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Cell phone's battery

Well, it seems that the V3m’s battery life sucks. I am going to have to chalk this one up to Sprint’s stupidity. The same phone, with other carriers, is capable of lasting longer on the battery than Sprint’s. I even got their own employees to admit to this, but they insist that the fault does not lie with them (the company). They claim that the firmware for the phone is loaded by the manufacturer, Motorola, in a sort of sly way to pass the blame on to them. The problem is that I know the firmware is modified by the carrier and the manufacturer loads different firmware for different carriers. So that means they are really at fault. In the mean time, I have found a few ways to increase the battery life. The longest I have gotten it to last is 22 hours on a charge, but ATM, it has been 12 hours, and the battery indicator is showing 3 out of 3 bars, so maybe it will last longer this time. Anyway, the tips for a longer battery with Sprint:

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, March 29, 2007

Messina Hof

Well, today I went on the tour of Messina Hof, a local winery. My mom insists that it is famous, but I am going to have to take her word for it. After the tour, they had a wine tasting. The had four wines for us:

Chardonnay
Gewurztraminer
Merlot
Port

I had never heard of the Gewurztraminer before, but I have to say that I liked it. Their port was also good, but I knew from the previous wine tasting that I liked port in general. Anyway, the place was pretty and definitely worth going.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Saturday, March 24, 2007

New Cell Phone

Well, I finally did it. I changed my cell phone provider. I switched to Sprint. There were a few reasons for this. One of the more notable is that they seem to cover my parents’ place the best, and thus they changed as well. After my previous experience with Verizon, there was no way I would go back to them. In addition, there is the fact that they like to cripple their phones so you have to use (and pay) for their services instead of being able to use the capabilities they phone is supposed to have in order to sync with the computer.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, March 22, 2007

I finally Quit

Well, it has been a long time since I posted here. The reason is not lack of things to say, but in fact the opposite. Much has been going on, but so much of it is in an unresolved state, I don’t want to say anything here about it (since this is open to the public). I can say that I finally quite as the sysadmin. I told my advisor that that it was effective immediately. He didn’t try to stop me, but also there really is nothing he can do about it. I didn’t sign a contract, and I am not paid. The real question in my mind is why do it?

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Saturday, February 24, 2007

Fixing File Transfer

I work on Adium from time to time, and it currently has a major issue with file transfer. The problem is that the libgaim code used a particular method to detect if a socket was closed, but this method isn’t reliable since Adium wraps the sockets in CFSockets to detect activity. So, we had to use another method. I elected to take some code from Fire since I solved the same problem there a while back. Here it is for the curious: