I always wondered what was up with character encoding and I found an excelent article that explains how different encodings work as well as their various origins. While it is geared more towards developers, It shouldn't be hard for anyone to grasp the concepts that are explained within. But, rather than rehash someone else's work, I'll just give you a link: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Well, allpeers, while not being bad per se, didn't live up to my expectations. In all fairness, after all this buildup it would have been nigh on impossible to meet my expectations. Anything short of printing out pure Au would have failed. On the bright side however, Psyc has released psychzilla (wiki), which comes oh so close to my dream of a distributed peer-to-peer social network with chat, mail, homepages and filesharing. I really thought that I was going to have to embed torrent binaries in rss pages, broadcast them with feedtree, and pull it all together with a Firefox extension, a torrent extension and jabberzilla or mozchat(now called mango). Whew. Now you see why that wasn't such a good idea. more later.
So, It's been nearly a decade since I used irc. that should say more about irc than it does about me. I have to ait that irc is very... cool. I've already met some nice people... and met one complete asshole. So if you are on irc, connect to #ubuntu on freenode and tell gnomefreak I said "operator > nazi" I also recived a request from troy_s in #ubuntu-artwork to create an informational page for GDM themes on the ubuntu wiki. Yay. So if you want to see it, or you want to help, or if you are just monumentally bored, head on over to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/incoming/artwork/GDMthemeing [It's obvious that irc dates from a time when "command line" was not a dirty word; it's actually well thought out.]
After years of dreaming and more time searching than I care to admit, I seem to have found something very close to that for which I was looking. I have long dreamed of a decentralized "social network" that would allow users to communicate and exchange data. The Socialized.net is probably as close as I will get without writing it my own damn self. It would appear that there are four components implemented at the moment:
The TSN dameon A Gaim TSN plugin A firefox search (mycroft) TSN plugin An Azureus torrentsearch TSN pluginUsing the TSN dameon, you connect to the decentralized network. You can then chat with other members using the Gaim plugin, search for arbitrary content with the firefox plugin, and search for torrents witht he Azureus plugin.
XMPP Client Daemon: cross platform development environment for XMPP based applications. http://wxxcd.sourceforge.net/index.html Jabberpresence: verify the presence (online status) of your Jabber IM contacts. https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/867/ XUL jabber client http://jabberzilla.jabberstudio.org/ JabberXM is a set of bindings and components that can be used together to build a Jabber client in Mozilla. http://jabberxm.mozdev.org/ Jim is Jabber IM client written only in XUL and Javascript. http://jim.mozdev.org/ Nareau What is it? http://nareau.mozdev.org/what_is.html Email is too hard, so lets junk it. http://nareau.mozdev.org/messaging/index.html
howto: Hello world using python/gtk http://handhelds.org/~nelson/pyglade/pyglade-tutorial Creating a GUI using PyGTK and Glade: http://www.learningpython.com/2006/05/07/creating-a-gui-using-pygtk-and-glade/ Building an Application with PyGTK and Glade: http://www.learningpython.com/2006/05/30/building-an-application-with-pygtk-and-glade/ Howto to Talk with GoogleTalk in Python: http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/214.html Send email with attachment(s) in Python http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/2038 Python Email Libraries, part 1: POP3: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-Email-Libraries-part-1-POP3/ Python Email Libraries, part 2: IMAP: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-Email-Libraries-part-2-IMAP/ Python Email Libraries, part 3: SMTP and Email Parsing: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-Email-Libraries-SMTP-and-Email-Parsing/ Devshed python tutorials: http://www.devshed.com/c/b/Python/ PyGTK tutorials: gnomes tutorials http://www.pygtk.org/tutorial.html Developing Gnome Application with Python, parts 1 2 and 3: old http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/July2000/article160.shtml http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article224.shtml http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/November2002/article266.shtml A Beginner's Guide to Using pyGTK and Glade: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6586 Rapid Application Development with Python and Glade: writing a database application in glade using python/postgreSQL/gtk http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7421 Creating a GNOME Web Browser with Python: writing a simple mozilla-based browser with python/gtk http://patrick.wagstrom.net/tutorials/pygtkmozembed/pygtkmozembed.html Writing win32 applications with python and glade: writing a podcast client to download embedded torrents. http://www.pygtk.org/articles/bitpodder/BitPodder.htm Writing a Widget Using Cairo and PyGTK 2.8, parts 1 and 2 http://www.pygtk.org/articles/cairo-pygtk-widgets/cairo-pygtk-widgets.htm http://www.pygtk.org/articles/cairo-pygtk-widgets/cairo-pygtk-widgets2.htm Gstreamer based python audio player in no time: playing audio in python using gstreamer. http://base-art.net/Articles/67/ Implementations: email package: the official python email implementation http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/email-sig/ PyXMPP: Python Jabber/XMPPP implementation. http://pyxmpp.jajcus.net/ Pitivi: a python/gtk/gstreamer application for editing video and audio. http://pitivi.sourceforge.net/ Serpentine: a python/gtk application for writing cd-audio discs. http://s1x.homelinux.net/projects/serpentine/ PYGMY: a python/gtk mail client. http://pygmy.sourceforge.net/ SQmail home page: SQmaiL is a mail user agent that uses python/mysql/gtk. http://sqmail.sourceforge.net/ Shtoom: a voip application written in python http://www.divmod.org/projects/shtoom xmpppy: library that is targeted to provide easy scripting with Jabber http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/