) for now AIM will do. The presence part of IM is something I find very interesting…

On to clients! For Mac OS X I use Fire, but for you poor Windows bastards there’s always Trillian. I’ve not personally used any version of Trillian, but I’ve heard a few people say that Trillian Pro is quite good. As for my own Windows box, I thought I’d try out Gaim. Gaim has a Windows port, which includes the GTK+bits, so it’s not a difficult install, and the features seem fine. (Again, I’m not an IM guru, so don’t take my opinion too strongly.) Gaim will do fine for those rare times when my Mac is unavailable.

Are there any other AIM/IM clients for Windows I should check out? (Open-source is preferred) Let me know…

Next on the to do list: perl aimbots