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	<title>The Downward Spiral &#187; computers</title>
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		<title>egroupware, iphone, caldav, carddav, and PHP as cgi</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2011/10/28/egroupware-iphone-caldav-carddav-and-php-as-cgi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[iphone requires some groupdav.htaccess to work with caldav and carddav, but their included one didn&#8217;t work for me because I use PHP as a CGI.. so here&#8217;s my .htaccess file in my public_html folder - also note that you&#8217;ll get an error when setting up card and caldav, that it can&#8217;t authenticate you&#8230; that ok.. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>iphone requires some groupdav.htaccess to work with caldav and carddav, but their included one didn&#8217;t work for me because I use PHP as a CGI.. so here&#8217;s my .htaccess file in my public_html folder</p>
<p>- also note that you&#8217;ll get an error when setting up card and caldav, that it can&#8217;t authenticate you&#8230; that ok.. ignore that error.. and hit save<br />- then in the settings under Mail, Contacts, Calendars -&gt; sync (in the group calendar) set &#8220;All events&#8221;<br />- carddav works right away, even though you get that error</p>
<p>here is my modified .htaccess file</p>
<p># iphone<br />RewriteEngine On<br />RewriteRule ^.well-known/(caldav|carddav)$ /egroupware/groupdav.php/ [R]<br />RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD}&nbsp;&nbsp; ^(PROPFIND|OPTIONS)$</p>
<p>RewriteEngine On<br />RewriteRule ^$ /egroupware/groupdav.php/ [R]</p>
<p># iOS 4.3+ calendar requires that to autodetect accounts<br />RewriteEngine On<br />RewriteRule ^(principals/.*)$ /egroupware/groupdav.php/$1 [R]</p>
<p># must be last!<br />RewriteEngine On<br />RewriteRule .* &#8211; [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]</p>
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		<title>how to dump a call to a ring group in asterisk</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2010/10/12/how-to-dump-a-call-to-a-ring-group-in-asterisk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#8217;s seems like it&#8217;s pretty hard to dump an incoming call that is ringing multiple extensions via a ring group to voicemail in asterisk via a signal from a desktop phone, but I&#8217;ve managed to come up with something pretty close using perl and watching the log files from a sepearate process.. here&#8217;s the code [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s seems like it&#8217;s pretty hard to dump an incoming call that is ringing multiple extensions via a ring group to voicemail in asterisk via a signal from a desktop phone, but I&#8217;ve managed to come up with something pretty close using perl and watching the log files from a sepearate process.. here&#8217;s <a href="http://ds.initiated.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/dump_call_monitor.pl_.txt">the code</a></p>
<p>phone sends sip code 603 (which, IMHO, SHOULD do exactly what I&#8217;m trying to do here anyway) for ignore, daemon picks up on that, and then hangs up all extensions that are ringing</p>
<p>this probably won&#8217;t work very well in high call volumes.. and I bet someone might /dev/null someone on accident.. any suggestions to improve the &#8220;make sure you dump the right extensions&#8221; would be super.. but I think this will do pretty well</p>
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		<title>battlenet mobile authenticator on blackberry tour</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2010/08/03/battlenet-mobile-authenticator-on-blackberry-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tried stuff like this to get the battle net mobile authenticator for blackberry.  I looked up user agent strings for BB 8830 and tried to download this: http://wap.bizmobil.com/content/games/XXX/blizzard_mobile_auth_US_BattleNetAuthenticator_Blackberry_1_0_0.jad and when that didn&#8217;t work I tried the 9000 Bold&#8230; http://wap.bizmobil.com/content/games/XXX/blizzard_mobile_auth_US_BattleNetAuthenticator_Blackberry_8900_9000_1_0_0.jad Ya.. I tried twice.  Undoubtedly I paid $2.00 for no reason&#8230; but I couldn&#8217;t ever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I tried stuff like <a href="http://www.ktuk.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&amp;t=6592">this</a> to get the battle net mobile authenticator for blackberry.  I looked up user agent strings for BB 8830 and tried to download this:</p>
<p>http://wap.bizmobil.com/content/games/XXX/blizzard_mobile_auth_US_BattleNetAuthenticator_Blackberry_1_0_0.jad</p>
<p>and when that didn&#8217;t work I tried the 9000 Bold&#8230;</p>
<p>http://wap.bizmobil.com/content/games/XXX/blizzard_mobile_auth_US_BattleNetAuthenticator_Blackberry_8900_9000_1_0_0.jad</p>
<p>Ya.. I tried twice.  Undoubtedly I paid $2.00 for no reason&#8230; but I couldn&#8217;t ever get it to work no matter which user agent strings I used.  So instead I found a <a href="http://ds.initiated.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/blizzard_mobile_auth_US_BMA_176x220_icon_15x15_1_0_0.jar">Blizzard Mobile Authenticator US jar file.</a> This isn&#8217;t exactly optimal since this isn&#8217;t written for blackberry, so not everything will work&#8230; it&#8217;d be nice if I could find a copy of the jad I mentioned above.. that would work much better</p>
<p>Anyway, then I just emailed that to myself on my Tour, opened it, and it installed.  I ran it and it gave me a code to input on the website.  Again, the buttons didn&#8217;t work, so I had to exit and come back in.  Then it gave me the second code to enter on the website, and it worked!</p>
<p>The icon isn&#8217;t right.. you can&#8217;t go to Menu inside the app.. you CAN resync with # (Alt-Q).. but it works.  You open it and it gives you the authenticator code to login.  Works in WOW and on the website.  Woot.</p>
<p>If  someone out there reading this wants to send me the blizzard_mobile_auth_US_BattleNetAuthenticator_Blackberry_1_0_0.jad file, that would be rad of you.</p>
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		<title>playstation network (psn) down</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2010/03/01/playstation-network-psn-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the &#8220;playstation network&#8221; is &#8220;down&#8221; for users of the older PS3&#8242;s this isn&#8217;t exactly true&#8230; the PSN is UP, it&#8217;s just that older Ps3&#8242;s can&#8217;t connect to it.  The date was reset to 12/31/99, which is outside the settable times.  Any game that stores trophies online won&#8217;t load, saying quit and reload to try and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the &#8220;playstation network&#8221; is &#8220;down&#8221; for users of the older PS3&#8242;s</p>
<p>this isn&#8217;t exactly true&#8230; the PSN is UP, it&#8217;s just that older Ps3&#8242;s can&#8217;t connect to it.  The date was reset to 12/31/99, which is outside the settable times.  Any game that stores trophies online won&#8217;t load, saying quit and reload to try and connect.</p>
<p>I think Ps3s that were turned on yesterday connected and then disconnected and then some flag was thrown south and now we can&#8217;t reconnect.  With the trophies thing, I can&#8217;t believe they wouldn&#8217;t know that PS3s wouldn&#8217;t be connected all the time, and so I&#8217;d think they&#8217;d cache the trophies locally&#8230; I think they had to&#8230; so that leads me to believe &#8220;something happened&#8221; upon connecting to kill the trophy cache, and now we can&#8217;t reconnect.  So, two problems.</p>
<p>Either that or there is another timer inside the PS3 besides the clock.. my &#8220;black box sense&#8221; is telling me it&#8217;s one of those two things.</p>
<p>Anyway, there&#8217;s been a lot of speculation about trophies&#8230; we HAVE NOT lost them&#8230; even though they aren&#8217;t listed on your PS3.  If anyone is worried, login to the PSN website and you&#8217;ll see that they are still there.  No big deal.</p>
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		<title>how to paste as text in excel for barcodes</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2009/10/01/how-to-paste-as-text-barcodes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[if you have a barcode like 047995855086, then the leading 0 is important to have there unfortunately, excel, in it&#8217;s infinite wisdom, will not keep that leading 0 there unless the format of the cell is Text&#8230; so, that should be easy right?&#160; If you have a spreadsheet with 047995855086 in there, and copy it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if you have a barcode like 047995855086, then the leading 0 is important to have there</p>
<p>unfortunately, excel, in it&#8217;s infinite wisdom, will not keep that leading 0 there unless the format of the cell is Text&#8230; </p>
<p>so, that should be easy right?&nbsp; If you have a spreadsheet with 047995855086 in there, and copy it to a cell formatted as Text, it will STILL drop the leading 0.</p>
<p>The magic is you have to paste it from a &#8220;text source&#8221; (I&#8217;m calling it) like Notepad.</p>
<p>so let&#8217;s say you have a huge column of 12 digit barcodes (with no spaces or dashes or anything).. all the leading 0&#8242;s are dropped.</p>
<p>First apply a Custom Formatting to all the cells and put in 12 0&#8242;s &#8230; wowzors&#8230; now we have leading 0&#8242;s.. well, you can SEE leading zeros.. but if you were to copy a cell or reference it or whatever, guess what? &#8230; leading 0&#8242;s dropped</p>
<p>soooo .. now copy that column&#8230; and paste in to NOTEPAD&#8230; ah ha.. magic sauce is brewing!</p>
<p>now, back in the Excel, change that column&#8217;s format to Text &#8230; leading zero&#8217;s are dropped, but the stage is set</p>
<p>back in notepad, copy everything and paste back in to excel&#8230; leading zeros really there (for real) and the cell has a little green triangle in the corner.. you may even get a warning cuz OMFG you have LEADING ZEROS!!!</p>
<p>but.. that&#8217;s what you want&#8230; you win! do a happy dance!</p>
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		<title>the blackberry tour</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2009/08/11/the-blackberry-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I so upgraded my phone to the Blackberry Tour on Sprint.&#160; It has EVDO Rev A and a pretty quick processor&#8230; it&#8217;s a pretty viable computer in the palm of your hand, but still a really great phone.. even clearer that my Pearl was.. which is usually a trade off with other such devices I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I so upgraded my phone to the Blackberry Tour on Sprint.&nbsp; It has EVDO Rev A and a pretty quick processor&#8230; it&#8217;s a pretty viable computer in the palm of your hand, but still a really great phone.. even clearer that my Pearl was.. which is usually a trade off with other such devices I&#8217;ve had.</p>
<p>Connection speed is about 500-600Kbps .. not 1-3Mbps like EVDO Rev A is supposed to give ya, so it&#8217;s really the processor in the thing slowing it down.&nbsp; This is about 10 times faster, in both directions, though than the Pearl.&nbsp; I ran the speed tests using <a href="http://www.xtremelabs.com/apps">Xtreme Labs speedtest</a>.</p>
<p>With the faster stuff and the full keyboard and a speaker that can play LOUD ring tones (I have the volume at half right now, cuz damn), that fixes all the problems I had with the Pearl.</p>
<p>The only problem I&#8217;ve had so far is Google Maps not being able to find the GPS.. I guess they are working on that.&nbsp; I got another app called <a href="http://www.mypoynt.com/">Poynt</a> that I&#8217;ll use unti it gets fixed.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also found an SSH client for the Blackberry which uses MIDP Java stuff found here: <a href="http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/">http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/</a>&nbsp; &#8230; works pretty damn well&#8230; you gotta be sure to put the connection type on TCP/IP .. Default will not work and give a connection string error .. now I can reset shit over ssh from my phone&#8230; it&#8217;s the holy grail I&#8217;ve been looking for since the dawn of time</p>
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		<title>goodbye live writer</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2009/07/02/goodbye-live-writer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been messing with it for so long.. Microsoft Live Writer is SOOO SLOW. I&#8217;ve switched to ScribeFire&#8230; an extension for FireFox.. it is so much better&#8230; I guess not as &#8220;fancy looking&#8221; but it works a whole hell of a lot better&#8230; doesn&#8217;t take a minute to turn it on and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve been messing with it for so long.. Microsoft Live Writer is SOOO SLOW.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve switched to <a href="http://www.scribefire.com/">ScribeFire</a>&#8230; an extension for FireFox.. it is so much better&#8230; I guess not as &#8220;fancy looking&#8221; but it works a whole hell of a lot better&#8230; doesn&#8217;t take a minute to turn it on and another minute to start typing and 5 minutes to publish.. it does all that really really fast.</p>
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		<title>egroupware contact syncing</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2009/06/02/egroupware-contact-syncing-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to reinvent the wheel and make my own contact syncing for egroupware on the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform.. so C# talking to PHP the reason is all the others I&#8217;ve tried don&#8217;t work.. all of them end up in contacts being duplicated.&#160; Also my contact store backend is LDAP and uses LDAP address [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I decided to reinvent the wheel and make my own contact syncing for egroupware on the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform.. so C# talking to PHP</p>
<p>the reason is all the others I&#8217;ve tried don&#8217;t work.. all of them end up in contacts being duplicated.&nbsp; Also my contact store backend is LDAP and uses LDAP address books like egroupware suggests&#8230; still.. doesn&#8217;t work with their syncing stuff.</p>
<p>I have both sending contacts and getting contacts working now.. and you can currently delete all contacts on the device before you read them from the server&#8230; deleting the other way will work eventually too</p>
<p>so nothing ever deletes unless you pick &#8220;delete all before import/export&#8221; .. then it wipes out everything (right now only local deletes work) and sends all changes over</p>
<p>it also never overwrites a contacts filled in attribute with nothing &#8230; there&#8217;s always gotta be &#8220;something&#8221; to overwrite</p>
<p>&#8230; so this isn&#8217;t syncing.. so much as writing one way or the other and filling in what&#8217;s missing, if anything</p>
<p>if anyone out there in the world wants a copy, email me.. I&#8217;ll put up a link somewhere later.. I was thinking about making this a sourceforge thing, but really it&#8217;s for internal use and I don&#8217;t want to &#8220;support&#8221; it for other people</p>
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		<title>everything is VB</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2009/05/14/everything-is-vb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, Microsoft would have you think so. The more I work in MS stuff, the more I realize everything is really just dressed up VB&#8230; C#, .NET, etc &#8230; they just changed the words to make you think you aren&#8217;t writing in BASIC&#8230; feel good&#8230; &#8220;u r totally awsum there guy!&#8221; nice one MS.. nice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, Microsoft would have you think so.</p>
<p>The more I work in MS stuff, the more I realize everything is really just dressed up VB&#8230; C#, .NET, etc &#8230; they just changed the words to make you think you aren&#8217;t writing in BASIC&#8230; feel good&#8230; &#8220;u r totally awsum there guy!&#8221;</p>
<p>nice one MS.. nice one</p>
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		<title>new toy</title>
		<link>http://ds.initiated.com/2008/12/03/new-toy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Mossie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Samsung NC10-14GW &#8230; so far pretty nice.  What did Jon say.. a media consumer and not a media creator.. well.. I&#8217;m blogging from it I went on an uninstalling rampage like I always do.. well.. don&#8217;t uninstall the Easy Display manager.. you need that or you FN keys don&#8217;t work]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Samsung NC10-14GW &#8230; so far pretty nice.  What did Jon say.. a media consumer and not a media creator.. well.. I&#8217;m blogging from it <img src='http://ds.initiated.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I went on an uninstalling rampage like I always do.. well.. don&#8217;t uninstall the Easy Display manager.. you need that or you FN keys don&#8217;t work</p>
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