sigh. how to tell sasl to not do plain ?

spent some time froliking with my shiny new VM from bytemark. they seem like decent chaps and my very own uml is the closest thing to a proper co-located machine :

did i mention my GR thing returned ? found some cool mods got hooked into some user designed campains. silly me.

more froliking with the s45, movie watching and stuff.

now you can keep track of The War without annoying texts! iraqometer!
however, they didn't seem to cover 2 portuguese reporters getting arrested, locked in a jeep for 36 hours and beaten up.

my canon s45 is here. joy. time to learn again again what are Fstops and the funny icons mean.
as expected, not much else got done.

As "They weren't rolling over the way we thought they would", "120,000 additional troops [are] being deployed to the region".
Meanwhile, Israel is back to errrrr "fighting terrorism".
The Guardian's George Monbiot shows how much the Geneva convention is worth for USA. I wonder if BBC is allowed there.

most remarkable thing today was the ammount of rain. that and the relentless attack on mirrors caused by the release of mandrake9.1

so, GR mods are crampin my hackin style. oh well.

some guy named mike decided it would be cool to deeplink to somwhere here. well, IT ISN'T. dude, if you're going to rip off pics from a random site at least have the decency of doing it right and copying them to your site. that way you a) don't piss off the original site b) don't get caught and c) don't run the risk of having the pic suddenly changed for a goatse pic.

blah rain et all. not much in the way of productivity.

Setup a newsisfree WarSpecial page. "all it could fit"

the day was mostly dedicated to home type stuff (type permiting and patience resisting i'll put the live-from-the-front chronicle of Operation: Enduring Squeege online) and IRS. The good news is acording to latest tallies i'm bound to get some money back. horrah.
while sorting IRS papers and typing numbers into small boxes and trying to figure out the deadly secrets of the code of IRS i managed to watch wonder boys.
omfg, are this people blind as well as "MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" users ?

on the hacking front some small advance was made on TreoGroups, mostly booring UI stuff.

Rumsfeld says public showing of PoW images is in violation of the Genever Convention. Action is expect against USA and UK.
Meanwhile, the missing UK reporters may have been killed by 'friendly fire'. The report also mentions US forces were also shooting at surrendering iraqi troops.
cnn reporting, fair as usual.

horrah saturday, house stuff got done and not much more.
fishy news: 2 tiggers died this week - they were *original* fish, 2 odd years old.

* OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2001 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. * CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT STARTTLS * OK CAPABILITY completed * STARTTLS * OK Begin SSL/TLS negotation now. Connection closed by foreign host.

soooo depressing

* OK XXXXXXX Microsoft IMAP4Rev1 Server ready at Sun, 23 Mar 2003 01:31:44 +0000 Version: 5.5.1877.767.76 * CAPABILITY * BAD Null command - no tag a001 CAPABILITY * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ AUTH=MBS_BASIC AUTH=DPA a001 OK CAPABILITY Completed

not less depressing :\

The friendly Israeli Democracy disciplines the press
Aparently a "fierce battle" was won against an iraqi mechanized division that surrendered yesterday.
But this is not just a bullet war, it's a war of words too. in a press statment an iraqi ranking officer called Bush&Blair "thugs" and "stupid". Meanwhile, the spanish are demonstrating on the streets and calling Aznar and Bush far worse.
However, Bush just wants to keep Saddam from reverse engineering Alien tech.

moderate day. findind a good webhosting is Hard. valuehost.co.uk which seemed fairly okish is running a 4 day email blackout. DoS, I see.
Pair never had email outages - go pair.

someone has been naughty on the balsa front. Operation: Enduring CVS.

USA may use biochemical weapons against Iraq.
meanwhile, Turkey moves into kurdistan.

And so the masspounding begun and Bush is already claiming Saddam is hidding troops in between civilians. Bush is schedule to gripe about iraqi troops shooting back tomorrow.
while several million USD worth of ordinance is dumped on iraq 10 billions (or thousand millions) are being dumped on israel. and everybody hates your guts. go figure.
I wonder how a county that claims to be blessed by God reconciles itself with being openly and violently critisized by God's PR on Earth. I guess it doesn't.

on unrelated news, a possibly exploitable buffer overflow in the imap code was removed from balsa. expect a 1.4 maintenance release RealSoon.

i thought i wouldn't touch PhoneOn again but installing it in a Treo300 showed just how much 1.0 was crap. To your CDMA delight, 1.2 was released.

there's great tediousness in palmos gui design. that's all i can say today.

removed the silly link of the month. not because it stoped being silly but because it stoped being 'of the month' several months ago. oh well.
however i present to you Charley Reese.

acording to cnn USA is planing to bomb Germany

oh where did today go ? i mostly remember house stuff, more fixing bean and playing with openvpn and ipv6.

oh, that and releasing serial bridge 0.3. i have achieved GPRS connectivity on the laptop. it wasn't rocket science after all.

spent the better part of the day playing with the cable configuration and general broadband stuff and most importantly - reinstalling bean after i accidently errr killed the root partition. fortunatly, I all my installs have separate /home :)
did i mention 'broadband stuff' includes shuffling 2 pci cards in hal make them irq happy fun ? i wuv peces.

gave in to the lust of 640kbps and got myself a cablemodem. why cable and not dsl ? for starters, currently I have an ISDN line and dsl on isdn is a PITA. also, i'm not into delayed gratification and between buying the cable package and internet goodness were like, 2 hours.
most of of all, it doesn't make me run PPPoE or PPPoA or any of the crap. dhcp and we're set. whopass.

well, installing the thing involved moving a NIC from sal to hal, and while i was at it i redid part of the teve cabling bits. oh, and why not connect the frontal usb ports to the mobo on sal ? sooo it pretty much took me all night :)

so TreoGroups is chuging along now that I figured out ringtones can be changed just before start ringing. now, for the very booring UI bits...

I wish Handspring would cherish developers instead of trying to milk them. You do understand developers add value to your products don't you ? m'k

oh look, GR:IT has 5 extra missions. and they're all *hard*. nevermind.
so between house, and GR and cathing up on web life and such nothing real got done. and i even haven't installed RogueSpear black thorn yet.

spent most of the morning geting the battery of the twingo replaced. definitly not happy fun, not a good surprise but oh well i saw it coming. it was totally my fault. gasp.
otoh the steering tunning and general wheel calibration made wonders

finished GR:IT (boohiakaxa!) and started working on TreoGroups. actually, looking into the possibility of implementing caller groups and ringtones and whatnot on the treo.

why oh why do i keep typing '&&' instead of & ?

nothing much happened today. did some more wife driven home improvement by applying a clever V shapped tape from tesa to the window sills and spent way too much time playing GR:IT (actually, being blown to bits. ouch)

on the hacking side released serialbridge 0.2 and tested real live connections, but the vodafone apn didn't play along :\

someone woke me up way too early considering it was a saturday morning. despite my efforts for a nice morning nap, which were thwarted by the evil SaturdayMorningPeople, i was rendered unable to function has a normal human being. sorry. no real today. not my fault!
soooo, a fair part of the day was spent geting killed and generaly blown to pieces in a GR:Island Thunder campaign.
a somewhat lesser chunk was spent putting up a light fixture for the baby. it's pwweetty.

modest not-really-advance was made on serial bridge. found out it doesn't actually freeze, it just blocks waiting for something (which shouldn't happen unless something lies), I get some kinky usb errors from it aaaand, most important the wireless modem always gives me 'no carrier'. I believe i'll have to explore the net connection manager and see how it goes about things.

did i mention i found out the goodness of gthumb ? here's (probably not permalink) a sample of it's handywork. 'automagical'

so, aparently some of the "evidence" presented byt usa about iraq nuclear plan is fake. not a big surprise considering the past.

today was dedicated to get twingo serviced and the bathroom fixed. both were acomplished with 100% success, and as an added bonus we also went grocery shopping and i got a bit of code written for serialbridge (no fixes buuhhh). horrah.

not only that but the postman delivered the parcel from amazon full of goodies such as GR: Island Thunder and AC Clarke books. now, if i didn't fudge my GR install by deleting bits of living under windows that seemed useless. more important if i could just *uninstall* and *install* it again but noooooo. it insists GR:DS *is* installed and that's why i'm getting a console.

a productive day. rotated twingo's tires in preparation for tomorrow's chekup and released serialbridge 0.1 for the brave souls. at this point i can say at to the wireless modem and it answers 'ok' and at some point when more data goes through the thing it pretty much stops answering events and needs a pin reset. stay tunned!

ok so, serialbridge crashes the treo miserably (or is it me pipping data into the wrong usb port ? hummmmmmmmm), I can't get serial to work on POSE - as far as i can tell it doesn't even open the ptyqe and I can't even talk to the wireless modem anymore with a palm terminal emulator thingie. something is ooohhh so very wrong.
not only that but today there was no SG-1. gggarrrrr

so, it's carnaval and stuff. it's not actually a real holiday but it always ends up being an holiday. horrah.
you know brazilians go all ape crazy with this carnaval business, like the country stoped last wednesday (not quite - i exagerate *everything*). we're not so whacked out on this business but several bunches of people seem bent on mimicing the brazilian carnaval, despite the fact we have *our own*. so you get a bunch of bikini chicks making like they know how to samba and it's not 10C and everything is happy fun and they're not freezing to death.
our version otoh is basicly masks, making fun of people and being silly. horrah.

despite all that sillyness, spent a good part of the day looking at serialbridge stuff writing code. this must be the hardest 7k of code i ever wrote (either that or i'm going stoopid). most of the time was consumed by my fundamental disagreement with palmos api and objID and objIndex. there's also the fact the serial bits of the thing can only be actually tested on a real treo and "Fatal Error [Reset]" isn't a big debuging aid. pose+gdb are a bit better thankfully.

discussão no gil. sobre blogs. ainda me lembro dos tempos em que conhecia tipo, 90% das pessoas que tinham blogs por cá. é obviamente a velhice a atacar.

opened the treo page with PhoneOn. go me. the good thing about the copy'past approach to PalmOS programing is a) it works b) makes for 2 hour coding sprees that generate real working programs. go me.

highly productive day, including several house type stuff, tank maintenance and some remodeling! - mainly make the stuff the usually floats around stick to the bottom installing and new fake log.

watched million dolar hotel, hacked on serialbridge (to the point where it actually nearly works - except it crashes), didn't pay nearly enough attention to balsa.

meanwhile, people coming from the far right political scenario are talking against The War and people in the right quadrant say everybody critisizes bush but noone critisizes saddam. hello, are you listening to yourself ? we know he's evil! everybody does! it's not like, up for discussion.

palmos gui stuff is Hard and booring. not actually hard, but so booring it gets annoying.
balsa2.1 is being discussed! we didn't even get 2.0 nailed down yet :) we're like, the future dude!
i *wish* i found my treo gpilotd patch. it's not rocket science but it took me a good 15 minutes to figure out.

brazilians do like their carnaval