07 Aug 2003
On my wishlist is a Treo 600 for which you will be able to add a SD BlueTooth Card. I think the CPU in the Treo could do Chuam blinding.
From the end user could go to the checkout counter, open the wallet app on his palm, then the store employee could hit the “ecash” button on the register, which would set up a connection with the wallet and the wallet would report to the user how much he is being charged. With the network capablities of the Treo you could download more cash from your bank if you need, transfer money with someone else and check for double spending.
07 Aug 2003
Some kind person has put scans of the Neuromancer graphic novel. It’s very 80’s looking sci-fi stuff, and only the first 3rd of the book. Since I read Neuromancer in the 1993 my vision of what the book was a little diffrent (and later shaped by the Johnny Mnemonic movie), but it’s intresting to see Gibson to say that’s what he was thinking of.
Also, I did a bit of back issue buying last night… I will soon have all of Transmetropolitan in some form or another and I can read it front to back.
#cyberpunk
07 Aug 2003
I was sad to hear that St. Jude passed on. Lots of intresting reading at her virtual wake.
07 Aug 2003
On Tuesday, my friend’s ISP where this computer is hosted was hit by lighting. Everything was protected, but it knocked out the power and UPS. So K92 (this computers name) went down. We had LILO as a boot loader and it hung just saying “LI” on the screen. Steve was too busy with paying work to get to fixing this.
This morning we put the drive in misfit, the mail server and I fsck’ed and then installed GRUB, a mo’ betta bootloader, and now everything is happy, and the bunnies jump thru the field.
06 Aug 2003
After spending much too long trying to figure out if I wanted to deal with the greif of implementing a UPnP Gateway with Twisted, I thought of another idea: Use Zeroconf to advertise a SOCKS4 server. That shouldn’t be too hard to do in Twisted, just need a zeroconf module, and a mDNS server.
And client developers could probably make use of Howl to do the zeroconf stuff. SOCKS4 is even easier (or so I’m told). Also Howl seems to have a mDNS server for linux… so we just need debian packages.
On a side note, now that I look at the howl tarball I see that it’s GPL’ed… why oh why do you GPL a library. :(.
[ Later: I heard back from the Howl developers that the license supposed to be BSD and will be in the next release. ]