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It seems that we are breeding a drummer. For the last couple of days Maxim is drumming with his legs on everything he can touch. We put him in his cradle, he find the edges and drums. We hold him vertically, he finds the surface and drums. He does it rather strengthfully and for extended periods of time. For example, when I took him for a walk today, he was drumming with his legs for almost three and a half hours! Minus the thirty minutes that he slept.
I guess he is not hurting himself much, because he seems rather happy while doing it. He even smiles occasionally. Maybe he is training his leg muscles for walking times that will hopefully arive soon.
During the last few days I’ve been trying out Sim. Sim is yet another open source Instant Messaging (IM) client that supports a variety of protocols (ICQ, Jabber, AIM, and MSN). I am currently interested only in ICQ though.
Before Sim I’ve been using Licq for a long time and centericq before that.
I switched from centericq to Licq because I wanted to have annoying notifications on new messages while in graphical mode. Otherwise I was constantly forgetting that centericq was running in one my konsoles and it stayed there abandoned for weeks.
Licq is almost perfect for my needs. And I wasn’t looking forward to jumping of off it. It’s just that a few people suggested that Sim is a better client in general, and that is solves a few of those issues that I have with Licq.
They say that your unpatched Microsoft Windows machine will live for only 12 minutes on the net before getting 0wned. Now, a lot of people are saying a lot of different things about Windows security, but I tend to agree to this particular one. I’ve seen it plenty of times at work. In fact, we now have a requirement for all colocated clients to fully patch their servers before connecting to our backbone.
I have finally upgraded to this blog to WordPress 1.5.1.3. A couple of security issues with XML RPC are fixed by this release. I was a bit slow, since the fixes were released for over a week now, but not to worry – my PHP installation already had all the fixes for XML RPC installed.
Slashdot is running a story on the issue. One of the comments shows an easy way of upgrading PEAR that not everyone might be familiar with:
pear clear-cache pear upgrade XML_RPC