Software

Text editor’s future

03/02/2008

I remember when I created my first website, totally different reality from today, the only tool to create a website for “normal” people was geocities and it was not as easy as to create a blog nowadays. Blog was a tool used exclusively by geeks, no normal people had one and it was not a very common word, my first website had one, coded with my own hands with comments and other resources, and since I used Emacs for everything I needed an interface to blog from Emacs. I created one and worked smoothly, it had syntax highlighting differentiating the…

Where are the hackers?

19/01/2008

I grew up in the middle of hackers, people that learned assembly before even speak, intelligent gentleman seeking the understandings of computers and systems, real computer lovers. Being in front of a computer 20 hours a day couldn’t be considered work, we grew, the first one of us started working, then another one, until one day everyone was well employed and starting a business life. I always though that we were the beginning of many similar generations, that in ten years we would see ten times more hackers doing brilliant things for the world, but I was wrong, months ago…

How Launchpad helped Inkscape

04/01/2008

Inkscape started using Launchpad, this is one of that moments where an image speaks better then a thousand words. Mark has more details about it.

WISPr Spec – Wireless ISP Roaming

27/12/2007

“(…) Best Current Practices for Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) Roaming. (…) WISPr was chartered by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the recommended operational practices, technical architecture, and Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) framework needed to enable subscriber roaming among Wi-Fi based Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs). This roaming framework allows using Wi-Fi compliant devices to roam into Wi-Fi enabled hotspots for public access and services. User can be authenticated and billed (if appropriate) for service by their Home Entity (such as another service provider or corporation).” Download WISPr V. 1.0!

IRC logs in a public searchable database

06/12/2007

“New Israeli startup IRSeek is indexing public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels at the rate of 6 million conversations a day. 300 million conversations have now been indexed by the company. The most popular networks, including EFnet, DALnet, Freenode and QuakeNetUndernet, are all being monitored – IRSeeK is now “listening” to 2000+ channels across 10 networks.” Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/30/will-irseek-have-a-chilling-effect-on-irc-chat

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