Fnord.

In the main apps review page I said that the OS4 apps had category support. True, they do. However, after using it for quite I while, I have to say that they blow compared to PalmOS.

Much harder to find/use/create. One of the virtues of the palm was the easy of switching categories, and the blackberry lacks this. They’re effectively useless.

I know this has been posted to every Apple blog on the net, but in case you missed it already: Apple has released a small app that sets the TCP window parameters higher.

Or, in plain English, it makes broadband connections faster.

It’s free. It’s small. You can uninstall it.

I’ve installed it, but need to test and see what the results are. From results like this you can see that TCP windows are critical:

(Image borrowed from http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/)

Gotta love Apple sometimes.

Lots and lots of pictures.

Personally, I think the Samurai, marinemaster and (of course) SBDB001 are the nicest looking.

This is very cool. Archive.org has public-domain film from the legendary Hamilton company, an introductory film on “How a Watch Works.” Black and white, download or streamable.

Very cool.

http://www.archive.org/details/HowaWatc1949

Also on the same site, another Hamilton film on ‘What makes a fine watch fine’ -
http://www.archive.org/details/WhatMake1947

Hmm, missed the oh-so-subtle ‘notify subscribers’ dropdown it added. Hmm.

UPDATE: Notify is now the default. Cool.

Preferably one of these. $400, silent, 1U, with Compact Flash for hard drives. It’d make a killer box for OpenBSD. I really miss having pf and level-2 firewalling in place.

Nice for VoIP, too, since you can use pf/altq to prioritize your VoIP traffic as well. Cool.

I just added SIP and IAX2 records for phfactor.net to UltraDNS, so in theory you can SIP-dial pfh at phfactor.net and it’ll work…

Got the idea from slacker, and found the details on the wonderful VoIP wiki.

Looks like we’ll convert over to Broadvoice VoIP for all phone - been using their BYOB $6/month plan and a cheap Grandstream 102 with good results. Noticed that Wired Test top-rated them (Broadvoice, that is) and am now shopping for a good Wi-Fi VoIP phone, suggestions welcome!

I’ve added the wordpress email plugin (on the sidebar), so you can sign up for an email every time a post is added. If you’re not using RSS yet, then this might be very useful. Enjoy!

UPDATE: It’s still broken.

UPDATE: Fixed! Try it.

So the full error I get is
907 Invalid JAR
HTTP Error 406: Not acceptable.

Odd. The http://mini.opera.com/mnt tester is OK, so this may be an OS4 issue.

OpenSourceMac, a nice list of OSS software. I found some stuff I hadn’t seen before, and the page layout is much better than mine.