Scrapers are a part of the internet, so rather than get angry, I get even. A scraper site is a web site that copies content of other sites and republishes them as their own content. I actually don’t have a problem as long as the scraper site leaves links intact, so it links back to [...]
…When I’m not working on linux, I’ve been working on some websites. Mainly blogs, but also some ebay affiliate sites that are usually attached to blogs. I’m trying to get 30 up to start with, but I’m not very commited, I’ve got five going, oldest one is five months old. Once I hit 30, I’ll [...]
I’ve been stuck on this problem for a week. It’s for a solar funnel I’m working on (no, it’s not homework) I’m trying to workout an equation that solves theta given x and y. The idea is to have the funnel as wide as possible (smallest theta) so sun hitting the very top of the [...]
One of the minor issues I had since installing ubuntu on my eee pc was I couldn’t work out how to turn the wifi off. There’s a Fn+F2 key combo that works in xandros, but it didn’t work for me in ubuntu. I tried googling for the answer and got nowhere. So, for google, to [...]
Inspired by Paul Fenwick’s entertaining talk on cleaning up the web at LCA (in other words, I ripped it off) I set out to make google reader more useable on the Eee. But first, an invaluable Firefox plugin to have for the Eee is Nuke Anything Enhanced. It lets you right click on an object [...]
On 02/03/2008, at 10:30 AM, phil colbourn wrote: Last week Pakistan Telecom was ordered by their government to block access to youtube. They did this by re-directing routes containing the youtube addresses to an internal dead-end. A mistake was made that advertised this to their peer and thus the remainder of the internet. The IP [...]
Just got a new office. An Eee PC (JB HiFi had them for $450), and a 3G wireless internet connection (5Gigs/month for $39/month). Not really sure how much time I’m going to get out of it with the usb wireless modem connected, I’ve been told the modem sucks the juice. Got a bit of experimenting [...]
I got freeswitch working with google talk. There were a few bugs in mod_dingaling that were causing segfaults, they’re fixed in the latest update. I called from gtalk on my XP vm to my e65 via SIP, audio is working. I commented out the line <param name=”ext-rtp-ip” value=”$${external_rtp_ip}”/> from conf/jingle_profiles/client.xml . To make calls from [...]
One of the reasons I chose to spend time with freeswitch over yate was google talk integration. Was a good choice, I think, for more than just gtalk. The endpoint that talks to gtalk is mod_dingaling, and it’s not compiled by default. So to enable it, uncomment #endpoints/mod_dingaling from modules.conf in your source tree and [...]
I updated my FreeSWITCH svn tree the other day and was surprised how much had changed. The configuration structure was completely rearranged. I had to start from scratch. Lots of new goodies, though. My VoIP provider has their own voicemail system that kicks in after 20 seconds, there doesn’t appear to be a way to [...]