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Miranda is a well-known and open source instant messenger. It includes support for Jabber, which basically uses the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). The XML-based protocol allows servers to request certain information from clients.

Sometimes, it is advisable to disallow software to automatically and quietly communicate and reveal certain information to others.

One of those questionable requests is used to gather information about the client software name, version and operating system (e.g. what would be called User-Agent in HTTP).

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How to make a wild pig roast

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My web site statistics show that

• 17% of my visitors are looking for Lemmings for iPhone, which unfortunately does not exist. If i'd know how to develop for the iPhone, i'd be rich by now by selling the game here.


• 10% use a Mac, 6% Linux, 10% Safari, 48% Firefox, 25% MSIE, 2% Opera, 1% iPhone


• 6% are looking for information about how to publish a Spring WebService


• 4% try to find a way to beat the end-level of Defense Grid: The Awakening


• 1% are looking for a XPS2PDF Converter, which, like the iPhone Lemmings, does not exist. Anyone want to join and develop such a converter tool?


• The other search-engine driven visitors usually look for the following tags:
  spring ibatis wsdl eclipse oracle hsqldb batch java heap dump flash squirrel osgi saferpay virtuemart mock tomcat pom.xml obfuscator jmx jboss easymock etc.


• All other visitors use direct links or newsreaders (approx. 200 visits/day, although I think most of them are some kind of automated web crawlers)


• The funniest thing to look for is certainly "messagesucker". It appears 15 times in the logfiles.

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What are Dynamic Applications?

It's the software-way of putting the business people back in charge. Today, changes to enterprise business software takes ages to get into production. Endless analyze-redesign-implement-test-deploy cycles affecting multiple stakeholders: IT, QA, vendors and of course the sponsor.

How would it feel if the first three stakeholders could be removed from the process, once the application has been finalized in its initial state? How about giving the sponsor or business department the ability to adapt and change applications on their own? How about giving them the ability to change complex business logic, fine-tune parameters and model work flow to reflect the reality when and as soon as it changes?

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A railroad wormhole journey made with Blender in 1h modelling and 2hrs rendering on AMD 3500+:


Download MPEG-4 .avi
Includes 4x oversampling for anti-aliasing and motion blur effect, which takes some additional CPU resources.

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