RasterWeb!Well, I finally did get jabberd running under Linux yesterday, it was just a matter of fixing a line in the config file. I found this after googling… er, I mean, searching the web for the problem I was having.
Next on the list is Net::Jabber, which ultimately should provide a nice little notification framework. We hope.
Of course being that perl is so damn powerful, it can also be a powerful headache. More to come…
Says Dave of one of my old hang-outs:
There would be some closure to stopping in Madison on the way back east. When I moved to California in 1979, my departure point was East Johnson Street in Madison.
Johnson Street, ah the memories… It almost brings a tear to me eye…
(Hey Dave, as you leave Madtown start waving, if I see you an hour later, I’ll wave back…)
We went to the Apple Store last weekend. It was actually Emma’s idea. (I’m a proud dad!) So while the girls played Barbie games on the eMacs (under OS 9 interestingly enough) I checked out all the hardware. Damn technolust!
That iPod. Wow. 20 Gigs. Tiny. And it plays music. Out of my price range.
12″ PowerBook. Nice. Very nice. Tiny. Out of my price range.
17″ PowerBook… oh, not out yet… Pretty sure it’s out of my price range.
So I was using a nice shiny new PowerMac G4 and I tooled around iPhoto a bit, and got the spinning beachball, or lollypop, or whatever it is in Jaguar. I thought, “Well, no surprise, I get that a lot on my G3/250mhz Wallstreet, and my G4/400mhz at work, and even my G4/733mhz at home.” So I looked at the little sign, and realize I’m using a PowerMac G4 with dual 1 Gig processors.. and 1 Gig of RAM.
But I’m not worried, any day now Apple will come out with faster hardware, with more processors, and more RAM slots, and someday my friends, the spinning beachball, or lollypop, or whatever it is in the current version of the Mac OS, will be a distant memory…
Of this I am sure. Maybe.
Now this makes me peeved… I’ve been trying to install jabberd, the Jabber server. Now, I try on Mac OS X, no luck, I try on Yellow Dog Linux, no luck, but that’s a whole other problem involving GCC that I won’t get into. I then try under Red Hat Linux, and while things seem to work, there are some firewall issues I haven’t resolved yet. I decide, against my better judgement, to try the Windows version. It works. And, it was easy. Damn. I hate you Windows…
Officially the Windows version is ‘unsupported’ and I don’t plan to use it for anything more than testing… So there.
And yes, I’m once again looking into Jabber as a presence and IM platform.
(Try me at rasterboy@jabber.org if you must…)
It’s nice to see that Mark is now providing a mobile edition. It’s a good thing he didn’t decide to provide a Mobile Edition, or we might have had to unleash the lawyers…