Happy Halloween
I am not into Halloween, but it couldn't hurt to wish you a good one. The neighbors children put a piece of paper with a little bat on it into my moms briefcase. So if my mom want to allow the hordes of children to do play 'Trick or Treat', she'll have to put up this little bat at the door. In the past some stupid children played really bad jokes to people who don't gave treats. The threw old eggs at the house wall for example. So the idea of the little-bat came up.
And now something completely different
Sometimes I do have really stupid ideas, useless or simply stupid. While thinking about instant messenger and features I miss at all of them, I suddenly thought about fuse. Yap, a IM made with fuse, stupid, huh? But could be quite funny to do:
echo "Hi" >/mnt/icq/12345678/msg
or to:
cp myself_reflectionpr0n.jpg /mnt/icq/12345678/
As you may noticed, the 12345678 would be a UIN or a maybe a nick.
But the best feature would be a daemon like IM. Just imagine you configuring X and need to restart you X server more than once. It could be really annoying for people seeing you leaving and reconnecting every minute. It would be just like a IRC bouncer. May be there is already an IM doing this, if somebody know please let me know.
Comments
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For logging and scripting purposes there is no need to have a client run permanently. Just send single XMMP messages (like the DokuWiki forum does). There are plenty of libraries and command line tools which can do this.
Also, not quite the same but AFAIK GAIM can be remote controlled through a named pipe.
2007/10/31 14:58
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May be I should give it a try, just for fun. I once stumble upon Gloox a Jabber library. I tried to include Jabber into Licq, but it's horrible designed! Gloox is perfect, nice and clean C++ code and easy to use.
2007/10/31 16:20
You know, I actually like the idea with the fuse-IM… imagine using this for logging stuff to your jabber account, could be useful in a way or another