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Thu, 17 Jul 2008NOTICE: The views expressed on this Web site are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Out of the box, Os X 10.5 Leopard has a fantastic new voice called Alex.
Alex has wonderfuly diction and can say many words flawlessly.
Unfortunately, Alex can't say TELUS very well.
So, to get Alex to say the brand name I tried a few permutations and settled on this:
iMac:~ UserAcct$ say Tellaes
Hooked on phonics saves the day!
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Wed, 28 May 2008NOTICE: The views expressed on this Web site are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
Today when I walked into the office I discovered that over the weekend someone had turned our office into an island oasis.
I haven't discovered where the swim-up bar is yet but there is always hope.
Maybe next week they'll turn the office into an Irish pub!
At any rate, it beats my normal office decor hands down...
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When productivity is incentivized, employees figure out how to game the system.
I read that on "Worse Than Failure" this morning.
I have a lot to say about that but no time right now to say anything.
I'm not 100% sure this should actually be in the TELUS section of my blog.
Since I don't have a generic work section anymore I'll put it here until I have time to expand on the topic.
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Fri, 16 May 2008NOTICE: The views expressed on this Web site are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
This year, TELUS changed their code of ethics to allow blogging about non-proprietary content related to employment. This will open the door for me to post new and interesting insights into working in a telecommunications company on the threshhold of the new telephony world.
I will still have to be careful about what I post on my personal blog but at least now I can post with little fear of reprisal.
I haven't really decided what I will discuss here but I've set aside a category in index / technology / telecommunications / TELUS with a nice "standard disclaimer" that will free me to at least speak about some things.
Mostly, this will probably end up being some of the "neat" Asterisk hacks that I've discovered while working in our labs.
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008NOTICE: The views expressed on this Web site are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer.
I just picked up a new LG 8600 to replace my extremely aged Nokia 3595.
So far I am pretty impressed with the LG 8600 and how well the bluetooth side interacts with OS X.
It is easy to use BitPim to access and manipulate the filesystem via bluetooth and the native USB SD-card reader is a nice cross-platform data transfer tool.
The menu system is very easy to use and the flip is a decent size and is comfortable for placing calls.
Edit: Someone sent me an e-mail asking how I got into my LG.
Here are some basic instructions...
I did this all under 10.5 but the procedure should be pretty similar for 10.4.
First, I turned on bluetooth on my mpb and the phone.
Then I made the phone discoverable and found it with the mbp. They get detected as modems and obex objects.
I think I also made the mbp discoverable and found it with the phone, but I can't remember. Pretty sure this is yes and also pointless because obex is locked out.
Then, using BitPim 1.0.6.20080304-Test I detected the phone (takes forever at first) and it failed but asked if I wanted to use the wizard, so I did.
The wizard has a spinbox menu with selections and I picked the LG VX8600 on a /dev/cu.LGVX8600-blahblah-btdiag1 port.
The phone beeps and looks like someone is dialling numbers and then the filesystem should be available.
Select the root and back up the entire tree before going further because it is very easy to break things while hacking.
Hopefully this is helpful. It has been a whle since I did the hacking of my phone.
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