From: Bjoern V. <bj...@cs...> - 2006-04-25 22:16:30
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Ethan Blanton wrote: > Let's back up the horsie a bit ... where were the "many false or > improper answers" ? I think you're making things up again, and quite > frankly I'm getting tired of it. Ok, ok. Let's write down a master solution. I do not review every single = answer here and give points etc. :-) I counted four people which solved=20 the survey. One of them did not wrote his message on this list. Thanks=20 for all which filled out this survey. Look, the survey contained 6 strings and one SVN comment. How long you=20 needed for the survey (incl. discussion, Google searching, source code=20 viewing etc.)? I needed around 30 min for collecting the ansers. Gaim has corrently 2578 i18n strings! The majority of them are not so=20 difficult. But please don't make the translation task too hard. Master solution: > 1) What means "you can see the butterflies mating" in=20 > src/gtkaccount.c:1297? Best answer: Richard wrote: "It's in a callback function that's registered as a pop-up handler for the port entry field in proxy options. Right-click on that field and you'll see the string. I'd assume easter egg. (NOTE: I had never seen this code before I looked at it just now.)" Unfortunately I was not able to test it. Right-clicking on the port entry field shows a popup menu. But this popup menu only contains GTK+ things (cut, copy, paste, Input methods etc.), nothing about butterflies. May be it's "dead code" :-( > 2) Why is Syd Logan a "lazy bum" in AUTHORS and in src/gtkdialogs.c:100= ? Best Answer: Rob Flynn introduced the "lazy bum" comment on Syd Logan in the AUTHORS file at 03/17/2001. He didn't wrote an useful CVS comment for this change. So it's unclear, why he wrote it. Shalom thinks "Because he stopped working on Gaim :-)". Luke thinks "Oh, and then he went to AOL to work on winaim. He deserves some grief for that :-P " Probably only Rob knows the right answer. > 3) What is a "TOC host" in src/protocols/toc/toc.c? Best Answer: Ambrose Li said: "A TOC server. TOC is an AIM protocol. A host is a computer. Literally a computer talking the TOC protocol, but the context requires it to be a server, and in the DOS/Windows world (since this is AIM) the word "host" traditionally only refers to servers." > 4) What does "SSL Handshake Failed" in src/protocols/irc/irc.c:432 and = > src/protocols/jabber/jabber.c:451 mean? Best Answer: Richard wrote: "The process of negotiating an SSL connection failed."= Read this long SSL handshake description from Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q257591/ (Netscape made the SSL protocol and more detailed information can be found there.) > 5) What is a "Channel HMAC" in src/protocols/silc/chat.c? Best Answer: Ambrose Li wrote: "Short answer (looking at my po file): Some kind of= user authentication token for the channel" Richard wrote: "... Looking at the source, it's immediately clear (gi= ven Channel Topic is right there) that this is talking about a "channel" as in "chat"."= I personally think that the channel HMAC is a unique id for a chat ch= annel. It's possible to calculate such an unique id with the HMAC-MD5 or = HZMAC-SHA1 digest algorithms. But to be honest, I don't know, who has the right answer. Help yourse= lf: =20 * http://silcnet.org/docs/toolkit/silchmac.html * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC > 6) What does ""You feel a disturbance in the force..." in=20 > plugins/psychic.c means? Best Answer: It has two meanings. First meaning: Richard wrote: "Feels like a Star Wars quote to me and Google confirms that." Second meaning: I wrote: "If a buddy begins to type a message to you a conversation window appears (with this message)" > 7) Why Ethan calls the psychic plugin a stalker plugin? > > "If we're going to support crappy stalker-enablement plugins, we=20 > should at least make an effort to ensure that they don't require C99." > > (from svn log plugins/psychic.c) Best Answer: Luke wrote: "The psychic mode plugin detects that someone is _about_ to send you a message. more technically, it catches the typing notification being sent as they type the first message, before you have (short of the plugin) seen anything to indicate their attention. It isn't quitethe same as the stalker behaviors above." Greetings, Bj=F6rn |