To change the number of rings on your fido before it goes to voicemail dial this number:
**613436*30#
Then hit send/call.
The 30 at the end says that the voicemail will pick up after 30 seconds. Each ring happens after 5 seconds so that will result in 6 rings.
I’ve been using 3 different terminal emulation programs for Mac OS X. So far I haven’t found any that are perfect. Here are the three of them and their pros and cons:
Apple’s Included Terminal app: Pros: - Comes with Mac OS X (”free”) - Handles transparency Cons: - Doesn’t handle my linux character codes very well. backspace doesn’t work very well, some characters look different than they should, etc.
iTerm iterm.sourceforge.net: Pros: - Handles most character codes well - Transparency - Tabs (great, but now I use GNU screen windows so I don’t need it anymore) - Free, and open source Cons: - After a random amount of time, some characters are blank on the screen requring complete application restart.
GLterm http://www.pollet.net/GLterm/: Pros: - So far handles characters well “out of the box” Cons: - Shareware ($10) - No transparency since it isn’t a quartz app
So far, I think that iTerm is my favorite but I’ll play with GLterm for a bit longer. The default mac terminal could be made a lot better.
I upgraded the server from User Mode Linux to XEN Linux. The benefits so far are that it is much faster CPU and IO wise, and I’m going to look at it to see if it’s more efficient on memory usage also. While doing this I also upgraded to the 2.6.10 kernel instead of the old 2.4 kernel I use to be running.
Hopefully it’s as stable as UML was. The community mailing lists have been fairly responsive so far so I’m pretty happy with it.