Bulldog have contacted me and will install on Wednesday - so I’ll have to change DNS details then - which may take up to 2 or 3 days to propagate.
I’ll contact Easynet on Tuesday to let them know I’m still connected to them, so I should go dark after that.
See you after the change-over (I hope…)
(edit - changed days to be accurate.)
Get your 4-colour biros ready:
USA States
I got:
80% - 40/50
Avg. Error: 92 Miles,
European Countries
I got:
Correct: - 39/44 - 89%
Ave. Error: 81 miles
Time 294 Secs.
What happens when an Apple Design Award winner’s curiosity makes him want to find out what’s in the glowing award?
There’s even a video of the slices of the award.
I’ve been having a weird problem with iChat for the last month - I couldn’t get voice or video chats to connect (either making outgoing, or accepting incoming).
I’d start a chat, the other person would accept and I’d get an error “Failed to start because {other party’s name} cancelled.” The other party would then get this error: “Failed to start because Diggory Laycock did not respond ”
The errors would be the other way round if the roles were reversed . It looked just like a NAT or Firewall issue - but I knew it wasn’t (because I don’t use either.)
This morning I just figured it out - my VOIP softphone (X-Lite) which I have as a startup item was using the same ports (they both use SIP.)
So - if someone calls you on iChat - or you plan to call someone else - make sure that your softphone is not running.
I post this in case anyone else finds themselves with the same problem.
Recently (not sure when) my copy of iChat stopped working properly - it would not accept video from my FireWire webcam. All that was shown was a black screen:
Strangely the camera worked as expected in other QuickTime apps:
I tried re-installing iChat and trashing prefs - but nothing helped.
It turns out that the problem was with an old version of a bit of software called SIMBL. (SIMBL is installed as part of the PithHelmet Ad-Blocker.)
Install the new version of SIMBL and all is well again.
A very Big WiFi network.
HDTV - We maybe behind on this front in the EU - but we’re getting there. (see also Sky planning HD delivery).
That lead me to this site: Which has interesting articles about DAB and DVB-H and more on HDTV.
I’m moving from MovableType to WordPress - Please excuse any temporary breakages.
So far - so good. Alas it doesn’t seem to make me a better blogger- but the install and import from MT was silky smooth and nice and easy.
