I successfully connected to Google Talk with a patched version of Bitlbee 0.92 today. You can download my RPM (for Redhat 9) here:

• http://www.uberh4×0r.org/~hoyhoy/rpms/redhat9/bitlbee-0.92-googletalk.i386.rpm

I just called mitya000 with Google Talk. It adjusted the volume automagically, had unbelievable clarity, and worked ridiculously well. Absolutely amazing.

I like the Google Desktop Search sidebar a whole lot. I just wish it could index network drives on XP SP2. Pretty much every necessary file that I have at home is on a Linux box, and I can’t index any of these files with Google’s Desktop Search from a mapped network drive. It doesn’t specifically say that I can’t do it, but when I add the network drive, GDS flags an error right away on my Windows XP SP2 machine. My laptop running Windows XP SP1 seems to be crawling a network drive now. Weird. I guess this is “beta” software.

Hmmmm, I tried to force IE to use Google as the default search engine this morning by importing google.reg into muh registry. IE kept trying to save the file as a binary. I used wget to retrieve the file, imported the file into the registry, and it worked just fine. Is IE not playing nice with teh Google?

Hmmmm, now Yahoo! has released a desktop search tool to compete with Google’s desktop search tool. Red Hat Linux has had the “locate” tool for some time now, and it works well enough. I guess it could be made easier, but I don’t understand what the big deal is here. Convergence between intraweb and local machine search? I guess anything is better than that silly searchin’ cat that Microvole shipped with XP. Imma keep using locate and find, you kids go on now with your desktop search agents and search kitties.

I just did a search on google tonight for some mp3s by searching apache indexes like this: “parent directory index of last modified your_artist_here mp3″. You’d be surprised how many indexes come up that are still fully functioning.