Byung Kyu Park's Personal Website

I finally got Gizmo to work properly, that is, make outgoing phone calls from Gizmo.

In the past few months, the GNU/Linux Gizmo client kinda crapped out—I could receive incoming calls, but couldn’t make a successful outgoing call or do anything on the dialpad (in or out). It probably has to do with some protocol change—the GNU/Linux version hasn’t been updated since 2007.

So, I tried installing the Windows version under Wine, and it looks like it’s working better than the outdated GNU/Linux version, so I guess I’ll use this from now on (or at least until the Gizmo credit I have runs out).

P.S. I also got ALSA properly set up on my system with software mixing. Now I don’t have to periodically kill Firefox to kill its child Flash processes which are hogging the sound card.

As I’ve spent more time marking spam comments (7 so far, I think) than approving comments from real people (0 so far, at least on this website), I am installing reCAPTCHA. This will involve minimal inconvenience to anyone who actually wants to leave any comment on my website, while reducing my (currently not so great) effort in blocking spam comments. It also serves a good cause, as you can find out on reCAPTCHA website.

Also, I enabled Mailhide which is supposed to help with email harvesting issue. Not that it’s going to do much good for me at this point, since my email address byun...@berkeley.edu has been out there for a while.