Samsung NC10-14GW … so far pretty nice. What did Jon say.. a media consumer and not a media creator.. well.. I’m blogging from it 
I went on an uninstalling rampage like I always do.. well.. don’t uninstall the Easy Display manager.. you need that or you FN keys don’t work
Everyone I work for/with likes their mobile phones so I decided to check out Funambol again. Also there’s been renewed interest in doing stuff without Exchange servers, so.. here we go again.
Since I have a Blackberry now, I figured that it would be more supported and more used. Funambol is also on version 7 and the last time I checked this stuff out was in version 3.5… that’s also when I got an "Opensource Rocks" or something like that T-Shirt from them… oh ya.. I’m big time
So I got PIM sync’ing for the Blackberry and for Thunderbird and for Outlook. Long story short, what works is if I send contacts to the Funambol server with the Blackberry and then grab those contacts with Outlook and Thunderbird.
If nothing else, this is pretty cool to get contacts from the Blackberry to Thunderbird.. no need to have Outlook in the middle there anymore. However, since the Blackberry syncs over the cable connection better, and then only with Outlook, it makes this a hard sell to the non-geek community… but, for the most part, this would work.. and that’s pretty nice.
What didn’t work is when I changed anything in Outlook or Thunderbird and told the Blackberry to sync up again.. the Blackberry sync client would error out and that was the end of that.
I didn’t try the Funambol email push client. BIS works as well as I think it should without needing another app. Funambol’s email client might work better (and then again might not), but I don’t see much of a reason to switch it. I WOULD just try it, but I can’t "just do it"… you need to convert some kinda java thing A to java thing B .. or something.. anyway.. I don’t want to mess with that to try something I don’t really want to try.
Anyway.. that’s round 1 of testing.. I’ve deleted the app off the Blackberry many times now, but I put it back on again to get all my contacts from Outlook to Thunderbird.. and that’s really the only thing I’m gonna do with that for right now… local BB to Outlook sync with a cable, push that to Funambol and then pull it down with Thunderbird.
… the rest… maybe more later… but really this has to work flawlessly before I bring it before the bosses.
I have quite a few email addresses at different hosts.. I’m a firm believer in all my email in one place. So, of course, I’ve been forwarding email. I’ve stopped that now after reading this article.
All my mail is filtered in to a google for domains (initiated.com) account. Then I pull that mail down to my local server. If my local server goes down, then I still have google, which doesn’t go down.. ever.
And actually I’m thinking about not archiving my stuff locally.. but I think I’d still want room to play again at some point.. even though I’m in “solid solution” mode now.
Anyway.. now.. instead of forwarding.. I take advantage of google’s ability to grab your email from other places via their pop3 service. All 3 of my other addresses have pop3 ability (mostly because I’m in charge of that :)) and then I resuck that email (via pop3s) from google to me. So I “fetchmail” via google and then actually really fetchmail… I could skip the middle man and fetchmail directly, but google’s spam filter is totally awesome… and I haven’t taken it head to head with spamassassin yet.. only using it sentimentally.. so.. yar.. that’s what I got yo.
I’ve also implemented SPF for work(s)… I gotta see how I can do that for home too… maybe… if I care after today
So I used multipass DivX encoding with DVDx … I had the first pass set to multi 1st pass 2000kbps bitrate and then the 2nd pass set to multi 2nd pass 2000kbps… the resulting file size was about 2gig for the movie I was ripping, but it wouldn’t play in windows media player nor in the DivX player… said it wasn’t valid… so.. that sucks. I tried this twice and no go.
So I did the 2 pass thing again, but this time with 780 kbps bit rate which is the default… I’ll see if that does it… if not I’ll try quality 1 pass at 2000 bitrate
According to http://wordpress.org/support/topic/156401 wp has aging on RSS pulls that don’t pull until a certain time limit is reached and then they check it. Default is 1 hour. That should really be an option.
So in Wordpress 2.5 I changed wp-includes/rss.php on line 595 to have 300 in there (5*60) for 5 minutes.
I wrote this today: http://www.tempstop.net/smart_import.php.txt
I’ll allow you to import a list of users into SMART’s training website under a given manager username/password. Pretty basic stuff, but they don’t have an import.. so I wrote one… that’s the basic code.. what I actually use a tempstop is built in to the import employee function.
I submitted this bug to TinyMCE
.. but I thought I’d repost it just to be sure the word got out…
Description of problem: Windows Media will not play on the latest version of TinyMCE found here in IE, however it works in FireFox
Steps to reproduce:
1. in IE7, go to that webpage
2. click on Embed Media
3. change the type to Windows Media
4. select sample.avi under the Media folder
5. click ok and Submit
the generated code contains the line:
<param name=”src” value=”tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/imagemanager/files/media/sample.avi” />
this is the incorrect parameter for the CSID
6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6 .. the parameter is URL not SRC.. so
<param name=”url” value=”tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/imagemanager/files/media/sample.avi” />
works
the fix….. in editor_plugin.jschange
if(n==’src’&&p[n].indexOf(’://’)!=-1&&mt==’application/x-mplayer2′)
to
if(n==’src’&&mt==’application/x-mplayer2′)
this will always insert the URL parameter for Windows Media
# Copyright (C) 1998-2006 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
# USA.
"""Cleanse certain headers from all messages."""
from email.Utils import formataddr, parseaddr
from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
from Mailman.Handlers.CookHeaders import uheader
def process(mlist, msg, msgdata):
# Always remove this header from any outgoing messages. Be sure to do
# this after the information on the header is actually used, but before a
# permanent record of the header is saved.
del msg['approved']
# Remove this one too.
del msg['approve']
# Also remove this header since it can contain a password
del msg['urgent']
# We remove other headers from anonymous lists
if mlist.anonymous_list:
syslog('post', 'post to %s from %s anonymized',
mlist.internal_name(), msg.get('from'))
realname, email = parseaddr(msg['from'])
del msg['from']
del msg['reply-to']
del msg['sender']
# Hotmail sets this one
del msg['x-originating-email']
msg['From'] = formataddr((realname, mlist.GetListEmail()))
msg['Reply-To'] = mlist.GetListEmail()
# Some headers can be used to fish for membership
del msg['return-receipt-to']
del msg['disposition-notification-to']
del msg['x-confirm-reading-to']
# Pegasus mail uses this one... sigh
del msg['x-pmrqc']
yesterday was pretty slow around work so I spent the whole day playing with this old blackjack of Ann’s and making it work on tmobile.
first I called cingular and got the unlock code (I did this a few days ago actually) and walked through those instructions .. so that unlocked the phone
then I found that it had an upgrade to WM6.. so that’s awesome.
Then I had to get Internet set up.. after much confusion, the right link is here: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=576307
The key.. for the $5.99 plan you only want 1 connection to GPRS.. goes to The Internet and uses the APN wap.voicestream.com . Then the proxy connects from The Internet to the WAP Network and uses 216.155.165.50:8080 and the type is HTTP (not WAP). Internet explorer settings are uncheck automatically detect settings and you are connecting to a WAP Network.. that way, see, it uses the proxy… if you have a WAP Network connection it’ll use THAT and bypass the proxy, which won’t load pages.
then MMS settings:
Profile Name: PictureMessaging
MMSC URL: http://216.155.174.84/servlets/mms
Proxy: Checked
Address: 216.155.165.50
Port: Works using either 8080 or 9201 for me. 8080 is from the T-Mobile web page
So that’s that… it works. I might commandeer one for myself
I thought I’d start signing up on some of these sites and check it out. I might find a couple side things I could work on. So I made an elance account (username is nmossie). My profile is here: