Well, the mail move took place with some mixed results but it’s all done now and the rest of the changes to teh site structure are slowly taking shape. I’m much happier with the way it all works now and think it makes more sense and certainly offers people more power to control their own [...]

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There are some things that I really don’t like changing unless I have to - mail servers and anything server side related to mail being high on that list. So, having decided that a more flexible server setup was needed for mail I decided to start upgrading and will make the swap tomorrow night. Of [...]

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I’ve managed to make some good progress in getting OpenSSH to build under BeOS BONE. It builds everything though some of the “fixes” aren’t yet real but simple no-ops, The lack of AF_UNIX support is a problem that stops us from using some of the functionality, but I suspect that we can live without those [...]

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Just been to see Kill Bill volume 2 and I’m still in shock! How could I have given just over 2 hours of my life to this film? The acting wasso overblown and over the top that most children could have done better and as for the dialog…
It seems that once a director gets to [...]

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Customer service isn’t that hard really. Ultimately it boils down to doing what you say you’ll do. That’s all there is to providing good service. Why then do so few businesses get it right?
I recently bought a box of 12 bottles of wine for a friend, ordering them to be delicered while they were away. [...]

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Just back from cairo where I decided that I’d go see the pyramids. I’d heard plenty of horror stories about what to expect and the experience lived down to most of them (no crowds of anti-western youths hurling abuse at us thankfully). The actual pyramids are very impressive, but it’s hard to really appreciate them [...]

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In every group there will always be those who dislike things, who moan constantly about the small little bits that aren’t quite as they’d like while happily ignoring the effort taken to get the bigger problems solved. So it is with those involved in BeOS/Zeta. The 20th time that the same people bring up the [...]

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After moving libpeople over to it’s own repository and getting the simple build stuff done I found a simple cut’n’paste bug. Once it was fixed I turned my attention to actually getting it tagged and released, something that I hadn’t done before under subversion. Turned out to be quite straightforward though rewriting the script to [...]

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There have also been a few moans about the formatting of code, so this is just a test

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf(”hello world\n”);
return 0;
}

Indeed it does seem to want to transform \n into br / but also seems to leave behind the \n inside the pre [...]

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Just looking at how this works with pictures…

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I’ve been doing some work on getting openssl to compile “out of the box” over the last few days. Peter Moore has done an amazing job keeping up with releases but as he admitted he just hacks each release so it works This seems as though it’s the standard approach taken by BeOS developers [...]

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When I read that the MSn plugin for the im_kit needed a crypto lib other than OpenSSL I was amazed. OpenSSL has become a defacto standard and so not using it looked like insanity. When discussing it I was even more surprised to be told that it hadn’t worked! Peter Moore (hi Peter!) has spent [...]

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After enduring much brainwashing about the benefits of BString I’ve finally seen the light and have spent some time over the last few days altering libpeople to make greater use of BStrings. I’ve also added filtering, iterating through and even sorting! The api could do with some review and some of the older classes should [...]

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Don’t worry, it’s not about that book, but rather a response to the feedback i’ve had about my previous post (BeClan a failure so far). I’ve had a nice range of feedback from people who read it and it’s led me to believe that more explanation is needed!
When I started promoting the concept for BeClan [...]

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So, this morning I was in the IRC channel for the im_kit (a cool project that deserves more attention) and a question arose about adding an attribute to a people file. I’ve been working on libpeople which now features 3 classes with the aim of allowing easy use of people files. In an effort to [...]

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