IRVs aka Interactive Voice Responses, the annoying computers that answer your calls. I thought this was kinda interesting. Although I don’t call very many company, I usually press “0″ at the automated menu. Here’s the cheat sheet to bypass a lot of crap if you need to call some company.

[url=http://www.paulenglish.com/ivr/]IVR Cheat Sheet[/url]

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That’s right. I said it. Big whoop. Wanna fight about it?

The llama has had a stable uptime of over 12 hours for the first time in awhile with no sign of any 502 errors.

The main problem was the shell script that was being used to connect the llama to the unblocked internet. I created a script because my ISP blocks inbound traffic to my server. It worked, for the most part, but wasn’t pretty at all.

I’ve opted to start using something with a pretty GUI to ssh and keep the connect alive. First I tried using Internet Secure Tunneling from Han-soft and SSH Tunnel 4.0 from rs4u.com, then I found Bitvise’s Tunnelier. IST was ok, just freeware with a 30 Day trail period, which doesn’t seem free to me. SSH Tunnel was just plain confusing at first. After you setup what tunnel you wanna create, you have to reload that app to have the changes take place. Took me 20 minutes to realize that. Tunnelier is free and has everything I need and more. I advise anyone looking for an app that auto tunnels to check this one out.

On top of all that my voip router was in front of the house router. For a week or so it was dropping packets left and right. I could only sign on AIM for about 30 seconds after a router reboot. The internet was unbearably sporadic. I put my voip router back behind the other router and that seemed to stopped whatever was causing the problem.

We had put the voip router first thinking that the house traffic was taking precendence over the voip traffic because my calls would drop after a minute or so on the phone. Dragging out a 3 minute phone call in to about a 10 minute process. I found out it was the first gen cable modem Cox gave us [read:cheap bastards] had issues with the new lines they had laid.

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Here’s a clean way to create CSS’ed tooltips. Very nicely done. The even fade. I’m using them at work. This was a great idea but I would had thought of it sooner or later if I hadn’t found this today.

Basically, all you need to do is set the title attribute of an href. This script crawls across the page onload and assigns show/hide div dunctions to the onmouseover/onmouseout attributes of an href then removes the title attribue so the default browse tooltip doesn’t pop up when this CSS’ed version is up. It works on ‘a’s,’abbr’s and ‘acronym’s. Don’t worry, this doesn’t hijck your onload, it finds your onload and concats it’s startup function to it.

I was looking to hack/addon some scripts that read the dynamic Struts validation functions to initalize validation of a fields onblur. Same concept as to how Sweet Titles works.

I had to hack Sweet Titles little to not show a tooltip if title was null or empty. Plus I set the em’s display style to none, to not show the link in the tooltip.

Check this out, it might be useful. If not, it’s an easy way to add an extra feature to any project.

[url=http://www.dustindiaz.com/sweet-titles]click here for the website[/url]

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