Pidgin plugin for MegaHAL

Some time ago I wrote how to setup MegaHAL to have some talks with “it”.

But, after that, I went one step further and I wrote a Pidgin (multinetwork -Jabber/XMPP, msn, etc.- Instant Messenger client,plugin) so MegaHAL can automatically answer to some people. In other words: you can say “for this Instant Messenger account, when […]

Megahal: how to use it?

Megahal is a conversation simulator, free software, available as a package in Debian systems. This post will talk about how to use and train it. Not difficult, but the first time I was a bit confused.

First of all: install megahal: apt-get install megahal (or aptitude, compile from the source, etc.).

Then you can run […]

Socks server, easy way: ssh

Short article: I love ssh (really, what a nice piece of software, tunnels, reverse tunnels… and sock servers!): ssh -D 1080 user@server Setup your favourite application to use the socks server on localhost, port 1080. ssh will send to “server” the communications, cyphered. And from there to the world. If your favourite application doesn’t have […]

Delay the mails with Postfix

Some days ago I commented in Catalan that I wanted to delay the mails using Postfix. Why? To have a period of time when I could cancel (or “unsend”) some mails. Google has done it in GMail (see Labs option). It can be useful for these moments like “Ops! I sent the mail to the […]