Archive for July, 2006

IconFactory Redesign

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

What a hilarious way of switching
to a modern web layout. Highly amusing. Too bad for the proprietary format. :(

Goldmark Industries, Inc.

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

I am genuinly interested in hearing how to filter the insane amounts of spam these days. I am getting roughly 200 messages like this daily. It features an image as the message body and adds a few random words to fool the bayesian filters. The headers don’t reveal anything obvious, Dear lazyweb, can you suggest something I overlooked or is this really the day I say goodbye to e-mail?

Ekiga Rocks

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

I’ve been aware of the Ekiga/Gnomemeeting project for quite some time, but until today I’ve underappreciated it. I’ve been using skype for the past few months as “it just worked”. The problem with the internet today is that it isn’t. Many networks don’t really have public IPs and NAT is very common even for home users. Many times we just gave up trying to dig holes in our firewalls to chat with Tuomas.

Rodo poked me today asking whether I have ekiga installed. In about a minute I was able to call him up and have a conversation in stunning quality. If my regular phone sounded this good…

If you haven’t, take a look at Ekiga even if you tried GnomeMeeting in the past. It actually “just works” (TM). Good Job, Damien.