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Saturday, February 4 2012

[17:16:36] Psi.generay Finally figured out how to configure SIP on Symbian^3 based phones. Despite registering a SIP profile, the phone wouldn't recognize it as valid. The secret sauce was a SIS that needed to be installed:

http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/d476061e-90ca-42e9-b3ea-1a852f3808ec/SIP_VoIP_Settings.html

Friday, February 3 2012

[08:06:39] Merch My N900 usually cannot go a business day (we'll say 9 hours) on a charge; but I've had the SIM out and it's been on WiFi only for the last 9 hours and barely touched its reserves.
[08:07:25] Merch It's a bit amazing simply how much of a drain UMTS is, even in a city.
[08:08:41] Merch However, given the surprising difference, I wouldn't be surprised if something else was going wrong ither with the mobile towers or N900 itself.

Thursday, February 2 2012

[09:01:14] Merch It is a bit odd that mobile (GSM) phones are smaller than SIP (WiFi) phones.
[21:46:31] AxelFoldy Bombus is a pretty sweet open source j2me xmpp client.
[21:49:05] AxelFoldy It does not seem to support subjects on messages, but does let you route to a specified resource and even supportr remote control.

Wednesday, February 1 2012

[09:32:30] Psi.generay Apparently I was wrong, and the "value plans" are contracted, but priced similarly to the Even More Plus ("EM+") plans. Something that I learned about the EM+ plans is that apparently most people got them while financing a phone from T-Mobile, where the consumer would put down a subsidized price and then pay off the remainder in monthly increments. This is the part that was exploited to the point that T-Mobile needed to cancel the plan.
[09:34:09] Psi.generay The whole thing sounds odd, and it sounds as if T-Mobile were trying to find a way of having a non-contract plan while still tying the consumer to T-Mobile via the monthly payments on the phone. The whole thing sounds more complicated than just having a non-contract plan divorced entirely of the phone provision.
[13:24:20] Trip [T]he magenta color [is a] registered trademark[] of Deutsche Telekom AG

Tuesday, January 31 2012

Cause and Effect: T-Mobile USA and AT&T
[23:55:31] Psi.generay a) AT&T makes a bit for T-Mobile USA
b) T-Mobile hides, and then removes their no-contract monthly plans
c) AT&T's bid falls through after concerns about competition
d) T-Mobile now has monthly non-contract "Value Plans" available on their Web site.

Monday, January 30 2012

Aastra to Asterisk
[15:10:29] Trip After telling myself it couldn't possibly be a codec negotiation issue, prox brought up the possibility as the only thing of which he could think would cause my audio issues on outgoing calls. It turns out he was right, and I should have looked further into it originally:

http://bohmian.org/disc/Aastra_Asterisk_codec_negotiation_issues
Comcast
[21:42:10] Psi.generay PING 66.30.112.1 (66.30.112.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=0 ttl=255 time=7.868 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=6 ttl=255 time=11.037 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=7 ttl=255 time=8.356 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=12 ttl=255 time=33.440 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=13 ttl=255 time=9.724 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=18 ttl=255 time=15.276 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=19 ttl=255 time=6.581 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=20 ttl=255 time=13.213 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=1 ttl=255 time=19025.642 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=2 ttl=255 time=18025.279 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=3 ttl=255 time=17024.912 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=4 ttl=255 time=16024.539 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=5 ttl=255 time=15026.039 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=6 ttl=255 time=14025.675 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=25 ttl=255 time=15.027 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=26 ttl=255 time=8.341 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=8 ttl=255 time=18315.091 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=9 ttl=255 time=17314.820 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=10 ttl=255 time=16314.465 ms
64 bytes from 66.30.112.1: seq=11 ttl=255 time=15314.103 ms

Sunday, January 22 2012

[22:30:18] Psi.generay ... and the Giants recover

Wednesday, January 18 2012

Cool URIs Don't Change
[15:30:38] Trip All of the Google Buzz RSS feeds are black.

Thursday, January 5 2012

Useful for the numerous Internet, but non-Web-enabled, iPhone and Blackberry devices
[19:16:56] Psi.generay "Omni Hotels is the first hotel company to offer both iPhone and Blackberry mobile applications. Our mobile apps on both platforms offer the full functionality of our HTML website"

Sunday, December 25 2011

[10:04:38] Psi.generay I can't quite recall the last time it actually started snowing for Christmas.

Tuesday, December 20 2011

Google Alerts
[09:38:33] Trip Many people may not be aware that I actually use Google for its 'Alerts' feature, which is pretty useful. As Google looks around the Web, if they find something that matches terms you have registered, it will send you an eMail.

I get a lot from various news sources. What I really want is to hit reply and correct them. Maybe that will be in version 2.

Friday, December 2 2011

[10:22:01] Psi.dementia A journalist-turned-iOS-gamificator wrote an entertaining tirade on casual games (specifically the type that are currently dominating the various mobile and "social" platforms).

http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/chapter/2/
Compiz Settings Manager (ccsm) and Priority/Control issue
[22:39:39] Psi.generay We got new development boxes at work, so I set-up a fresh install of Debian testing. It seems like there's a bug in ccsm which prevents a user from adding the control key to any key combination. Instead it reads as "priority" which doesn't do a darn thing, and in fact doesn't get saved as part of the key stroke.

The work around is to edit the compiz config file (which is probably $HOME/.config/compiz/compizconfig/Default.ini) and add "<Control>" to any key combinations directly.

Tuesday, November 29 2011

Buying a Camera: The Two Camps
[11:46:12] Psi.dementia Do you want to buy a digital still camera? Decied to which of two groups you belong. The rest is just budget:

http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2544776&cid=38170088

Sunday, November 20 2011

Murder
[18:59:26] Psi.generay I recently made the first announced release of murder on freshmeat.

http://murder.wronka.org/

More information: http://matt.wronka.org/stuff/projects/murder/

Thursday, November 17 2011

[01:47:14] Merch I've switched to rejecting all external mail from hosts that do not publish SPF records. This is mostly because of the number of forged Yahoo! messages I have been getting as of late, and also because the vast majority of desired mail is already compliant.

Saturday, November 12 2011

[18:19:56] Merch @ Billerica, Town Of, UNITED STATES

Wednesday, November 2 2011

The Economist Renewal Offers
[18:50:14] Psi.generay I received two different eMail offers from the Economist for an early Renewal offer (I have at least one more year on my subscription). One for 80% off, $69 a year; the second for 85% off, or $51 a year.

Ordering magazines is oddly reminiscent of buying trinkets on holiday.