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Friday, May 3 2013
[16:38:11]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
Apparently there's a XEP for this (277). It seems much more complicated:
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html
http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0277.html
Monday, April 22 2013
PhotoShelter
[13:35:25] matt [wronka.org]/Trip "There were no images inappropriately downloaded from his PhotoShelter site without permission," PhotoShelter CEO Andrew Fingerman wrote to News Photographer in the aftermath. "All of the images appearing on blogs and the media were screenshots of his site ... the security of PhotoShelter's download access was not breached."
https://nppa.org/node/60950
[13:35:25] matt [wronka.org]/Trip "There were no images inappropriately downloaded from his PhotoShelter site without permission," PhotoShelter CEO Andrew Fingerman wrote to News Photographer in the aftermath. "All of the images appearing on blogs and the media were screenshots of his site ... the security of PhotoShelter's download access was not breached."
https://nppa.org/node/60950
Sunday, April 21 2013
[15:14:11]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
Michael Spellman said he bought tickets to Saturday’s Red Sox game at Fenway Park to help send a message to the bombers.
‘‘They’re not going to stop us from doing things we love to do,’’ he said, sitting a few rows behind home plate. ‘‘We’re not going to live in fear.’’
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/04/21/interrogators-wait-question-bombing-suspect/uFBMZr3aHZSHtsIYJhTfpN/story.html
Also an important point from that article:
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said the legal exception applies only when there is a continued threat to public safety and is ‘‘not an open-ended exception’’ to the Miranda rule, which guarantees the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
The federal public defender’s office in Massachusetts said it has agreed to represent Tsarnaev once he is charged. Miriam Conrad, public defender for Massachusetts, said he should have a lawyer appointed as soon as possible because there are ‘‘serious issues regarding possible interrogation.’’
‘‘They’re not going to stop us from doing things we love to do,’’ he said, sitting a few rows behind home plate. ‘‘We’re not going to live in fear.’’
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/04/21/interrogators-wait-question-bombing-suspect/uFBMZr3aHZSHtsIYJhTfpN/story.html
Also an important point from that article:
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said the legal exception applies only when there is a continued threat to public safety and is ‘‘not an open-ended exception’’ to the Miranda rule, which guarantees the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
The federal public defender’s office in Massachusetts said it has agreed to represent Tsarnaev once he is charged. Miriam Conrad, public defender for Massachusetts, said he should have a lawyer appointed as soon as possible because there are ‘‘serious issues regarding possible interrogation.’’
Friday, April 19 2013
[10:01:15]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
Apparently Twitter changed the location of their their RSS feeds without instituting any redirects. Not cool URIs.
[17:22:27]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
It's not an expletive if the sentence is incomplete without it, as in: "he was becoming a complete [expletive]" is incorrect and fails to convey information without the reader speculating.
Tuesday, April 16 2013
El día despues de ayer
[16:13:37] matt [wronka.org]/Trip A United Airlines flight that was about to take off for Chicago was brought back to the gate after passengers expressed concern over two people speaking a foreign language, according to aviation authorities. Passengers and bags were taken off the plane and rescreened, and two people were rebooked on a later flight. The aircraft was then “swept and cleared for takeoff,” according to United Airlines spokeswoman Christen David.
http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2013/04/16/two-logan-flights-disrupted-due-security-concerns/upxH1OjOG9bWOAK9R0ZBzI/story.html
[16:13:37] matt [wronka.org]/Trip A United Airlines flight that was about to take off for Chicago was brought back to the gate after passengers expressed concern over two people speaking a foreign language, according to aviation authorities. Passengers and bags were taken off the plane and rescreened, and two people were rebooked on a later flight. The aircraft was then “swept and cleared for takeoff,” according to United Airlines spokeswoman Christen David.
http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2013/04/16/two-logan-flights-disrupted-due-security-concerns/upxH1OjOG9bWOAK9R0ZBzI/story.html
Monday, April 15 2013
Patriot's Day 2013
[08:55:25] matt [wronka.org]/Trip http://matt.wronka.org/pictures/gallery/temporal/2013/04/14/#qdig-dirnav
[08:55:25] matt [wronka.org]/Trip http://matt.wronka.org/pictures/gallery/temporal/2013/04/14/#qdig-dirnav
Friday, April 12 2013
[23:03:18]
whistlewright [parlementum.net]/
Recording your Life.
Tuesday, April 9 2013
[15:03:44]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
I'm looking to replace my OpenMesh routers/APs.
What I want:
Multiple SSIDs (at least three)
802.1q support (VLAN per SSID)
802.11ac
The option I've found so far is dd-wrt on an Asus RT-AC66U.
What I want:
Multiple SSIDs (at least three)
802.1q support (VLAN per SSID)
802.11ac
The option I've found so far is dd-wrt on an Asus RT-AC66U.
[15:04:43]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
I'm looking to replace my OpenMesh routers/APs.
What I want:
Multiple SSIDs (at least three)
802.1q support (VLAN per SSID)
802.11ac
RADIUS support (and independent authentication/encryption per SSID)
The option I've found so far is dd-wrt on an Asus RT-AC66U.
What I want:
Multiple SSIDs (at least three)
802.1q support (VLAN per SSID)
802.11ac
RADIUS support (and independent authentication/encryption per SSID)
The option I've found so far is dd-wrt on an Asus RT-AC66U.
Tuesday, April 2 2013
AppRiver defines aliases
[13:31:47] matt [wronka.org]/Trip "an alternate email address at which you can also receive mail to."
[13:31:47] matt [wronka.org]/Trip "an alternate email address at which you can also receive mail to."
Saturday, March 23 2013
[15:44:32]
matt [wronka.org]/navic
"Screen reader users, click here to turn off Google Instant"
Tuesday, March 19 2013
[09:06:39]
matt [wronka.org]/Trip
MailAvenger doesn't handle empty local parts apparently.
[22:41:56]
matt [wronka.org]/navic
"Goodfeather" homage in Bolt!
Thursday, March 14 2013
Customer: You Will Hold
[22:16:30] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay After dealing with multi-hour gaps in Internet service from Comcast and spotty HD channels since last year, we've finally scheduled a tech to come visit. The video service was quite quick to schedule (it only required to phone calls and an hour wait inbetween) but they couldn't include the Internet connection in the same service call without sending us over to that department first even though the logical conclusion is that both failures were related.
While the television department representitive appeared in under three minutes (including phone tree), there was about five minutes of hold time once transferred to the network department which included a startling command of "Customer: Please hold for a representatve." followed shortly by a reminder that our call was very important. Finally, after reaching a person and convincing him to look at the existing ticket just placed there he ran some diagnostics (apparently the script referrs to the coaxial cable as the "cable plugged into the wall", despite in my situation that best describes the power cable, and even then only through a lose definition of "inside"). After sufficient reassurances that he was convinced that my service was all out to my premise—apparently that's a magic encantation to short circuit further diagnosing, since I assured him that while the Internet and broadcast/live television was out Comcast's On-Demand functionality worked—he added the Internet service to the work order.
Meanwhile, and while I type this, our Verizon FTTH service hasn't had any loss of service in the two months it's been here.
[22:16:30] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay After dealing with multi-hour gaps in Internet service from Comcast and spotty HD channels since last year, we've finally scheduled a tech to come visit. The video service was quite quick to schedule (it only required to phone calls and an hour wait inbetween) but they couldn't include the Internet connection in the same service call without sending us over to that department first even though the logical conclusion is that both failures were related.
While the television department representitive appeared in under three minutes (including phone tree), there was about five minutes of hold time once transferred to the network department which included a startling command of "Customer: Please hold for a representatve." followed shortly by a reminder that our call was very important. Finally, after reaching a person and convincing him to look at the existing ticket just placed there he ran some diagnostics (apparently the script referrs to the coaxial cable as the "cable plugged into the wall", despite in my situation that best describes the power cable, and even then only through a lose definition of "inside"). After sufficient reassurances that he was convinced that my service was all out to my premise—apparently that's a magic encantation to short circuit further diagnosing, since I assured him that while the Internet and broadcast/live television was out Comcast's On-Demand functionality worked—he added the Internet service to the work order.
Meanwhile, and while I type this, our Verizon FTTH service hasn't had any loss of service in the two months it's been here.
Thursday, March 7 2013
[22:04:39]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
Oddly, it's now cheaper for me to call the London, England ($0.0078/min) than it is for me to call London, CT ($0.0095/min).
[22:05:09]
matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay
That's a big difference from MCI's ten cents a minute.
Tuesday, March 5 2013
GnuPG and eMail Address Validation
[23:40:40] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay It's bothered me for some time that GNU Privacy Guard (gpg or gnupg) rejects valid eMail addresses. It feels like a piece of software that should get eMail validation correct, despite how often others get it wrong.
It turns out that GPG actually let's any non-ASCII character through ostensibly for PGP compatability. I patched the validation routines to also allow some cases it was currently rejecting. This means that although this isn't a 100% to-spec validation routine, it should at least allow all valid cases.
http://matt.wronka.org/stuff/projects/icpp/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.13-emailvalidator.diff
[23:40:40] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay It's bothered me for some time that GNU Privacy Guard (gpg or gnupg) rejects valid eMail addresses. It feels like a piece of software that should get eMail validation correct, despite how often others get it wrong.
It turns out that GPG actually let's any non-ASCII character through ostensibly for PGP compatability. I patched the validation routines to also allow some cases it was currently rejecting. This means that although this isn't a 100% to-spec validation routine, it should at least allow all valid cases.
http://matt.wronka.org/stuff/projects/icpp/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.13-emailvalidator.diff
Friday, February 22 2013
Ubuntu Tablet
[10:18:24] matt [wronka.org]/Trip The Ubuntu tablet sounds not too dissimilar to something I've been describing with it's ability to shift from tablet to PC. The rest of it sounds pretty neat too, albeit very fluffy at the moment.
I see in it's marketing pieces that someone's editing a photo using a slider control to adjust brightness. What I still need in a tablet is the ability to run Darktable, access AFS (generally, load kernel modules), and ensure a colour-corrected display. Not exactly mainstream demands, but I'm hoping (possibly in vain) that this brings us closer.
[10:18:24] matt [wronka.org]/Trip The Ubuntu tablet sounds not too dissimilar to something I've been describing with it's ability to shift from tablet to PC. The rest of it sounds pretty neat too, albeit very fluffy at the moment.
I see in it's marketing pieces that someone's editing a photo using a slider control to adjust brightness. What I still need in a tablet is the ability to run Darktable, access AFS (generally, load kernel modules), and ensure a colour-corrected display. Not exactly mainstream demands, but I'm hoping (possibly in vain) that this brings us closer.
Wednesday, February 20 2013
IPv6 on Mobile
[22:40:59] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay T-Mobile supports native IPv6; I played around with it a bit on my N900 during their open beta phase. It's now mainstream, and rolled into their standard APN which anybody who's signed-up for an account in the last six years or so would probably be on (apparently some of my phones are still on the old Voicestream APNs which have at least recently still worked). According to them, only certain Android phones still work (half of them are Nexus brands). All recent Nokia phones (S40, Symbian) dating about at least five years should work fine too, the S40 phone I had has an option for it but I seem to recall it didn't work during the beta phase, and Nokia didn't want to support it.
Nokia Belle (S60) on the other hand was as easy as selecting "Advanced Options" from the network definition (when not connected) and changing the type from "IPv4" to "IPv6"; everything works from that point on. Well, except the native SIP client which wouldn't connect anymore (to my IPv4 server) and my J2ME Jabber client which wouldn't connect to (or resolve, I'm not sure which) the server. All synchronization, Opera Mobile, and in-built eMail worked fine; but the SIP client is a deal breaker.
[22:40:59] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.generay T-Mobile supports native IPv6; I played around with it a bit on my N900 during their open beta phase. It's now mainstream, and rolled into their standard APN which anybody who's signed-up for an account in the last six years or so would probably be on (apparently some of my phones are still on the old Voicestream APNs which have at least recently still worked). According to them, only certain Android phones still work (half of them are Nexus brands). All recent Nokia phones (S40, Symbian) dating about at least five years should work fine too, the S40 phone I had has an option for it but I seem to recall it didn't work during the beta phase, and Nokia didn't want to support it.
Nokia Belle (S60) on the other hand was as easy as selecting "Advanced Options" from the network definition (when not connected) and changing the type from "IPv4" to "IPv6"; everything works from that point on. Well, except the native SIP client which wouldn't connect anymore (to my IPv4 server) and my J2ME Jabber client which wouldn't connect to (or resolve, I'm not sure which) the server. All synchronization, Opera Mobile, and in-built eMail worked fine; but the SIP client is a deal breaker.