Latest GAIM and Oscar
Well... it seems as though AOL is doing some kind of blocking once again. So I got the latest GAIM 0.11.0pre12 and built it. No dice. The word from the GAIM folks is that only the CVS repository is going to be working. I guess as long as AOL can keep changing things the GAIM folks want to keep the changes in CVS and not generate a ton of releases. Too bad... it'd be nice if they could simply encapsulate the required code into a network resource. Come to think of it... they do. There's a PHP-based server that's dishing out the MD5 checksums but still they need to have code changes. Oh well... I'll stick with the releases because I'm a little conservative.
It's interesting to think of it... AOL is giving away their code. If I were using their code, I'd be OK and ready to go. But that I'm using someone else's means they want to shut me out. Very interesting... AOL will have to give in eventually. There's too much for them to loose.
Interesting thing happened this evening. I was down here catching up on some reading and I noticed that I had two cryptoquip solvers running full-tilt on the processors with very simplistic quips. I think it's clear that someone is running a quip but they aren't aware of the search space issues and so they're getting lots of possibilities. Interesting that someone is running this, too bad that they're not running it well so as to get a good feeling about the results.
I've added something to the page to say "try hard examples" to keep people from putting in bad data and getting too much results. We'll see how it goes.