Jacek Jędrzejewski

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I'm alive!

Saturday, April 2, 2011 12:21:27 PM

work, private, embedded systems, university ...

It's been a long time since my last blog post. It is because I was damn busy during last 3 months - at university and at work. I had a lot of things to learn for exams, many projects to finish and two big social networking websites to make in symfony 1.4. Maybe I will write a blog post about some problems and solutions from these websites soon.

I'm also starting a quite big project for Embedded Systems subject at my university. With my lack of electronic knowledge and no skills in programming for STM32 microcontroller it will be really challenging to finish it up before the end of semester.

So I'm planning to write here about all successes and failures in that project.

So, what is that project? It's going to be an USB device which collects and sends data from/to wireless satellites. These satellites are general purpose, my plan is to make one sending data with measured temperature, another one with atmospheric pressure and the last one as a satellite receiver with LED simulating opening/closing a valve. So it's going to be a some kind of control system with wireless communication. Satellites will be powered from batteries, central device - from USB. That USB will be also used to send data to the computer where a desktop app will be used to present them and control.

I have a basic knowledge with microcontrollers. In previous semester I made a digital door lock on Atmel AVR µC, also for an university project but the new one is a lot of bigger and more difficult.

We will see!

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Where is eXtreme, where is new RMF RDS, where is everything

Sunday, October 24, 2010 10:07:06 AM

work, private, RMF RDS, invenzzia

Yes, it's been some time since I wrote here previous blog post. It is because I was very busy last weeks. I've made a number of websites so I had had very little time for my side projects like RMF RDS or Invenzzia. In fact, RMF RDS still don't have flash-based stream player (something f***ed up in the code basing on as3mp3streamplayer so I decided to write a code which just switches streams) and new Invenzzia website is still not online. I will try to finish and polish everything soon and I hope I will manage to do it.

Some bigger projects are on my horizon so I don't want to have conflicts.

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RegainYourID

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:18:18 AM

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Part Two of my .name email address story "FreeYourID, LoseYourID". In previous episode I decided to contact VeriSign on my own. I decided to use an online-chat with domains tech support.

Someone called Jasper explained me that even an email and a domain are connected as a one service, they have to be transfered separately. OVH had transfered only www domain, so my email stayed with FreeYourID and then with Key-Systems GmbH (which owns domaindiscount24.net). Jasper suggested contacting with DD24's support.

DD24 confirmed that email had been transfered to them from FYID. They said also OVH should be able to transfer it back. So I wrote to OVH but they simply replied: "Email transfer is impossible". I asked DD24 what to do. They checked everything and said my email had been deleted from their system and my registrar should be able to register it again.

Once again I wrote to OVH. At the beginning it was promising - I had to add jedrzejewski.name domain to my "manager" and then create "email forwarding". But it didn't work. What is more, it would require changing MX records in DNS for jedrzejewski.name which is impossible, not even for me but also for VeriSign.

Going back to DD24 and another mail sent to them. Reply:

The registration of a third level.name domain consists of two components: The domain first.last.name and the corresponding e-mail address first@last.name

Both components are registered together but in case of a transfer the new provider must start 2 transfers. One for the Domainname and one for the corresponding email address.

Unfortunately, your new provider transferred only the Domainname but not the corresponding E-mail address and so the registration of the e-mail address expired on 2010-07-26.

"2010-07-26" - yup, that would be my FYID account expiration date. They also suggested contacting VeriSign one more time.

So hello Mr. Jasper once again. We finally agreed OVH has to register my email address. And if they don't know how to do that, they have to contact VeriSign.

On July 18th another mail to OVH. Same day they replied "Email will be created today". WOW. So it IS possible. But why was it me to find out what is going on? However, yesterday I still didn't have my address. I asked OVH when was their "today" because after 5 days I still didn't have the email. "Our technician is contacting VeriSign." I suggested using online-chat with Jasper.

And 5 minutes later - "Email has just been created." And yes, it really works! Jeez, almost a month!

The moral of the story? Do it yourself.

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FreeYourID, LoseYourID

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 5:56:55 PM

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If you tried to reach me by my @.name email address within last 2 weeks, it must have ended unsuccessfully. Yup, something established to be my always-available-and-constant email address is temporarily unavailable. Well, I hope it is "temporarily" and not "permanently". How is that possible?

Let's go back in history to 2007. There was something called FreeYourID.com. This website offered first.last.name domain service for about $12 a year. Polish Zloty was that times very strong, so the domain was - for me - as cheap as beer is.

Bundled with the www third-level domain was email alias in first@last.name format. Just to make you sure - at that time it was impossible to register second-level domain like last.name - it was shared with all customers using last.name. It's been possible since 2009 and it's often cheaper than third-level domain.

At the beginning of 2009 summer I extended my domain for another year. Then I got stabbed. I received an email that FreeYourID.com service is suspended and all customers are obliged to change the registrar. Recommended registrar was domaindiscount24.net with the price of... 28€ / year. In Polish Zloty it was about 5 to 6 times more expensive than in FYID.

I expressed them my discontent and I was suggested French/Polish registrar - OVH. They offer third-level .name for low price comparing to dd24 (lil bit higher than it was in FYID) and I was ensured they will provide the same service (so WWW domain and e-mail redirection) as FYID. Being pressed by time I transfered my domain (and paid for another year) and everything was fine (except the fact they have hopeless "manager" - it works but it's stupid

) until 30th of July, when my e-mail alias stopped working.

For now I know NOTHING. Two dozens of emails were sent from me to OVH and vice versa.

At first they implied my DNS is wrongly configured, but nothing was changed there.
Then they said my domain is jacek.jedrzejewski.name, not jedrzejewski.name, so I can't have such alias. I explained them explicitly how it works, so my issue got redirected to technical support.
From them I "learned" that I can set a WWW redirection in my "manager" and yes, I can also set e-mail forwarding in other manager's panel. Which I - of course - cannot do, because I can only set @jacek.jedrzejewski.name redirections...

Everything is just fucked now...

Update
I've continued conversation with OVH since posting that blog post. Here's what I've got:

Dear Customer
you can not create this redirection simply beacaus the domaine "jedrzejewski.name" is not managed by OVH, I found no reference of this domain in our systems.

Yeah, I really know that, I mentioned that in my first e-mail. I told OVH that I will contact VeriSign (which is .name domain holder) on my own, but they should be to do that. (BTW. still got no answer from VeriSign).

OVH answered (in Polish so I will translate):