Having watched the TouchPro 2 roll out to all the other major carriers in the US, AT&T finally got their version, renamed the Tilt 2. AT&T released their edition with Windows Mobile 6.5 right out the gate, which is why I suspect it was held back… I patiently waited for its release, and went out and got it the day after the release… So what do I think?

After recently pushing out SP2 for Office 2007, I started getting errors from Symantec DLO right after Outlook would start. This is a known issue, and there are a few workarounds, as well as a patch now. See Symantec’s document ID 323991. Always fun to have incompatibility.

As a follow up to the previous Tinkering with Temperature post, here is more on what I did, and how.

Back in January, Microsoft announced a new project called Tag at CES</a>. In Microsoft’s words, Tag is:

Microsoft Tag is a marketing solution that enables consumers to access and share useful and fun content in a simple way. It also helps marketers engage with consumers in meaningful and creative ways, and to measure effectiveness.

They also call it colorful, and capable of transforming traditional marketing media. I started toying with it a little bit then, but not much until recently when they announced a new API¹.

I’ve been meaning to get some proper stats setup for my mail server, but until then, I’ve been mostly content with reading the LogWatch reports from my server. It has been dutifully analyzing my log files, and giving me all kinds of useful data, such as the mail stats from Saturday, 18th July…

Sometimes my blog is all over the place. Mostly work related, and other times it springs back to stuff about me, or stuff I’m working on outside of work. This is a cross-over project I’ve been working on (and something I’ve wanted to play with for a while). A temperature sensor…

I’m currently working on rebuilding a server on a project, and went to hit the tab key to auto-complete¹, when I was presented a delightful error…

$ vim RE-sh: <( compgen -d -- 'RE' ): No such file or directory
-sh: <( eval compgen -f -X '*.@(o|so|so.!(conf)|a|rpm|gif|GIF|jp?(e)g|JP?(E)G|mp3|MP3|mp?(e)g|MPG|avi|AVI|asf|ASF|ogg|OGG|class|CLASS)' -- $(quote_readline $cur) ): No such file or directory

This is actually a reported bug in Debian [#502804] and is caused by using /bin/sh as a shell, rather than /bin/bash due to some POSIX compliant code. A simple change to the shell until they release the fix…

usermod –s /bin/bash jangliss

And we’re all set again.

One of my more popular posts, oddly, is about CapitalOne and Fraud, which is going on nearly 2 years old now. There are a number of comments on the thread, but I noticed something that just started bugging me. When replying, I had no way of creating a nicely formatted reply (threading).

So I went in search of plugins, and discovered that Wordpress 2.7.1 actually supports it natively, you just have to update your themes. I found a great reference here which detailed how to do it, but it seemed to not work, so I went in search of more details. I found that the old comment handling used to be performed using an array, and you’d have to setup the formatting yourself. They now provide a nifty function wp_list_comments that outputs the entire array of comments for you, including all the settings for the reply information.

You can see the new modifications at work here on this post, see the second comment down is indented to reflect a comment to Bill.

I’ve been on the SquirrelMail project for quite some time now, and an administrator on the project for several years. One of the things that has always been an issue has donations. As there are multiple people that contribute to the project at varying levels at different times, we’ve never figured out a good way to handle donations. Other projects, such as MySQL, setup a foundation, and generate enough donations that they’re capable of supporting full time working developers. Whilst it’d definitely be cool to do that, we’re not there project wise. So recently Paul sent out a rather interesting option, and it hit the lists.

He gave the users the ability to donate to individual people on the project, as well as sign up for bounties. The copy of the announcement can be found here. The other option was bounties. This has been used on several open source projects before, and the idea is that people “sponsor” a project, bug, or target. There are already several listed, but we’re always looking for more ideas. So if you have some, submit an idea.

One of the things I’ve been working on is migrating our equipment over to the corporate domain off of our domain. For the most part, this has been relatively easy, and given me some changes to fix some things I’ve wanted to get to, but not had time to. One of the stumbling blocks was cutting the file server over to the new server.