How To Connect To OpenFire XMPP Server From Gaim / Pidgin

November 13th, 2007 Openfire (Jabber/XMPP server) by default binds on port 8080 which is also used by Tomcat. This causes Tomcat to fail when openfire is started before it.

August 17th, 2007 I faced quite some problems in configuring Pidgin / Gaim with Google Talk on Fedora Core 6. Here are the detailed steps for a no-brainer configuration of Pidgin for Google Talk: 1.

November 5th, 2007 Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.

April 13th, 2008 Yahoo Instant Messenger is notorious for sending unsolicited commercial instant messages and from questionable sources. The yahoo instant messenger client doesn't provide an way, last I checked, to stop such spams.

October 22nd, 2007 Openfire is a cross-platform java based free Instant Messaging server which implements the XAMPP (Jabber) protocol with extensions. It is very well suited as corporate instant messaging solution.

August 27th, 2008 Many like to twitter using IM (Instant Messenger) because it is very simple and fast to tweet and simple to get continuous updates on your topics of interest. In the good old days Twitter used to provide IM support.

August 17th, 2008 Smack is an excellent Java XMPP Library. While creating a pubsub broker in XMPP I faced a strange issue where few messages were missing.

November 12th, 2007 I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female's webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam).

February 10th, 2007 CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.

January 17th, 2009 Do you want to recover the MySQL root password. its by no means, easy.

December 21st, 2007 SSH is aptly termed as poor man's VPN. You can use it to either forward local host host name and port to a remote server running ssh daemon.

April 22nd, 2007 BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However I found that you can setup much easier and without using their custom software.

June 2nd, 2006 As I mentioned previously my Apache server was inexplicably hanging every morning (PST). And in panic I had to restart my VPS, whenever I could find it.

September 14th, 2009 You may find several instructions to autostart synergyc during login and after login. I had a hard time using them.

October 20th, 2007 Modern DSL modems by default allows you to establish a DSL link through them to provide internet connectivity. The actual connection is handled by software running on your computer.