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+date: "2001-02-06T18:31:00Z"
+title: SNOW-MAN IS THE MAN!
+---
+
+Uh... Okay, long story short, Pablotron has a new home, @Home is a
+steaming load, and <a href="http://www.snowman.net/">Snow-Man</a> is
+my new best friend.  He's now hosting both Pablotron and Pablotron
+DNS.  I'm so grateful I even put his logo below my sidebar ;-). 
+It might take a few more days for the DNS changes to propagate
+everywhere, but pablotron.com appears to work correctly for most
+people.
+<br /><br />
+
+As for the site, most things should still work correctly.  The tetrinet
+rankings will be broken for a bit while i rewrite the CGI, but I'm not
+going to rush that. AFAIK, noone even plays tetrinet anymore :).  Also,
+the uptimes and stats aren't going to update for a while until I
+rewrite the scripts.
+<br /><br />
+
+The new version of <a href="/projects/gibmeet/">GibMeet</a> includes
+plugin support.  A few reference plugins are included with the
+newest tarball, and you can grab the ones made by 
+<a href="http://www.richlowe.net/">Richlowe</a> and 
+<a href="http://koudelka.nerdland.org/">koudelka</a>
+right <a href="/projects/gibmeet/plugins/">here</a>.  You'll need 
+<a href="/projects/plib/">PLib</a> version 0.1.2 or better ain order
+for GibMeet to compile.  Speaking of PLib, a few people have reported
+problems compiling PLib; specifically, undefined references to db.
+I'm not actually using the db wrapper at the moment, and I'll probably
+disable it in the next version of PLib (pending a rewrite).  For now,
+do the following to disable the db stuff:
+
+<br /><ul>
+<li>remove pdb.o from the line beginning with OBJS= in plib/plib/Makefile
+<li>remove the text "-ldb" from plib-config.c
+</ul>
+
+Before anyone emails me about it, yes i know autoconf could take care of
+this madness for me.  I'll get around to it :).
+<br /><br />
+
+As for development stuff.  The CVS version of PLib has a new dynamic 
+resource loading API.  In it's simplest form, you simply do a 
+<i>data = p_resource_get("urltype://url_parameters", &len)</i> and
+PLib will find the correct dynamic library, load it, and pass your
+URL off to it.  Note that the URL isn't limited to things like http
+and ftp.  I plan on adding support for things like SQL and XML, so
+you could do somethign like
+<i>PList *list = p_resource_get("mysql://pabs@s3kr3tp4ss:db.pablotron.org:\"select 1-5 from News where (Title like '%snow-man%');\"", &len);</i>
+or whatever .  Anwyay, this is still a ways off; right now I'm working
+on the ftp, http, and shttp modules (all of which will probably be
+implemented with <A href="http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/">libcurl</a>
+(the only sane http library I've found -- thanks
+<a href="http://www.darkrock.co.uk/">[Bb]o[wr]is.*</a> ;-) ).
+<br /><br />
+
+Oh yeah, <a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/">Tom Gilbert</a> renamed
+<A href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/gom/">Gom</a> to
+<a href="http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/gozer/">Gozer</a> due to a name
+conflict (I need to do the same soon with PLib. :-( ).  For those of
+you using <a href="/projects/rollober/">Rollover</a>, you'll either
+need to upgrade to CVS, or edit the rollover.pl script manually (just
+chnage all occurances of gom to gozer and you should be okay).
+<br /><br />
+
+Okay, that's all for now.  Thanks again to
+<a href="http://www.snowman.net/">Snow-Man</a> for helping me out.
+If you have the time, don't forget to drop into #e (on 
+<a href="http://openprojects.nu/">OPN IRC</a>) and wish 
+<a href="http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2596/">Schmoo</a> a
+happy birthday.
+