Data point...
May. 5th, 2011 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI finally moved off of dead center to find out what kept the Skype on my Verizon DROID phone from ringing when anyone phoned my Skype phone number. It took a while to sort through the horse puckey, but in the end, the general consensus I found was that the default Skype mobile app that comes as part of the phone doesn't support the feature.
The full-up version of Skype for Android supposedly did, so I installed the full-up version, attempted to kill off the mobile version (it can't be done, apparently, without rooting the phone, which I am not prepared to do), but having junior hang around apparently just wastes space (and probably some CPU cycles). Down where the rubber meets the road (or whatever the appropriate digital analog would be of that expression), my phone now rings when my Skype number is called. The ring tone is... different, but I can live with that, for now.
And if it matters, the guy who has called me twice with work says the quality of the call using Skype is much better than using the "other" number (which is my cell's Verizon phone number).
* * * It's been one heck of a day. I finished off the second of two items due tomorrow, and then spent some time trying to troubleshoot a problem with the Backblaze backup service that hasn't backed up any files since April 20. The site's tech support sends me exactly one email daily, the sum total of which (over the past few days) has not been successful in solving the problem. The current status is that the Backblaze software that talks to their server works, but the Backblaze software that figures out what to backup isn't doing its job.
The support guy has had me running around, turning off my firewall and antivirus, but even though I follow his instructions (letting him know, by the way, that neither service reports that any hiccups have occurred), he seems to be a little fixated on this being Not His Problem.
In my opinion, something happened during the time I was in New York, when connectivity came and went a few dozen times per hour, but I have no idea what. I really hope this problem gets solved, because in other respects the service has been pretty good in terms of backup speed and cost.
But what's made the day so much fun was finding out that I had not saved the first of the two translations due tomorrow before shutting down the machine (which I did because I had turned off so much stuff). Fortunately, all of the text had been saved in my Wordfast translation memory file—I haven't completely gone over to memoQ just yet—so it was only a matter of reprocessing the untranslated part of the file left on the disk, which gave me an opportunity to do a particularly effective review. (All in all, however, I don't think I'll use this technique for reviewing translations; it's too stressful.)
I note, with some surprise, that it's past 6 pm. Time to start slacking off, maybe even celebrate cinco de mayo.
Cheers...
The full-up version of Skype for Android supposedly did, so I installed the full-up version, attempted to kill off the mobile version (it can't be done, apparently, without rooting the phone, which I am not prepared to do), but having junior hang around apparently just wastes space (and probably some CPU cycles). Down where the rubber meets the road (or whatever the appropriate digital analog would be of that expression), my phone now rings when my Skype number is called. The ring tone is... different, but I can live with that, for now.
And if it matters, the guy who has called me twice with work says the quality of the call using Skype is much better than using the "other" number (which is my cell's Verizon phone number).
The support guy has had me running around, turning off my firewall and antivirus, but even though I follow his instructions (letting him know, by the way, that neither service reports that any hiccups have occurred), he seems to be a little fixated on this being Not His Problem.
In my opinion, something happened during the time I was in New York, when connectivity came and went a few dozen times per hour, but I have no idea what. I really hope this problem gets solved, because in other respects the service has been pretty good in terms of backup speed and cost.
But what's made the day so much fun was finding out that I had not saved the first of the two translations due tomorrow before shutting down the machine (which I did because I had turned off so much stuff). Fortunately, all of the text had been saved in my Wordfast translation memory file—I haven't completely gone over to memoQ just yet—so it was only a matter of reprocessing the untranslated part of the file left on the disk, which gave me an opportunity to do a particularly effective review. (All in all, however, I don't think I'll use this technique for reviewing translations; it's too stressful.)
I note, with some surprise, that it's past 6 pm. Time to start slacking off, maybe even celebrate cinco de mayo.
Cheers...
