http://njr.sabi.net Nicholas Riley’s weblog Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:57:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally moved everything off PBXes today. (Of course, I can't delete the PBXes account until it expires.) I feel quite a bit better to no longer be trusting my phone service to a company like that. I replaced it with Yate and FreeSentral running on a VPS. I ... http://njr.sabi.net/2011/03/19/free/ Since my posts to their forum keep getting deleted, I'll post here. Here's what happened: August 10: I created a free account (nriley). August 12: Happy with the service, I created another free account for my father (griley). Because I liked the service so much, I decided to upgrade to a paid service—supporting automatic ... http://njr.sabi.net/2010/10/05/pbxes/ I became so incredibly frustrated with Android last night that I had to vent somewhere. Sorry for all of you who have heard this before. With the hiptop, it seemed that there was some considerable effort expended in asking "what is annoying about using devices on a flaky cellular network?" The ... http://njr.sabi.net/2010/03/29/android-venting/ Get it. Pester 1.1 has been a long time coming. It’s been my own personal battle with the second-system effect. 1.1b8 is a big step towards finishing, though. -rw-r--r-- 1 nriley users 295049 Oct 14 2002 Pester-1.0.dmg -rw-r--r-- 1 nriley users 428727 Jan 7 ... http://njr.sabi.net/2010/03/25/pester-11b8-released/ NCIDpop is a client for the NCID (Network Caller ID) server. See previous posts for more information on my work with NCIDpop. New in this version: Optional Growl notification support. Formats phone numbers using Address Book preferences. Skip leading 0s for Address Book lookup (useful outside the US/Canada). Fixed saving of reverse lookup URL when ... http://njr.sabi.net/2010/01/11/ncidpop-0916-released/ I was going to write a longer Android post, but really, just go read this. Android might be a bit more tolerable if I hadn't actually used better handheld devices, in the form of the hiptop, iPod touch/iPhone, early Palm OS and the Newton. If you really do want to read ... http://njr.sabi.net/2010/01/09/android-thoughts-part-2/ The rather anticlimactic conclusion to my mobile phone dilemma in June was the G1. I didn’t like it at the time and still don’t; however, the writing was on the wall for the hiptop, finally drained of life by Microsoft, and it was the only viable choice for smartphone-with-keyboard at ... http://njr.sabi.net/2010/01/05/android-thoughts/ Last year I worked on NCIDpop, a network caller ID client originally written by Alexei Kosut. I recently spent a day or so doing some further hacking on NCIDpop to fix problems I and others had noticed. My changes have now been incorporated in an official release. What's new: Address Book reverse ... http://njr.sabi.net/2009/06/16/ncidpop-0915-released/ If you use a persistent screen session on a machine running OpenAFS, you've likely experienced long delays and confusion when your tickets and tokens expire. The Screen and Kerberos patches will create a credentials cache for your screen session and automatically renew tickets. That's a start, but your tokens still expire. A ... http://njr.sabi.net/2009/05/19/renewing-a-screen-session-with-kerberos-afs/ ICeCoffEE 1.5b5 is out. The only remaining known bug I plan to fix before 1.5 final relates to disabling localized services. This version includes bug fixes and compatibility updates (particularly for Safari 4 Beta), as well as no longer doing anything if you ⌘-click outside text on a Web page in ... http://njr.sabi.net/2009/02/24/icecoffee-15b5/