aaron

Syncing Windows Mobile with OS X and Google Calendar

Image by nino63004 via Flickr Well I did it! I got the HTC Mogul on Sprint’s SERO plan. Everything has been pretty painless so far. Activation was easy, text messaging works, and Internet browsing is pretty fast! Now comes the hard part: getting my data to sync between Windows Mobile and OS X. There is an excellent program out there that is made exactly for this: Missing Sync. While not free, I do...

aaron

Cell phones hurt my brain

But not in the radiation kind of way… in the omg-too-many-things-to-think-about kind of way. I’m in the market for a new cell phone and provider. I’ve been on a Verizon family plan for the last 5 years, always with the free phone that comes with the plan. I’m switching to my own plan when the family contract is up. I’ve been pretty happy with the quality of calls on Verizon,...

aaron

Caller ID Box

Update: Everything looks like it should be working, and I even modified the answering_machine.c script a little bit. But for some reason, it appears as though the modem is just never receiving the ring signal. It may be because I am running it in a dual processor machine. I am going to reinstall linux in a single processor machine and try again.

aaron

Fun with caller ID!

We just got caller ID at my house. One of my roommates doesn’t have a cell phone, so eventually everyone else stopped answering the house phone because it was always for him. But then he would come home and not know who called. Now of course, caller ID solves this problem by logging who called on the phone handset, but being me, that is not enough! My plan is to hook up a computer to the phone...

aaron

2/4 failed drives in a raid5 array??

Apparently raid arrays don’t like it when you kill power to the machine. We’ve been doing remodeling in the house, and I’ve been turning on and off breakers. Apparently I forgot which breaker the servers were on, and turned it off accidentally a few times. One of the drives apparently did fail for some reason. I accept this. This happens all the time, and that is exactly why I have a...