{"id":240,"date":"2007-01-12T03:47:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-01-12T04:04:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T01:04:20","slug":"random-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/random-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Random stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a few changes to the sidebar of my blog, I&#8217;ve added <a href=\"http:\/\/last.fm\">last.fm<\/a> Recent Tracks listing and a Meebome widget. The meebome widget is a very nice flash application that let&#8217;s you chat with visitors of your site while being online on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meebo.com\">meebo<\/a>.  I was introduced to meebo sometime ago by <a href=\"http:\/\/thatha.qlabs.gr\/blog\/\">thatha<\/a>. It is an &#8220;Instant Messaging Portal&#8221;, you create an account and then you can log in to your msn, icq, yahoo, aim, jabber and gtalk account. I use it whenever I am away from my pc, since I find it a lot more &#8220;comfortable&#8221; to log in to the networks I am interested through meebo than through <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/apps\/internet\/gaim_portable\">Portable Gaim<\/a> that I keep on my usb flash drive. <\/p>\n<p>btw&#8230;Gaim is so broken these days&#8230;Looks like noone is interested to fix the aging problems it has. No nat-to-nat transfers, random crashes even on normal filetransfers. Even the developer(s) suggest that you use the beta version to log in to msn. How dumb is this ? What are they waiting for ? Since even the developer promotes the beta in favor to the &#8220;stable&#8221;..shouldn&#8217;t the beta be named as &#8220;stable&#8221; now ? Noone is still using Gaim 1.5.0 &#8230;all the latest gnome based distros use 2.0-betaX&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve steadily become more and more unsupportive of OLPC. There are many reasons to this. First of all I think that it made by western people believing that they know what is better for africans or asians. That&#8217;s plain wrong. In my view the OLPC is something that western rich kids will enjoy far more than poor africans or asians. It&#8217;s a &#8220;western toy&#8221; for &#8220;western rich kids&#8221;. Then comes the &#8220;open-ness&#8221; of the whole project. In the beggining everything looked very promising, then came the closed source drivers and firmwares. I don&#8217;t care for whatever reasons Marvell doesn&#8217;t open source the wifi driver, but if someone touts for a &#8220;complete open source project&#8221;, then  e v e r y t h i n g  must be open source. Not whatever we like. Oh, and then came the added sd card slot in order for the OLPC to be able to run a version of windows. That&#8217;s open source too right ? More bashing of the OLPC on <a href=\"http:\/\/beranger.org\/search.php?search=OLPC&#038;x=0&#038;y=0\">beranger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a few changes to the sidebar of my blog, I&#8217;ve added last.fm Recent Tracks listing and a Meebome widget. The meebome widget is a very nice flash application that let&#8217;s you chat with visitors of your site while being online on meebo. I was introduced to meebo sometime ago by thatha. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":7603,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}