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ras-le-bol of spams

update: the reason why is simple: sending a legitimate email from myself@myjob.com actually using relay smart.isp.net from myhome.isp.net is not a spam.

WYSIWYG or structural edition : the next step.
I tried to use Nvu a little bit. It's an HTML WYSIWYG editor based on Gecko, the HTML engine of mozilla. After many clicks, i found that it was easier to edit HTML with Vim. Why ? because Nvu (as well as Dreamweaver) is not made for the HTML developper. It is very annonying to see that WYSIWYG editors don't rely on a structural edition. I still prefer to use TeXmacs or Lyx to do that. The next step on WYSIWYG edition is to rely on the structure of the document and then, the layout details can be made in a second phase. Anyway, Nvu is easier to learn than Dreamweaver and it's a good thing.

about the benefit of IRC

I never wonder until this morning how much IRC is important in my work life. I often can obtain quick answers to problems i encounter on mysql, php, apache etc.. and i want to thank especially the people i use to talk with on freenode. So freenode needs money ? ok, i'm gonna help.

Hey ! a long time i didn't come to Advogato... Passed some hard times in my private life... Well, now, i'm a brand new fresh project manager at Websites E-Business, France. I'm having fun with <?php... ?> and Apache administration. I abandonned all my private projects such as my "fuzzy search engine" :-( and also libspopc which, in spite of being not a serious pop3 library, is really used with success in embedded and tiny projects. I have really no time enough to spend for libspopc. However, i have to fix somthing to it : i must add session loss detection. Can anyone make it for me ? ;-) i'm always ok for patches comming in. So, don't forget: <!-- begin subliminal message --> libspopc needs you !<!-- end subliminal message -->

libspopc is now fully reentrant with -D_REENTRANT flag.

well, libspopc is now 0.5.4 and quite stable, thanks to the contribs. I am too lazy to focus on RFC2449 for nobody seems to need it... any demand ? i should make a poll :))

a bit of silence at home. reading Philip K Dick.

More and more piano these nights. Days are filled by learning Zope's python API.. Close to get an official new job.

It's surprising (and nice) to see my so quickly written pop3 library giving some interests.. to be ported on win32. Maybe it is just because of the easy API. Howerver, this will force me to rewrite the internals because it is really a dirty lib since it was first intended to be used by myself at home, without any expectation of quality or robustness. Well.. libspopc-0.4b is in the oven..

ah, at last i have found an easy way to access remote files without bothering with RFCs : gnome-vfs may be eventually my friend. Actually i'm not a gnome user, but if gnome-vfs is not too much dependent to the other libraries, i may have happy coding. Eh, i don't know why gnome-compliant applications doesn't use it as heavily as one would like for ftp/http/ and virtual folders. ah... virtual folders.. well.. it would be good to integrate it to the desktop. Current desktops are simply too much basic (even the great *put-what-you-want* one).

Btw, merci jschurger for barque which will help me (just by looking at your code) to learn a little the use of gnome-vfs.