The Stream

Found PBase, a really nice photo database. It has many interesting galleries and provides a good search engine where you can search photos by keyword, by country (and city), and even by a camera type.

Some quick links:

• China
• Hong Kong
• Poland
• Ukraine
• Spain

A lot of rants about Google's recent proprietary Desktop Search tool. Right now, it's poor and MS Windows-only. It sucks, but we can use Beagle instead!

There is time for everything.
-- Thomas Edison

Update: It is a very good album. The more I listen to it, the more I like it.

Gran Turismo

Shadow-Man!

Everything goes so fast when you want it to last

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GNU Anubis 3.9.96 Released

I think the most important addition is a new automatic test suite for the Dixie mode, because doing manual tests takes a lot of time and it is drudging. As I already mentioned it earlier in my blog, we have adjusted the format of plain text database, which allows now for inclusion of empty fields. I'm also very happy to see those less user-visible changes, like the XELO extension, the use of MD5 checksums when checking user configuration file on a remote machine, and the recent error handling improvement.

According to our roadmap, version 4.0 will be released on December 15th, 2004. Uhm, so less than 3 months remain, but we are going to hit that date, you can bet on it :).

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At long last...

Star Wars Trilogy on DVD!

Translucent Windows in X. See the remarkable samples. I like this one best as it's quite impressive for me.

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libmu_cpp hacking

A lot of new stuff... Added new classes (but not always complete): List, Iterator, Mailer, Pop3, and improved rest of the code.

Anubis

Jim Cheetham suggested an interesting thing in his post on bug-anubis.

I converted all my previous 4:3 photos to 3:2 format, which I prefer more.

The Good Old Times

Thanks to ScummVM, once again I was able to run hilarious The Secret of Monkey Island game. Last time I played it about 10 years ago! It reminded me of the good old times :).

I love this game's specific humor!
Hah, I even ran the second part...

I have moved my home page to a new location at wilk. Thanks Bartek!

The new iMac G5 looks pretty!

libmu_cpp hacking

Today I added the FilterStream class that derives from the Stream and provides filtering mechanism, i.e. quoted-printable, base64, etc. Now I am able to run the exemplary iconv.cc. Moreover, I extended the Stream class and successfully ran new murun.cc.

I think the project work is slowly going in the right direction, but there is still a lot of work to be done. I definitely must put more effort into this. I wish I had more free time...

View from my apartment.

A reflection upon...

It's almost a rule that every music band releases an album of singles, often calling it "The best of ...", etc. This !@#$#*. First of all, because it is (I believe) only about money. Second of all, if you're a fan of any group, then you usually have all the albums and you don't need the stuff like this. It's even more annoying when, as an addition, the singles collection contains a bonus material, like one or two new songs never released before. Sigh.

This time it is Placebo. The band announced that on 25 October they will release a collection of their singles-to-date, entitled Once More With Feeling: Singles 1996-2004. I have all their four albums (each absolutely great) and normally I wouldn't do that, but this time I'm going to make an exception and buy it (but of course only if I will like the two new songs).

Anyway, I don't like the idea of releasing the singles collection when a band or artist is still active.

Yeah, nice rumor. Don't fool yourself, kids ;).

As every week this summer, I spent the Saturday outside the city. This time I took fifty new photos. I'll put some of them here in a future.

libmu_cpp hacking

I added overloaded [] operator to Mailbox and Header. This small hack allows to replace the code like this:

Message msg = mbox.GetMessage (1);
Header hdr = msg.GetHeader ();
cout << hdr.GetValue ("From") << " "
     << hdr.GetValue ("Subject") << endl;

Message msg = mbox[1];
Header hdr = msg.GetHeader ();
cout << hdr["From"] << " "
     << hdr["Subject"] << endl;

I think it's quite nice :). I will also use this scheme in other parts of the library.

blogRight!

Sergey hacked the code for generating the calendar. Good work, man! I just adjusted it to generate the layout I use here.

Software

Anubis: A lot of new stuff. First of all, we finally have a long-awaited Dixie's testsuite. Second of all, it's now possible to omit the `account' field. Now we need more Dixie's specific tests. We have also a plan to rewrite and improve the error handling subsystem, because the current doesn't suit our needs anymore (and it's awful). BTW, thanks Sergey for the great work!

libmu_cpp: Added the Mailcap class alongside with the exemplary program.