A few months ago, I noticed my sch-i500 was starting to exhibit some odd behavior. The screen would randomly fill up with colored lines, or refuse to light up. The digitizer was still accepting input (ie I could unlock the phone by drawing the correct pattern on the messed up display), but the only way to get the display back was (shouldn’t be a surprise to the readers of this blog) tapping the phone on a hard surface.

So I filed a claim with squaretrade and sent my phone of to be repaired. Getting the claim generated was easy, and they provided pre paid next day air to and from the hardware repair depot they deal with in LA.

However, when I got my phone back, as soon as I turned it on, the screen immediately started to show the same ugly lines. They look like what you used to get on an old CRT monitor when the VGA connector on a PC was loose.

Curious, and aggravated, I took apart the phone and made sure the ribbon connector for the display/digitizer was correctly seated, to no avail.

I have noticed the problem is worse after the phone has been in my pocket for a while, perhaps its over heating.

Anyway, since I now voided the warranty, I installed cyanogen 7.1 on my fascinate and it has completely changed my phone experience for the better. Since I have 5 more months since my contract is up with verizon with a phone whose display comes and goes, I might as well enjoy a well put together rom, free of Verizon bloat and with the latest version on android.

Today I was able to attend the first annual Bonassera family reunion. It was held at the parish cemetery of Tosca, which is a small “frazione” of a town called Varsi, in the province of Parma, Italy. It is a small simple cemetery with a beautiful view of an appenine mountainside for its inhabitants, but an arduous steep climb up a narrow road for it’s visitors.

The reunion was preceded by a solemn funeral mass for the graveyards newest arrival, my uncle Guido. He was injured in an accident and broke his back.

But that was almost 30 years ago. He went on to do more in the last 30 years than most people do their whole lives, without the aid of a pesky working lower body.

He joined his parents, Fortunato and Domenica, and my father Quirino, who have been residents there for quite a long time.

His two sisters Pierina and Lina were not able to attend as it’s hard for them to get away from their respective graveyards.

I hope wherever they may be they can all be together and comfort each other, there are a few people left here that miss their company.

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Paula Deen’s English Peas

UPDATE:  Now that I think about it I don’t believe it is vibrating as strong as it used to.

UPDATE2:  I made a post to the Apple support forums saying that I fixed the issue by giving the phone a whack, but they deleted the post claiming it was bad advice.  I can see their point.

UPDATE3: I posted this 3 years ago, and it is the top source of visits to this blog. Bumping this to the first page since many people found it useful.

On my home linux box:

#!/bin/bash

MYIP=$(dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com)

ssh user@www.example.com "echo $MYIP > /tmp/dynhost.ip"

And on the server:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $date=`date +%s`;

my $oldip=`dig +short dynhost.example.com`;
my $newip=`cat /tmp/dynhost.ip`;

chomp $date;

if ( $oldip != $newip) {
        my @template=`cat /etc/bind/pri/zone.template`;
        open (ZONEFILE, '>/etc/bind/pri/example.com.zone') or die "Couldn't open file for write";
        foreach my $line (@template) {
                $line =~ s/SERIAL/$date/g;
                $line =~ s/NEWIP/$newip/g;
                print ZONEFILE $line or die;
        }
        close (ZONEFILE);
}

You’ll have to setup a template zone file to run the regex against.

Now there are probably better ways to do it but thats what I came up with quickly. Of course you need ssh keys setup, and configure pdns to rescan the zone file every once in a while. Now I’ll add these to cron and see if it actually works.

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Almost.

Dhcp6? Router autodiscovery? 6to4?? bleh, I think the world will move back to appletalk before adopting this new setup.