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Recently I set up PvPGN server to host StarCraft games and had to solve some lag problems when people behind NAT tried to play the game. In this post I try to summarize my experience and hope it can be useful for others, as there’s not that much info available on this topic, it seems.

New, Drupal-based site is up and running (so far in test mode, though). First thing to migrate will be blog. Projects and similar pages will follow shortly, the last one will be photo albums page. Please post any problems found.

Update, 21.09.2008: it took quite longer than initially expected, but I’ve just finished initial photo albums migration, thus completing all old site parts transition.

Some notes on transforming WiFi access point DLink DWL-G700AP to router using Wive firmware.

WolCub - это виртуальный драйвер принтера для печати в графический WOL формат, который используют электронные книги lBook. Основными особенностями данного драйвера является поддержка Windows Vista, разбиение страниц для альбомного просмотра и поддержка anti-aliasing.

This patch for aspell 0.60.5 makes it possible to compile it natively on Win32. Tested configuration is Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Win32/x64 targets, but as cmake is used for building, it should handle all other Win32 compilers more or less gracefully also.

This article discusses issues arisen during implementation of XEP-0136 specification, which describes the protocol for server-side instant messaging history, and XEP-59, which basically provides the way to page through results set and limit results number.

Basically, it’s the copy of letter sent to XMPP discussion mailing list, I’ve put it here to make sure more people have access to it and can provide their feedback / comments.

For most of the issues listed some solutions are proposed.

This article is about mod_archive_odbc: ejabberd implementation of server-side instant messaging history support, also known as XEP-136.

Update: development of this module has stopped, all further development is done in mod_archive2 project.

This article introduces libwsw - C++ library for Jabber clients which provides XEP-136 support, AKA server-side message archiving, and wswutil - the tool for import / export operations on user history for XEP-136 compliant servers.

Simple patch for Psi 0.11-0.13 which adds support for multiple languages in its spell-checking engine.

Я недавно организовал сдачу отчетности в налоговую в электронном виде - теперь хочу поделиться своими наблюдениями по этому поводу и описанием решений возникших проблем.

Статья ориентирована в основном на ИТшников-СПДшников, но может быть полезна и остальным, если опустить технические детали.

Update от 2009.01.04: бОльшая часть статьи в связи со сворачиванием приема отчетности, подписанной ключами Нотар, уже неактуальна, детали см. ниже.