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Archive for December, 2004
Played Half Life 2
December 27th, 2004Back in Business with MPx220 and Bluetooth
December 27th, 2004I finally broke down and re-purchased the MPx220 yesterday. I had returned the one I reported on earlier to Best Buy with no incidence. It pays to pack things perfectly back in their boxes. I am pleased to finally permanently own this great phone. I also wanted to try out the blue tooth adapter. Boy has that been miserable. The Actiontec support person had no clue and lots of research on the Internet shows that bluetooth PC interfaces appear to still be in their infancy and even XP only recently added native BT support to SP2.
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The Christmas of Toys
December 27th, 2004I haven’t even scratched the surface of opening and actually being able to spend some quality time getting to know my new collection of toys from all of the generous gift givers this Christmas. Here is the list:
AT&T Came Through
December 27th, 2004I was not suprised to see a package on my doorstep on Christmas Eve with all of the last minute presents coming through but I when I saw the label I was amazed. FexEx overnight from AT&T. Here it was, the MTA I begged for but was told I couldn’t have. I took it out of the box quickly noticing the prepaid UPS return label and plugged it in down stairs. After restoring the config and re-registering it with Callvantage, a quick ring-back confirmed it was up. I picked up the receiver and dialed, it rang, no whine. There is still a slight hiss like a data connection noise in the background but much more acceptable. I am pleased to now officially have successfully transferred from Vonage to AT&T. It only took 2 months, about 35 phone calls and at least 1″ of my hairline to complete.
No More Vonage
December 24th, 2004I had the joy of cancelling my Vonage account yesterday. Not suprisingly, they gave me a very hard time and charged me $41.99 per line for the cancellation. They are kind enough to refund one of the cancellation fees as soon as I return the router but the customer service guy I talked to said that the automated system usually doesn’t work so he put a note on my account. All in all, they owe me almost $200 in credits for all the screw ups. I won’t find out how much of that I get until the MTA gets back to them. I can’t wait to finally be done with all of this. Merry Christmas Eve day to everybody!
Ping to Blo.gs working!
December 21st, 2004Thanks to Jeff, I am finally able to automatically ping blo.gs when submitting blogs through the w.bloggar xmlrpc interface. Hooray! The code was ugly but after only 2 hours, we were able to isolate the problem and resolve it. The next step will be to correctly call the code that pings multiple blogroll services as is done in the native post interface.
Cleaned up the RSS Feed
December 21st, 2004Due to reports of issues with RSS I have edited the RSS code with a fix. The fix was in the bblog forums
Callvantage Tech Support – Miserable
December 21st, 2004Nick was kind enough to come over and bring his Callvantage TA box over for testing to make sure the whining noise went away and sure enough, it did! Now we have isolated the problem as a defective TA. I called Callvantage to tell them the good news and they said that they want him to bring it back and connect it up and call in so they can hear the difference. Are you kidding me? They don’t believe me and must think that I just want an extra TA or something. My call was actually answered in 6 minutes this time but took 30 minutes of instant messaging between the tier 1 support person and the escalations departmet to determine that my diagnosis wasn’t good enough for them to ship a new adapter. I must now wait until my ticket is worked in the queue before I will get this resolved. 48-hours left until porting is complete. Maybe I should cancel before then. We will see.
Another week without the MPx220
December 20th, 2004So I returned the MPx220 a few weeks ago deciding that $1000 was too much for 2 phones and I would wait until the good days were back of a $50 MPx220. I thought it would surely be now, the week before Christmas but low and behold the rebates are still stuck at $150 off the phone with a 2-year contract. Lame. The other concern is that the rebate only applies to 1 of the 2 phones if I sign up for the family plan. We will see how the day after Chirstmas goes but at this rate I may have to settle for paying too much for the phone and getting two separate lines. I now have a case for the phone so what next?
Callvantage is in!
December 20th, 2004I got my MTA on Friday, it’s a Linksys RT41P2-AT. I first attached it to one of the ports off of my switch but noticed a loud hum in the background so I connected it in front of my linux box and exposed it to the world. An unfortunate side effect was that I once again changed IP addresses so it was off to xname.org to get my DNS changes in. The hum is still there.
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