Category: Utilities

Various Alax.Info Utilities

Jabber/XMPP Tools roadmap: Jabber RPC

Here is what is going to keep me busy with Jabber/XMPP Tools. Since the library should be a lightweight module integratable into non-IM software (this is the main goal with it currently), no full XMPP functionality is expected, only reasonable features for non-IM software, especially server side. The first goal is to be able to…

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Jabber/XMPP Tools 1.0.1

General Information About Jabber/XMPP Tools Update As planned recently, Jabber/XMPP Tools library was updated to support TLS secure connections, among other reasons required by Google Talk. The library contains interoperable connection COM objects for TCP and TLS on top of TCP network connections. Additionally, new properties added to Authentication and Message objects to support authentication…

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Jabber/XMPP Tools: TLS and more

Jabber/XMPP Tools already implement TLS 1.0 secure connections and will be available shortly. TLS is implemented using SChannel API, the ATL helper classes I made for SChannel might also appear here to public. Jabber/XMPP Tools also contain some reusable components such as COM objects for TCP connection, for TLS over TCP connection which implements the…

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Jabber/XMPP Tools

Summary Alax.Info Jabber/XMPP Tools is a beginning of a Jabber/XMPP compatible set of automation objects (COM/OLE). The module is started as a simplest Jabber client to be used to send message into Jabber/XMPP network. Initially the module provides three objects: Connection, a TCP socket connection pump conectable to remote Jabber/XMPP server; Authentication, an object which…

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Search engines

Quite amusing, this blog shares first two positions with elsdoerfer.info on query for “soft link ntfs” and is 4th on MSN search, 3rd is elsdoerfer.info again. Yahoo search lists elsdoerfer.info but this blog is somewhere far away. This is probably because “soft links” are better known as “symbolic links”. The mentioned elsdoerfer.info is a very…

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NTFS Links Update

Multilanguage support added and Russian translation is also put into this update. No features added. Russian locale is detected automatically but you can also overrdide through registry: Key Name: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alax.Info\NTFS Links\Locale Value Name: Default Value Type: DWORD Value: 1049 (decimal) for Russian Translation is implemented as a satellite DLL, so more languages are possible if…

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