Which remote logging will be more useful?

I have difficult choice. What kind of remote logging should be implemented first.

At present moment we have:

• File-based remote logging (ftp, sftp, dav, ...)
  
• Database remote logging (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, ...)
  
• XMPP remote logging or Google Talk based remote logging.
  

The last choice was preferable for me early, but after discussion with my mentor Richard Laager, this variant is not seems so good as before because:

• We don't know how exactly GTalk implements XEP-0136.
  
• It may be incompatible with other XMPP servers later.
  
• I don't know other XMPP servers which implement XEP-0136.
  

So, as Richard said that "database logging is still a really common request" I think this way is really good decision.

QIP logger new features

New features were added to previously presented QIP logger. So now they are:

• Purple compatible logs.
  
• Diving logs into collection of messages corresponding to one chat session.
  
• Perfect work with russian symbols.
  

I hope QIP logger will be merged with main Piding branch in few days.

New photos from Moscow

This is original Marshall Kirk McKusick email:

The original high resolution pictures are available at:

http://www.mckusick.com/~mckusick/Moscow_2007

Because of comments that it is too painful to upload the
full-resolution pictures on our 768 uplink, I have put up
a lower resolution version at:

http://www.mckusick.com/~mckusick/Moscow_2007_Low

QIP logger

Do you know QIP messenger? No. It's okay, because QIP is not to good as Pidgin :)

But it is rather popular ICQ client (especially in Russia) :(

I've just implemented QIP Logger for Pidgin. So now you have opportunity to look through QIP logs from Pidgin.

Last exam's results

Yeah! We did it! We've passed our last exam! Me and my group-mates have only excellent marks. But it doesn't mean that I can relax, because I have to do many things and I have a lot of work.

Modern problems of mathematics and computer science

Today I've passed my last exams "Modern problems of mathematics and computer science". To tell you truth it was more resistance of materials and mathematical physics, so it was really boring and uninteresting. Unfortunately we will know the results only tomorrow. So it will be nervous day and night.

Moscow vacation photos

Yesterday I published most interesting photos from my Moscow vacation. They are available from Picasa Album

Also you can hear Kirk McKusick's speech with russian translation [download]. The record is not to good, because it was made by PDA.

Marshall Kirk McKusick and Eric Allman in Moscow

I've just came back from Moscow (I live in Rostov-on-Don, Russia).

In capital of Russia were invited many famouse people such as Brain Behlendorf, Louise Suarez-Potts, Robert Warrall and Eric Allman, because Interop 2007 took place in that days.

Eric Allman arrived with Marshall Kirk McKusick.

Me and my friend had great opportunity to spend approximately two days with these legends of Open Source (I mean Eric and Kirk). We visited Red Square and Tretyakovskaya Gallery. Also Kirk read lecture "Twenty years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T owned to freely redistributable" for all *nix lovers , and it was really interesting, cos we heard a lot of amazing details.

Lately I am going to publish some of the best photos.