Monthly Archives: December 2009

Facebook XMPP chat soon?

Well it’s looking like it… —- cleartext01 ~: telnet chat.facebook.com 5222 Trying 69.63.181.104… Connected to chat.facebook.com. Escape character is ‘^]’. quit <?xml version=”1.0″?><stream:stream id=”none” from=”chat.facebook.com” xmlns=”jabber:client” xmlns:stream=”http://etherx.jabber.org/streams” version=”1.0″><stream:error><xml-not-well-formed xmlns=”urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:xmpp-streams”/></stream:error></stream:stream>Connection closed by foreign host. cleartext01 ~: —-

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‘Conroy explains his magic filter’

Listen to Conroy on filtering, is he deliberately missing the point? It’s not about performance and what you’re blocking it’s about the fact that a western democracy is putting a Chinese type firewall in place. Let’s not even get into … Continue reading

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Why ‘tweeting’ could go realtime & how XMPP can help

I was flicking through an older Slideshare presentation called ‘Microblogging via XMPP‘ (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) and it occurred to me that whilst there’s no doubt Twitter has redefined public internet messaging it’s not speeded up one to one … Continue reading

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God

I believe that IF there was a God then this God would see us all as equals under one church. I’ve formed the opinion that the core values mainstream religions teach strive to create compassionate, honest and caring attitudes towards … Continue reading

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re: Exchange 2010: Niggling Fears About Storage Requirements

I was just reading this Ferris piece on Exchange mailbox sizes and thought it would be useful to document Cleartext’s strategy for our hosted email clients storage. The Ferris article starts; ‘Exchange 2010′s database strategy is very interesting. The new … Continue reading

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