Недавно на WordPress.com появилась возможность подписываться на новые посты не только при помощи RSS. Самый интересный, при помощи Jabber-бота, способ я и решил рассказать. Это будет вольный пересказ этого поста.

Для того, чтобы получать уведомления от Jabber-бота при появлении новых постов/комментариев, нужно добавить бота в ростер и запомнить несколько простых команд.

После подписки, уведомления о новых постах/комментариях будут приходить автоматически от бота.

На WordPress.com теперь есть свой Jabber-сервер. Настройки для его использования:

Jabber ID: логин@im.wordpress.com
Пароль: Ваш пароль
Jabber Server/Host: im.wordpress.com (обычно это вводить не требуется, сервер определяется на основе JID)
Порт:  5222

Я не уверен, но возможно, что получится работать с ботом и со своего аккаунта. Мне удобнее использовать отдельный аккаунт, чтобы не засорялся контакт-лист.

Теперь добавляем бота в ростер. Его JID – bot@im.wordpress.com. Поздороваемся с ним,  напишем hi.

Команды для работы с ботом:

1. Подписка на блог:
sub example.wordpress.com (обратите внимание, что http://  не вводится).

2. Подписка на новые комментарии к блогу:
sub example.wordpress.com/comments

3. Подписка на новые комментарии к одному посту:
sub example.wordpress.com/год/месяц/день/название_темы

4.  Удаление подписки на блог:
unsub example.wordpress.com

Аналогично – на комментарии/комментарии к посту.

5. Вывод сообщения со списком блогов, на которые подписан:
subs

Para conectarse a la red Jabber a través de la cuenta de Gmail:

server: talk.google.com
port: 5222
user: ‘usuario’@gmail.com
password: ‘contraseña_gmail’

You know how some things just feel doomed from the start? Relationships that never blossom, friendships that never bloom, freelance leads that never – well, lead anywhere really? My first interview today felt very much like that.

I’m writing this from an internet cafe in Oxford – having three hours to kill between today’s two 2nd interviews seemed an adequate opportunity to write one of my now few and far between posts. My readership has dropped off to virtually nothing thanks to my absence of late, and I’m feeling pretty pent up with weeks’ worth of words fighting to get out of my frustrated fingertips… So for those of you still loitering – you wonderful sticky sticklers you – I thought I’d write an account of my day.

My first interview today was for a company I’ve interviewed with before. (As in, before this job – what with this being a 2nd interview I guess you knew already that I’d interviewed with them before now!) The first time I interviewed with them it was all a bit of a shambles. I showed up, only to be told that the guy who I’d been directed to ask for wasn’t on site. In fact, they had clean forgotten I was coming at all, but another likely lad was drafted to stand in for him. I handed over my written test, answered his questions, stumbled over one or two but righted myself after some gentle nudges, and left having asked him to let me know as soon as possible the outcome as I had another offer on the table. After a week of prodding he finally answered one of my emails with an email he MEANT to send to his boss. It let me know in no uncertain terms that I wasn’t getting the job – which was fine, though I’d rather have been told in a more formal manner…

The second time I came into contact with this company they invited me to interview for a role I hadn’t applied for. A role that was nowhere near where I lived. I asked if it might be possible to relocate the role to the Oxford offices and was told no. I pondered going for interview just in case I fell madly in love with the role and the office atmosphere, and was told that I should not attend the interview unless I was entirely certain I would take the job if offered. I turned that offer down.

The role for which I interviewed today is for a sector I know very little about. When my contact at the agency suggested I apply, I was concerned that my understanding of the content would be worse than lacking. She assured me I could pick up the knowledge I needed on the job, and that the fact that I know nothing about construction really didn’t matter. Organising the interview, however proved something of a challenge, as they wanted to see me at less than 24 hours notice and I couldn’t leave Waterstones in the lurch. After some to-ing anf fro-ing we fixed this little issue and a date was scheduled.

At my first interview I did ok, answered the questions sufficiently, but didn’t shine like I know I can. I wasn’t expecting good news, so imagine my surprise when I got a callback! For tomorrow.

Circumstances conspiring as they do, I couldn’t make tomorrow’s interview. I had begun to feel that fate/God/my subconscious/whatever you believe rules our sorry little lives was determined to keep me from working for this company. But a quick phone call enabled me to attend interview today instead (which actually saved me on another day’s train fare!) and I began to wonder that whatever obstacle fate/God/my subconscious/WYBROSLL put up, some other force knocked down… so I did my research, dragged myself out of my warm bed and into my cold interview suit at 6am this morning and left for the station.

This is where fate/God/etc… really began to kick off. Clearly disgusted that none of his/her previous attempts at sabotage had taken, he decided that gale-force winds would be the best weather in which a brisk walk would be appropriate. My hair and skirt flew all over the place as I attempted to make my way down the hill without flashing. Seeing my determined step, he/she decided to take another tack and, presumably choosing to flaunt one of my known weaknesses, decided a wardrobe malfunction was in order.

And so my garter took that exact moment to snap. And not in the good way.

(By garter, incidentally, I mean the built-in ring of rubbery elastic that holds a hold-up up. The modern-day garter of (my) choice!)

Picture me, if you will, clutching at my beret with one hand, holding my skirt down with the other – and now, combining holding my skirt down with holding my stocking up. I must have been a hilarious sight for passers-by!

I made it to the station on time, got my train, and was lucky enough to be well on my way to the offices 35 mins before the interview start time, which gave me sufficient time to stop off at a passing Boots pharmacy and buy some replacement tights. Which, I would have marked up in favour of my interview if not for the fact that the buses which come every 5 mins all day every day chose the next 30 mins NOT to come, forcing me to walk the remaining distance and to arrive, windswept and panting for breath, bang on the minute of my scheduled start time.

And now I’m worried because, while I yet again feel that the interview could have gone better, I am now aware of just how badly I judge these things. And I’m afraid that if I do get this job it’ll trigger the apocalypse or something – since someone up there so clearly wants to steer me well clear of it!

  Итак CoD MW2 пройден, настроение немного улучшилось прошло много времени и многое изменилось. Я понял что моя первая инсталляция Debian была неправильная, зря я ставил на серв графический интерфейс и прочие свистелки.  Так что я выпилил старую систему и поставил заново просто минимальную конфигурацию.
  Сразу после установки сделал 2 обязательные вещи это
 aptitude install ssh
 aptitude install mc
Затем уже через putty с дивана настраивал дальше систему
Собственно установка и настройка openfire:
т.к. openfire это java приложение нас понадобится java для этого прописываем какой либо non free репозиторий, я следующую строчку в sources.list


deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free


затем


aptitude update
aptitude install sun-java6-jre


в процессе установки соглашаемся с лицензионным соглашением.



И еще я решил хранить базу пользователей в mysql поэтому еще 


aptitude mysql-server

И 


mysql> create database jabber;
 
 На этом все приготовления закончены.
Теперь скачиваем openfire с сервера и устанавливаем его
mkdir /downloads
cd /downloads
wget http://download.igniterealtime.org/openfire/openfire_3.6.4_all.deb
dpkg -i openfire_3.6.4_all.deb

Все готово осталось только настроить   
Прописываем   в адресной строке браузер  http://“myserver”:9090 и переходим к настройке сервера.
Собственно сама настройка хорошо описана в статье по которой я ориентировался еще когда запускал openfire под прошлой версией Debian до переустановки, для знающих английский язык ничего особенно удивительного нет, только я как уже говорил хочу хранить данные в базе mysql, поэтому выбираем не embedded database а standart database conection. Далее тип базы mysql, расположение localhost название jabber все необходимые таблицы openfire создаст сам.
   Итак сервер настроен, перезапускаем его (может создаться впечатление что можно зайти не перезапуская но это впечатление ложное, вас просто не пустит на сервер и лично мне когда я так попался в первый раз целых мин 15 казалось что я просто набираю неправильный пароль )

/etc/init.d/openfire restart

И опять заходим http://“myserver”:9090 используя логин admin и указанный при настройке пароль.
Попадаем в web конфигуратор сервера, Осталось завести пользователей и Вуаля готово  
 

Al giorno d’oggi abbiamo mille mila account di posta… di instant messaging e chi più chi meno siamo sui vari LinkedIn e Facebook… un gran casino tenere tutto sott’occhio…

Io tra MSN, ICQ, Skype, MSN, YahooMessenger dovrei tenere aperti 5 programmi… per non parlare della mail personale, quella del blog, LinkedIn e Facebook… ‘na faticaccia no?

Ed ecco che l’altro giorno “scopro” Digsby… mi “controlla” le varie mail e funge da IM multiprotocollo per i vari programmi di IM (eccetto Skype… almeno per ora)…

…poi controlla LinkedIn e facebook e un po’ di altre cose che non necessariamente utilizzo…

Comodissimo per i vari popup di avviso dei messaggi ma anche dei cambi di stato di FB o di nuovo foto inserite dai contatti…

La feature mooooolto comoda è che una volta installato su un PC e creato l’account su Digsby (a cui associare tutti gli altri) se per esempio sono in giro con il portatile ed installo Digsby lì… TAAAAAC automaticamente prende tutte le impostazioni che avevo già impostato sul PC di casa… in questo modo uno non si deve nemmeno più preoccupare di ricordarsi 10k password… ne basta una… uella di Digsby!

Personalmente mi son trovato a disabilitare un po’ di funzioni che risultavano “leggermente” invasive durante l’utilizzo normale: ridotto all’osso i popup e gli avvisi sonori in pratica] ma devo dire che sono rimasto piacevolmente impressionato dal programmino… Bhé provatelo anche voi no?

LINK

• Digsby – Sito Ufficiale

• Disgby – The Community

I came across a challenge recently to limit the Openfire message archive to keep records for a certain period of time. Unfortunately, the default options for the Monitoring plugin (http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/monitoring/readme.html) do not allow for any such customization. So, it was off to the MySQL database for some hands-on trimming. To better automate the process I created a couple of scripts to do the work for me.

ofArchiveRetention.sh

#/bin/bash

#Enter retention period here (in days)
retentionPeriod=90

currentDate="$(date +%s)"
retentionDate=$(($(($currentDate - $(($retentionPeriod * 86400)))) * 1000))

mysql -u root --password=password -e "set @1:=$retentionDate; source ofArchiveRetention.sql;"

ofArchiveRetention.sql

-- Switch database
USE openfire;

-- Delete all conversations
DELETE FROM ofMessageArchive WHERE sentDate <= '@1';

-- Delete conversation participants
DELETE FROM ofConParticipant WHERE joinedDate <= '@1';

-- Delete conversation records
DELETE FROM ofConversation WHERE startDate <= '@1';

-- Leave
-- exit 0

Set this to run once a week in cron:

0 4 * * 0 /root/ofMessageArchive.sh

My reply at bleepingcomputer.com

One member answered my question:
Why would plugging a PC, no matter what OS is installed on it, into a modem/router change it? So no I wouldn’t worry about the Westell.

My reply:

Thanks! That’s just what I needed to know. But, obviously, I am not technically versed. So what is OBVIOUS to you may not be obvious to me.

A professor of Russian language, in the 1970s once said to me “There is no such thing as a foolish question, for IF it is a question in your mind, it is a LEGITIMATE question. There are only foolish answers.” Beginners should be encouraged to ask questions, and not ridiculed, for that is how they learn. And those who are fortunate enough to have expertise and experience should not gloat in their knowledge as if it were wisdom.

I once mentioned to an examining physician something very obscure and little know, about the anastamosis (joining) of a one vein to the left renal vein which is totally different on the right. He was astounded and asked how I could possible know that, not being a physician. I explained that all one has to do is read, and remember a fact, and the only difference between a physician and a plumber, is that plumbers still make house calls, but physicians do not.

Plus, if I had 5 routers, and 3 providers, and money flowing out my kazoo, I would just plug the cable in and see what happens. But, if something DOES go wrong, then since I only have one router and one provider, then I must spend hours on the phone with tech support, or, if that fails, spend days waiting for a technician to show up from Verizon.

Oh, by the way, I found a free beginners manual in PDF, on Ubuntu, which also mentions that IF the Ubuntu machine has an internet card, THEN connecting it to the router should give instantaneous internet access.

http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index_main.html

And, this is a bit off topic, but I spent much of last night experimenting with that Ubuntu chat program EMPATHY. When I initially clicked on Empathy, it launched a wizard asking me first if I wanted a Jabber account, and then asking me if I want to add AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, etc.

I only added Yahoo. Later, I tired to add other things and could not see how to get back into that wizard dialogue. I googled and found other posts suggesting that there was some problem. I UNINSTALLED REMOVED and reinstalled EMPATHY, but still no wizard. THEN I discovered that F4 will bring up a window to ADD other chat programs (which is not intuitively obvious to a beginner). I was pleased to see that my Wubi Ubuntu install is stable enough to remove and reinstall Empathy without crashing things.

I am very curious to explore the limits of the Wubi install on a Windows machine. Tonight I will have that old tower, and do a pure Ubuntu desktop install, and first I will try the wrapper technique with a Belkin Wi-Fi, and later I will experiment with the cable from the Ethernet to the router. I was a bit confused as to whether I should install Ubuntu DESKTOP or Ubuntu Server, but reading up on it made me realize that I am better off with the Desktop, because that gives the most GUI, and then ADD LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PhP) with the synaptic manager, since that is all I really want anyway and I will not use the machine as an actual server to other clients.

SPENT: Goodness knows! £5.70 per day bus fare; £16 train ticket to Oxford; £12 Primark (socks for Toesles); £3.20 toy stuffing; £16 top-up shop; £1.80 buttons (for eyes); £5 charity shop jars/bottles (for Christmas gifts)
BOOKS BOUGHT: 4 on BOGOF thanks to Waterstones’ generous “discovery” staff gift card freebie
INTERVIEWS ATTENDED: 1
INTERVIEW INVITATIONS: 2
HOURS WORKED AT WATERSTONES: roughly 30, but time passes so quickly there it feels like three!
FAIRY SALES: 8 x large, 4 x small = £52
SCHOOLGIRLS WHO ARE “ACTUALLY GOING TO DIE” BECAUSE THEIR IPHONE HASN’T ARRIVED: 1 (I wonder if Apple know they’re responsible  for “actual” teenage deaths…)

Apologies for the absence, the 12 hours out of the house each day are leaving little time to do much in the evening. I get home physically exhausted, cook my dinner, answer my emails and collapse in an exhausted heap. The upshot of this seems to be no blogging – that and a throat and ear infection which is my body’s favourite longstanding way of telling me I’m burning the proverbial candle.

I’ve said before that autumn light has a particular quality to it, a golden sheen. This week I’m discovering that dawn light has its own quality, a sort of cool lilac, waiting to be warmed. Being a night owl I can’t remember the last time I saw dawn… but this past week I’ve been leaving the house in sync with sunrise. And it’s kinda pretty!

In further phone-related news, mine appears to have developed an ironic sense of timing. Twice now it has cut out as I said the words “my phone might cut– ” Amusing, yes – irritating – more so!

FAVOURITE OVERHEARD CONVO OF THE DAY:
WOMAN ON MOBILE PHONE: Yes, yeah, we’re just doing some Christmas shopping. Where are you? Oh, we’re just around the corner – come meet us! You come to us? Okay, okay, we’ll see you in a minute – we’re in Smiths.

Ummmm…. no, you’re really not! Smiths? Our bookselling rivals? Next door but one.