Monthly Archives: January 2006

Apples silence and my Powerbooks echo

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Still having problems with looping echo on my Powerbook G4 15″ There’s a new website about the problem, so go there and sign up if you experience this problem.

It’s incredible that Apple has chosen to keep this problem quiet. Instead of admitting that they have a problem with the latest 15 and 17″ Powerbooks. Instead they give lame excuses and tells the customer that they can only run one audio program at a time. But even that doesn’t work. Give it enough time, and this could become a PR nightmare for them. If they just admitted that they have a problem and that a fix is on the way, but right now no one even knows if they are going to fix this.

My guess is that it’s a hardware problem and that they fear that they need to replace the motherboard on all HighRes Powerbooks…

Waiting time

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I haven’t had time to update my blog for a while. The last couple of days has been spent trying to hunt down an annoying bug in my IAX client I’m writing. Sometimes when dialing in, my program would not get a notification from the Asterisk server that a call was in progress. So I have tested all sorts of things to try to find the bug. So today I finally used tcpdump to see exactly what kind of packets I got from the server. And the problem was that I connected from the inside of my firewall, out trough and back again! So it was just an miss-configuration, the program has been working all along. Isn’t the Darwin award coming up soon?

Flip4Mac free

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Flip4Mac I bought Flip4Mac a few weeks ago, and now it’s free. Typical. But go get it. Now you can finally watch Windows Media files directly in Quicktime without having to use Microsoft Windows Media Player for mac, a really crappy piece of software. Even Microsoft think so, so now they recommend you to use Flip4Mac instead. Go here and get it.

TomTom totally DumDum?

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So here you have a company that sells GPS navigation equipment. And naturally they don’t want to make software available for a operating system with only 3-5% of users (that studies showed have more money to spend than the average Windows user) But another company called Equinux stepped in and made a program for downloading updates and maps so Mac users could buy a TomTom Navigator and use it. So TomTom got the sale, don’t have to spend money on support and development of the Mac software. You would guess they would be happy with that? But no. Instead they threaten Equinux to stop sell the program.

There can be only two reasons for this. Either they are developing their own solution, or they are totally stupid. And I will never buy a TomTom.

VU Meter

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Vumeter

I’ve been hard at work on my IAX client software the last couple of days. I also have re-written a lot of the code. I decided early on that I wanted to have classical VU-meters to display the in and output volume. But I don’t want them to take to much CPU time. So I made a lot of optimizations on that code. So after the rewrite I managed to lower the CPU utilisation by half. And it’s fun to do programming in Cocoa, but the framework is hard to learn by the volume of it. But slowly I’m getting more comfortable.