This is a bugfix release for the schedule errors in 2.9.1, which was released yesterday.

Oh 2.9.1, we hardly knew yee.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: StationStops 2.9.2 Released, fixes Schedule Bugs

Coincidentally, the few trains I checked to make sure the data file loaded
correctly were correct, but many others were not.

I am just taking time to acknowledge support emails, website, twitter
followers, and help page, and am starting work on the fix immediately.

Thanks for you patience – in the meantime, use the online MTA scheduling
app, which is linked to on the ‘links’ tab, for accurate scheduling
information.

Thanks
Chris

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Errors in StationStops Schedule 2.9.1

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: StationStops v.2.9.1 Released To iTunes Store, Reflects Return to Normal Winter Schedule

I love when Amazon gets Apple stuff. Lower price, $3.99 overnight via Prime, they always tell you exactly what they have in stock, and no sales tax to most states.

Get it now.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Apple iPad Now On Sale at Amazon!

If I can stereotype for a moment – I admire Indian people – and enjoy their food.

I’ve spent some time working with Indian engineers in the tech industry, and they are some of the most hardworking, good-natured, and polite people I know, with strong family values.

Like the French, Indian culture holds some qualities which America is relatively lacking in. Unlike the French (or Americans, for that matter), they would never be so rude as to point it out.

Since several of the Indian engineers I worked with were vegetarian, group lunches would more often than not wind up at an Indian Buffet, of which there are several in Silicon Valley. Fine with me. Set me up with some Vindaloo and mango soft-serve ice cream and I’m a happy camper.

Unfortunately, I have probably driven by ‘Chili Chicken‘ on Summer St. in Stamford several times without it ever occurring to me that it might be an Indian restaurant. Their sign doesn’t offer any clues as to this either. I mean, just look at it – how would anyone ever guess that this is anything but a very American restaurant?

It looks like some sort of third-tier chain that specializes in Chili made from Chicken. Seriously, who wants Chicken Chili? No one! That’s something you eat because you’re watching your weight, or there is a mad cow outbreak, or you pulled the wrong meat out of the freezer to defrost before leaving for work.

So, it’s Indian food – with an American logo – with clues that it serves American dishes of marginal interest at best.

Not good.

But that’s not half of Chili Chicken‘s marketing dilemma. You see, they are a Indian-Chinese restaurant – which for me, is twice as intriguing, if even less knowable.

Chili Chicken is named after their signature dish. Unfortunately, they dropped the ‘Hakka‘ from the front of the dish’s name – the only clue whatsoever as to its nature. I figured since they were so proud of this dish they were willing to cloak their restaurant’s identity in it, I had to at least try it.

Besides being far less American on the inside than their awning implies, Chili Chicken is also far more tasteful, even calming – befitting any good Indian restaurant. The staff was Indian, and only reinforced my stereotype of Indian hospitality and polite, friendly, demeanor.

The Chili Chicken arrived promptly with a generous portion of perfectly cooked Jasmine rice to bed it on. I would describe it as an better-than-average sesame chicken – but with the promised ‘Indian Twist‘ coming from the heat. It’s a nice, slow burn that builds over time rather than jolts at first bite. I cooled it off with a sweet Mango Lasse. Yum.

My only regret after eating at Chili Chicken was not having come with more people and dined family style so I could have sampled more of their menu, which is full of all kinds of interesting Chinese and Indian based-dishes that promised a little something special.

I will definitely be back again to check out more of what’s to offer at Chili Chicken, and glad to now be amongst the locals who know what really goes on under the misleading awning at Chili Chicken.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: Chili Chicken Restaurant – Good Indian-Chinese Food, Unfortunate Name

As primarily a unix developer who prefers running Windows and MacOS on the desktop, I’ve relied on powerful terminal clients for years to get my job done. On Windows, that client has always been SecureCRT. Ever since the day I installed it, it has been the most powerful, usable, and well-supported terminal client I have used on any platform.

Moving to Terminal in MacOS X was hard. Only recently have I dug into the nuts and bolts of Terminal configuration, including .term and .command files, to do things like ‘open 5 connections to 5 different servers and login’, which is something anyone who manages server farms needs to do frequently. In SecureCRT, there is no editing configuration files to do this – the interface is designed to make all of this very easily accessible and configurable.

Probably the worst thing about Terminal is that it is good enough that there doesn’t seem to be much interest in commercial-grade third-party remote terminal development for MacOS.

So, when I did switch to Mac, it wasn’t long before I begged VanDyke to port to MacOS via their support email – which is probably the most reliable, informed, and expedient support service of any software I have ever owned.

I didn’t know the status of any port until today, when I noticed it had already been launched into beta. It looks and works just like the Windows version, which is fine with me. In just minutes I had configurations for all my servers up and running which took me an afternoon in Terminal – and it works better to boot.

One thing I did notice as missing was a vt100 font which has always been included in the Windows version. It is my favorite terminal font, but doesn’t seem to be included in the MacOS version. Besides the default font that used to ship with Konsole (Linux), it is the only terminal font I like using.

There is no question in my mind that it will be a huge boost to my productivity under MacOS – if you ssh alot I recommend trying it out.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: SecureCRT for MacOS Beta Released!

Just a note though – I didn’t have this much trouble updating my iPhone to iOS 4, and a lot of people seem to have been able to accomplish it in 15 minutes. I think it has a lot to do with what your sync settings are in iTunes and how often you sync (both of us rarely sync).

Also – my Sprint EVO had a firmware update when I first bought it. I just accepted a notification sent to my phone and it updated over the air in a few minutes.

1. Find out on a blog or tweet than an update is available.
2. Wait until you get home from work and start the process so it can run overnight when you don’t need your cellphone.
3. Bring your iPhone to your computer (the one with the iTunes library your iPhone is synced to)
4. Find proprietary USB cable (hint: its probably on your desk at work or in your car)
5. Make sure your laptop is plugged into an AC adapter so it doesn’t run out of power in the middle of the firmware update and brick your phone.
6. Run software update and update iTunes to new version
7. Wait for iTunes to ‘update your media library’
8. Connect your phone to your laptop with the proprietary USB cable
9. Wait for iTunes to discover your iPhone is connected
10. Wait for iTunes to do automatic syncing
11. Click on your iPhone icon, navigate to ‘summary’ page on iTunes
12. Select ‘Check for Update’
13. Select update
14. Update tells you you have to transfer all of your purchases to the computer first, as its going to wipe all your data from your phone.
15. Wait while a few gigs of apps, and music, and video get transferred back to your computer. (If you run out of disk space on your SSD stop here and ‘figure something out’)
16. Run update
17. Update will start downloading – eta 3 hours over 25 Mbps FIOS.
18. 60% through download, download will fail due to an ‘unexpected error’
19. For some reason you have been signed out of your iTunes account, dialog requests that you log back in.
20. Log back in
21. Attempt to update iPhone again
22. Download does not resume but starts over from the beginning, but for some reason now only takes 5 minutes instead of 3 hours.
23. iTunes now starts … to backup your entire iPhone. No ETA but progress bar seems to infer ‘forever’
24. Go to sleep
25. Wake up to find out your laptop ALSO went to sleep – during your backup – which did not complete.
26. Go to work
27. Come home
28. Configure your laptop not to go to sleep
29. Start backup over again
30. Go to sleep
31. Wake up. If something went wrong, go to work, repeat as necessary.

I will update this procedure when I start it over tonight.

Originally appeared on: StationStops - Metro-North Train Schedules and NYC Commuting Blog See the original post here: iPhone iOS 4 Update Procedure (so far)