UPnP NAT Traversal

I can’t really claim credit for this: more than a year ago I had started to write code to interface with the NAT box at my office via UPnP. I never finished but passed the python code on to one of the divmod guys. They put that in CVS, made major changes but didn’t get it working. Raphaël Slinckx now has taken that code and got it working resulting in Nattraverso. Good Job!

I see that he requires a SOAP library, so that means the a) python SOAP libraries have evolved enough to deal with the “not quite SOAP” used in UPnP, or b) He’s targeting some new UPnP spec.

I have no UPnP NAT box now to test on.

Inventive spam

Musta seen Three Kings recently:

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Why use ctypes over python C extensions

Why ctypes for OpenGL? describes many of the reasons why I prefer ctypes over c extensions.

Annoyances

• thunderbird still does not spell check the subject of emails.
• thunderbird spell check is the worst at finding the correct options
• mac mini’s have a STUPID cd eject button that confuses everyone I know that has one (3 different computer users).
• HP All in One printers suck and will do crazy things on the mac then point you to do some voodoo to fix it. Try to imagine how fun this is going to be to talk my grandfather through all these steps.
• Computers suck… you stare at them all day making your eyes get worse. If you install software to force you to take a break you go crazy having to pause for 10 seconds ever 10 minutes.
• QT4Java sucks. Apple’s docs suck.

“If you really loved me you’d kill yourself.” — spider jerusalem

Firefox popups

Blocking Plugin Popups in Firefox. You’d think this would be on by default.