Tim Hardy

What the lights on a modem mean:

TR Terminal Ready Illuminated when terminal software is activated
HS High Speed Illuminated during K56flex connections (32.000 to 56.000 bps)
CD Carrier Detect The modem is connected with another modem.
AA Auto Answer The modem is ready to answer incoming calls automatically.
OH Off Hook The modem has picked up the phone line, just like taking your phone handset “off hook.”
SD Send Data Flashes as data are sent.
RD Receive Data Flashes as data are received.
PWR Power The modem is receiving power.

One day I’ll learn pine and I’m sure I’ll love it but for now I’m hooked on mutt.

Getting mutt to use exim4 for delivery is as simple as adding set sendmail="/usr/sbin/exim4" to your ~/.muttrc. Getting exim4 working as a smarthost to authenticate over port 465 is far harder.

The solution is to use a tunnel as outlined in this excellent post: exim4 with ssmtp on Debian.

Before finding this answer, I also discovered a very clear post on testing an smtp auth connection here and a useful tutorial on setting up and testing exim, both of which may be helpful to other people.

Links for October 21st through October 25th:

• Exclusive: my golden secret about property prices | Matthew Parris: My Week - Times Online - “The number of property owners in Britain now in the position to trade down or divest themselves of real estate without much trouble is so significant that mark my words a plateau will bring a tumble. Our economy cannot float for ever on bidding up the price of each other’s houses.
• Firebug - Web Development Evolved - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.
• Simply Blog Archive How to: Install and play Quake on your Symbian Phone! - How to install and play Quake on your mobile. I had Doom on my N70 and I’m looking forward to putting Quake on my N95
• N95 Best Tips and Tricks: Best Tips and tricks for Nokia N95 - Excellent advice on getting the most out of an N95 including many links to useful tools and utilities.
• Python Framework for Symbian Series 60 phones - Very useful info
• GeeXboX uShare UPnP A/V Media Server HomePage - uShare is a UPnP ™ A/V & DLNA Media Server. It implements the server component that provides UPnP media devices with information on available multimedia files. uShare uses the built-in http server of libupnp to stream the files to clients. GeeXboX uSha
• Getting started - WidSets Developer Site - Getting Started with WidSets Widget Development
• Nokia N95 blog - Essential add-ons for S60 - 1. Nokia add-on stuff - Smart2go a.k.a. Nokia Maps - Nokia Podcasting - Nokia Mobile Search (get the latest version) - WidSets - Barcode Reader (not that useful yet, but loads of potential) - Download! Client a
• Nokia Podcasting - Download podcasts direct to your phone

Links for October 13th through October 20th:

• Embedded.com - How video compression works - How video compression works BDTI explains how video codecs like MPEG-4 and H.264 work, and how they differ from one another. It also explains the demands codecs make on processors
• Facebook | Programming Puzzles - I’m not looking for a job - and must be one of the few people on the planet not to have a Facebook account - but these porgramming puzzles look like fun.
• Hacker. Dropout. CEO. - Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook - Social Networking - Good profile of Mark Zuckerberg
• Mike Davidson - How to Snatch an Expiring Domain - Well written account of how to grab an expiring domain
• ii.com · Power Pine: Getting the Most Out of Unix-, Mac- & PC-Pine by Nancy McGough - Advice on setting up pine
• Battle Tanks - “Battle Tanks is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. It has original cartoon-like graphics and cool music, it’s fun and dynamic, it has several network modes”
• ONLamp.com — An Introduction to Erlang - An Introduction to Erlang
• Speaking UNIX, Part 13: Ten more command-line concoctions - Nice command line tips - including the use of tac - like cat, but in reverse!
• Extract and decompile .chm file to view as html file under Linux - arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML Help, and is also known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on python-chm binding to chmlib from GnoCHM project.