hyperswitching

YouTube on html5: thank god!

Sat, 15 May 2010 15:02:57 +0200

I’ve been running YouTube on html5 since a couple of weeks, and I must say: Thank god for html5 and the sudden push behind it.

Flash on mac (chrome / safari / firefox) is extremely instable and slow. I really thought of switching back to windows or maybe ubuntu, only because flash kept crashing and, even worse, bogging down my whole browser.

Now, with the new Chrome things are slightly better, but ever since I’ve switched on html5 on youtube , my browser is much more stable and responsive.

Chrome still has those pesky hanging chrome helper bugs though…

Asterisk outgoing DTMF tone detection

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:40:54 +0200

I run Elastix as my pbx, on a managed xen server. I have been experiencing problems with DTMF tones (for example when you call a helpdesk, and need to enter something). I use Polycom telephones. After some searching I found out that my problem was that I has set the “Asterisk Outbound Dial command options” to wW. This was to enable ondemand recording of calls. I’ve removed it, and I can now happily run through operator menus

Hopefully you won’t have to spend so much time on fixing this. I’d still like to know how to enable ondemand recording though. Also, I’d like to see a comparison between Elastix and a FreeSWITCH based solution such as sipx. My setup is 100% sip.

SMTP RFC: X-Notify & X-Notify-TTL ?

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:08:00 +0100

This is a question / rfc-initiator I posted on my old blog:

Does anybody know if there is an SMTP header that allows me to specify that a message is a notification-message, and one to set the expiration date / TTL?

A lot of emails I receive are notification messages (new message on facebook, build failed, etc). Some of these have an expiration-time (password reset-token should be redeemed in 4 hours).

It would be nice if the mailclient (gmail) could identify those messages, and handle them in a different way. For example:

Notification mails should be forwarded to my IM
Notification mails marked as urgent should be texted/sms’ed
E-mail with a TTL, should automatically be deleted/archived

What do you think?

Moved from blogger to tumblr

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:35:07 +0100

Today I moved from blogger to tumblr. The reason for this is simple: tumblr seems much nicer, more up to date, and makes it easier for me to customize my template.

Also, the twitter integration will help promote my posts. My old blog never really took off, and I guess writing (at least for me) requires some feedback from my readers.

If tumblr works good enough, I’ll even recommend it to my mother.