Archive for the 'wtf' Category
How can I get her to upgrade my RAM?
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009I need to check my mail more often
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Configuration management best practices
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008or… not
23381 Oct 16 13:32 lighttpd.conf 11085 Jun 18 2007 lighttpd.conf~ 11085 Jun 18 2007 lighttpd.conf.before-brion-broke-it 11250 Apr 11 2008 lighttpd.conf.before-mark-broke-it
Name too long
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Wikipedia doesn’t have all the answers?
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Wrong number
Friday, June 20th, 2008“Hello, may I speak to Donald (something) please?”
“Sorry, you have a wrong number.”
… pause …
“Oh, I really *do* have the wrong number. I thought I didn’t for some reason. Sorry!” *click*
o_O
Stop hitting yourself!
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Visual Voicemail fixed
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008One of the oh-so-cute features of the iPhone is visual voicemail, the “duh” feature of showing you an actual on-screen list of your voicemails instead of making you sit through voice prompts.
Bad: My iPhone mysteriously reverted to the classic “press 7 to delete” system when I changed rate plans a couple weeks ago… with voice mail disabled altogether so callers couldn’t leave messages until I noticed it and set up a new password.
A little Googling indicates this is a fairly common mix-up, and the only way to restore visual voicemail is to call AT&T tech support and have them fiddle with your account settings.
Good: AT&T tech support was able to fix the account settings so it works again… after a half hour on hold…
WTF: The AT&T tech swore that visual voicemail doesn’t work if you have a WiFi connection active. He had me disable WiFi while initially testing it, then when I asked him about it he told me outright that Visual Voicemail only works on the EDGE network and therefore you must turn off WiFi to check your voicemail.
This is demonstrably false; just to confirm I hadn’t been crazy for the couple of months my voicemail was working just fine, I turned WiFi back on, left myself a voicemail, and retrieved it just fine in all its visual glory.
It’s entirely possible that the voicemails still download over EDGE, but having the WiFi up doesn’t seem to interfere at all.
Now if they can just add a feature to route phone calls over WiFi, I could actually get calls through from my flat.









