Idea for the day: Zeroconf + SOCKS4

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. ]

jwz on how sprintpcs

jwz and co (because the comments are the best part) figure out how to make a custom ringer, among other things.

Aaron on Compulsory Licensing

Aaron does a great job showing why Compulsory Licensing won’t work.

Also he should read Linked: The New Science of Networks to learn about all that crazy power law stuff.

bash.org: the movie

I have wasted too much time recently reading the bash.org irc quote repository. It occurs to me that you could probably write several Hollywood quality comdy movies from the material there.

Last names

If Laura and I used the same married name algorithm as zooko and Amber we would have (Joey outlines it in this post):

Scaamrmpoennter

Has a nice ring to it don’t you think?