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Hacking

In a last few days I made several hacks in GNU Mailutils. And today GNU Anubis 3.9.93 has been released. This version is a maintenance release over the previous one. Today I also took Mailutils entry at Freshmeat.net.

Music

I just found a nice piece of sound: Every You Every Me by Placebo. I like this band, but weird is that I didn't know this song before. It is really good. This Saturday Placebo will give a concert only 120km away from me, and I won't be there :(.

I am thinking about a new authentication mechanism for GNU Anubis, i.e. without the auth service (Identd). Running an Ident daemon is not always possible. The ESMTP authentication is also not the answer. It is so frustrating, why the creators of socket interface did not think about the remote authentication while using AF_INET? What a pity... Unix(7) says that there is a solution with SCM_CREDENTIALS (SCM_CREDS?) and SO_PASSCRED, but only for AF_LOCAL, and even this isn't much portable. The mechanism for sending unix credentials over the AF_INET would help me a lot!

Eureka!

I think I've found a good solution for my recent problem with the authorization mechanism in GNU Anubis. The idea is quite innovative and requires adding a new special mode. Probably it will take an extra 3 months to implement and test the solution. Right now, I won't write any details about it. Be patient.

Movies

Recently I saw Pirates of the Caribbean with an excellent performance by Johnny Depp. This is good and very entertaining movie. Johnny is cool. I can't wait to see Once Upon a Time in Mexico, here in Europe. I also saw a beautiful movie called Hero, which IMHO is good as or even better than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

"I dreamt music."

I just watched Welcome to 2019 with an alternative music for Blade Runner. Yeah, it's a fan fiction videoclip, but very cool, and Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine alongside BR movie -- outstanding! Although I am a big fan of Pink Floyd music, I still think that the original soundtrack by Vangelis is one of the best ever made and the only one right for this great movie. I also hope that "BR: Special Edition DVD" isn't only a rumor...