I hate the tv

This took me by surprise. AOL has long been a closed lip, closed source company…usually they just leave people high and dry without any information. Now I’d guess gaim and trillian can expland their working feature set to include file transfers, etc.

So what is their motivation to open up? Is is pressure from GoogleTalk? Are they worried that Micro$oft will lock them out of the handset market with their next gen Windows Mobile + MSN client? Maybe its Skypebay thats worrying them, or the cellular companies building SIP networks.

Whatever it is, I am very very happy to see this and I applaude the manager who made this decision. A few more good deeds like these and I may forgive them for killing Nullsoft Winamp, Netscape and Mirabilis ICQ.

If only I knew about this back when I used a smartcard laundromat.  I found nothing on the site that they provided, when I emailed I got this link

MAxxus, a force behind the osx86 project has posted a detailed piece on how he cracked the Skype 5 way limit for non-Intel dual core processors. He concluded that the check details were:

If it’s a CPU with “GenuineIntel” branding and has at least two cores, then allow 10 users; else limit to 5 users.

The article gives a good view of what x86 assembler hacking is like. There is none of this kind of thing involved:

I’ve changed to Wordpress as you can probably tell. XOOPs just involved too much effort on my part and I didn’t have the time to deal with it. WP so far seems like much more of what I wanted.

I’ll post some stuff when I get a chance. What a change of pace that would be, actually posting stuff rather than fucking with XOOPs.