So it’s finally time to release my IAX softphone for Macintosh. It’s still very much in beta, but I need feedback on how everything works. There’s a lot of stuff that I’m adding that didn’t make it into this release. Have a look here.
So we have another Mac OS X virus warning going around the net. And it’s like reporters must have validation for their hate of the mac.
A OS X myth is shattered to pieces - Silicon Valley SleuthI’m sorry to report that it’s not a virus, it’s a trojan, and it does not spread. The trojan poses as a compressed file, and when you double click on it, you need to enter your administrator password to activate it. Not really what I would call a virus. This is something that a total ass hat would be able to program in Applescript in about ten minutes. I’m certain that we will see a virus that actually works under Mac OS X sooner or later, but this is not it. So I guess that companies like Sophos needs to hype up something else to sell their products.
A version 1.0 stable of the Camino web browser has been released. It uses Gekko rendering motor, same as in Firefox, but the UI is written in glorious Cocoa. So I have switched over to it. The import of bookmarks was easy, just select import bookmarks under the file-meny and select Safari. I think I’m going to like this browser.
I just need to write rudimentary install instructions, finish the simple homepage for downloading and I’m in business. So any day now…
If you are in a hurry, mail me at info@jackenhack.com and ask if you can join the beta team.
I used to be fascinated by the idea of a voice interface to the computer. That was until I actually used one. It feels awkward and it’s slow. Yeah it has some use in specific applications, but for general use, I think it will never be. Back in 1983 Hewlett Packard released a computer called HP 150 that used touch-screens. My boss thought that I needed to go though their authorization courses to learn about this new revolutionary computer they where going to sell. So I was excited (this was before the mac). It was kind of fun to see that the attendees was fascinated and used the touch-sceen for the first fifteen minutes, but it was just to slow and uncomfortable to use, so everyone, including the teacher, started to use the keyboard. So I just wrote that computer off. And I’ve been skeptical about touch-screen input ever since. Until I saw this and was blown away! If a tablet computer had something like this I’d sell my body to science to get one. And science would probably reject the body and demand a refund. But then it’s to late, I’m dead and I have a tablet computer! Muhahahaa!
The last couple of weeks I’ve been thinking of building a small headphone amplifier. I want to tap into the line-out of my iPod to get better sound. I also have a problem with my headphone jack on my pod. After fighting with Hermans dog, he managed to get his paw entangled in my headphone cables and destroyed the cable jack. So I have searched the net to try to find a good amplifier to build (I don’t have the money to buy one right now), and I found the Cmoy headphone amplifier. But I used another build page that has some upgrades to it. Unfortunately I could not find the bread board they used, so I had to make my own design. So after a couple of hours of soldering and using a drill it was time to try it out. And it worked! No debugging or anything. This must be a first.
So how does it sound? Loud! And I think the quality is very good. I have tested them on my Shure e2c, Koss MX100 and my Sennheiser 600. I didn’t do a lot of listening with the 600, but the Koss MX 100 get a big quality improvement. Will continue to test it out tomorrow.
A new beta firmware is available here for the Grandstream GXP-2000 ip-phone. This update adds a number of new features, one of the nicest feature is an address book. This phone gets better and better for every update.
Source: Asterisk VoIP News
So I finally got my 100 mbit internet connection. Yay! But after testing the speed through my WRT54G router/firewall, I could not get higher speeds than around 20 mbit/sec. After assembling an old 300 mhz pc with three Ethernet cards and the SmoothWall linux firewall I get around 70 mbits/sec. I will probably try to overclock the poor old pc to 400 mhz tomorrow. To try everything out, I downloaded the XCode 2.2.1 development image from Apple. It’s around 800 mb and it took just a couple of minutes. I could get used to this.
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