Horas and konnichiwa untuk semua


iSync plugins
April 30, 2008, 1:30 pm
Filed under: notes/Cellular phones

iSync is great, except for very short list of supported phones.
Here are softwares to expand support, or hint to make own plugins:

nova media
OnSync
HOWTO: Write iSync Phone Plugins
DIY iSync™ Phone Plugin



誰かが負担しないといけない
April 30, 2008, 9:16 am
Filed under: jp/General

どこかの政治家がテレビで高齢者の医療費負担増についてこう言った。

「誰かが負担しなければならない」

日本語って主語も目的語もないのに文として成り立つのは面白い。上記の文では目的語がないので、文脈から分かるといわれるが、話し手が本当に考えている目的語は何なのかは話し手にしか分からない。特に政治家にとって曖昧であった方があとでそのとき意図したい説明がつく。

通常考えると「誰かが負担しなければならない」は高齢化している日本では本当にその通り。しかし、毎日のように報道される社会保険庁のずさんな管理や、天下りの高額給料及び退職金、役所の人間が盗んだ住民の保険金、ハコモノに使われる膨大な資金を考えると、もしかして上記の言葉の話し手はこのことを言いたかったのではないか。

「誰かが何百億円や何兆円の無駄遣いや消えたお金を負担しなければならない」

その誰かは国民であり、そして今回は高齢者である。まさに弱肉強食だ。



Indonesia makin bodoh
April 6, 2008, 8:53 pm
Filed under: id/General

Ini dari milis:

Para Pelanggan Yth.

Sehubungan dengan Surat Menteri Kominfo Nomor: 84/M.KOMINFO/04/08 tanggal
2 April 2008 Perihal: Pemblokiran Situs dan Blog Yang Memuat Film Fitna,
maka situs berikut ini untuk sementara kami tutup sampai pemberitahuan
lebih lanjut :

1. Youtube
2. MySpace
3. Metacafe
4. Multiply
5. Rapid-share

Jika ini benar, menyedihkan sekali. Harap2 Indonesia makin pintar dengan usaha2 meningkatkan bandwidth serta jenis akses last on mile, eh malah makin bodoh. Apakah YouTube, misalnya, situs porno? situs komunis? situs anti agama tertentu? Jika iya, silahkan dilarang, tapi tidak kan? Hanya karena ada konten yang tidak cocok mengapa seluruh site diblok? Ini saja merupakan tindakan bodoh, tapi kondisi akan menjadi lebih parah jika ini dibiarkan, sebab pemerintah akan bebas memblok situs2 yang dia rasa tidak cocok, sama seperti Soeharto menutup Tempo dan media masa lainnya dijaman orde baru.



PDB, PRC formats
April 2, 2008, 9:45 am
Filed under: notes/Cellular phones

Palm’s PDB and PRC formats are not only used by Palm, butl also by e-book reader on Symbian and even desktop PC. Here are some description on its format:

NS Basic/Palm PDB File Structure
http://www.nsbasic.com/palm/info/technotes/TN02a.htm
The PRC Format

http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/pilot/prc-format.html

Other related resources:
Palm emulator on Mac
BookDesigner
– A tool to create PDB/PRC file?



Browse Nokia 6680’s files over BT on Mac
April 1, 2008, 8:04 pm
Filed under: notes/Cellular phones

Mac could not browse Nokia 6680’s (or, it seems, any Nokia’s S60 device) files over BT on Mac. The problem is not on Mac side, but on Nokia side. Nokia has crippled the device.

Here is how to make it work:

OBEX File Transfer on Series 60, with Bluetooth File Exchange on OS X

(See full article at http://www.martin.st/software/s60-obexftp/)

Download these softwares:
SdpBrowser
SDP Editor (for Series 60 1st and 2nd edition)

Usage:

Using SdpBrowser, select Get PC Suite info in the Device menu, select the phone and click browse. If everything works as it should, it gives the SDP record handle of the OBEX FTP record and the RFCOMM channel of the PC Suite service.

Then start SDP Editor on the phone, choose Update channel in the menu, and enter the handle and RFCOMM channel given by SdpBrowser. Then, Bluetooth File Exchange should be able to browse the files on the phone.

The handle and channel shouldn’t change as long as you don’t install/remove any service on the phone, so in general you’ll only need to rerun the application on the phone with the last, working values.

If it doesn’t give all the necessary information, you can try to read it manually from the raw SDP records. Select Browse in the Device menu, and select the phone. Look for a record with the text “OBEX File Transfer”, and look for the number on the row starting with “0:” in this record (e.g. “0: 0x10006”). That’s the record handle (in hexadecimal). Also look for a record with the text “Nokia OBEX PC Suite Services”. That record should have a row like “4: { { <0100> } }, { { <0003> }, { 0xc } }, { { <0008> } }”. Here 0xc, that is 12, is the RFCOMM channel.