02 Mar
Posted by Harper in Technology at 02:54 AM
Tags: chat, ejabberd, jabber, jabber server, jabber.olpchacks.org, olpc, olpc-chicago, xmpp
Today I spent a minute setting up a Ejabberd Server for the OLPC Chicago group. This will allow all of us OLPC XO hackers to be on the same “mesh.” To get started using the jabber server with your XO follow these simple steps:
Boot the XO
Get connected to the internet
Open a terminal (activity or ctrl-alt-f1)
in [...]
20 Feb
Posted by Harper in General, Technology at 11:58 PM
Tags: 37signals, bot, campfire, campfirenow, chat, exploit, flood, hacks, perl
Oh yea. I forgot to mention that i released a new version of my campfirenow.com bot framework. It is quite a bit better and a lot more robust - however i imagine that 37signals has changed things to stop it.
Check out the source: here
I also released a proof of concept flood. its real annoying and [...]
09 Feb
Posted by Harper in General at 10:54 PM
Tags: 2.0, 37signals, awesome, bot, campfire, chat, hacking, harper, irc, web
So i was playing around with campfire and i noticed that i could easy write a bot for it. so i did. it sucks. but it shows what you could do. how i love www mechanize. and perl. check it out:
http://nata2.info/?path=code%2Fcampfire_bot_hack
Oh yea. campfire is sweet. the 37signals guys did a great job. although i am [...]
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