A cricket bat!
Twelve years, and four psychiatrists!
Four?
I kept biting them!
Why?
They said you weren't real.

Ahem

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Network Equipment Catfight

My D-Link DSL-302G hates my Netgear RO-318. My Netgear RO-318 is not even speaking to my D-Link DSL-302G.

Which means that right now I only have internet access from this one PC. The pain! The pain!

I've re-routed my pixymisa.net emails to the server at work, but I may have lost a few somewhere. So if you emailed me in the last few days and haven't heard back, it's not that I'm cross with you, it's just that your message got eaten by mice.

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Back From The Mostly Dead

I'm back.

Look at me, all blogging from home and stuff. This Internet thingy is so cool!

I'll be ordering my new computers tomorrow. Yes, computers. As in, two of. Thanks to all who voted in my poll and/or left comments: I've decided to go for option number 6 and get one of each. That is, a P4 2.6 and an Athlon XP 2800+. I'll then do an extensive review of both systems to find out which one is shinier, and post the details here.

Zoom zoom.

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Just As I Thought

My modem didn't love me anymore.

I installed the helpful D-Link DSL-300 Configuration Utility to see what was going on. When asked to detect my modem, the helpful D-Link DSL-300 Configuration Utility helpfully said:

What modem?

Important note: The D-Link DSL-300 DSL Modem does not have a factory reset feature. So if you screw it up, you've screwed it up permanently. (Also note: The manual for the D-Link DSL-300 DSL Modem is useless.)

I don't know if the D-Link DSL-302G is really any better, except for two points:

1. It does have a factory reset feature.
2. I haven't screwed it up yet.

Yay.

Now I just have to get it to talk to my router. Router: What modem?

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Can't Think Of Anything

So I'll answer some questions from CheddarX:

1. What good did you do in the world today?

I explained the difference between the 8KNXP and the 8PENXP, thus increasing the sum total of human knowledge.

That's about it, really. Today sucked.

2. What fashion trend are you glad that's gone away? Or what trend are you waiting to go away?

I'm waiting for flares to go away. Or maybe to come back. I'm not sure.

3. What's your greatest sports moment, your own or one you've witnessed?

...

Do WWE bikini contests count as "sports moments"?

4. Who would you nominate for the most annoying person award?

This guy I know.

5. What do you do to get yourself ready to write? Either blogging or other writing? (I.e. I'm a whiskey drinker and like to have a tumbler to sip from when I write fiction).

Find something to write with. A working computer. A pen and a piece of paper. Crayon and a blank wall. Charcoal on a light-coloured carpet.

6. Mac or PC or Linux? Why? (I'm curious about this because it seems like the majority of bloggers I know are Mac folks but maybe I'm just wishfully thinking).

Tandy Colour Computer, Amiga 1000 or SGI O2. Unified memory architecture, baby!

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And The Winner Is

In the category Most Bizarre Sentence Containing Both A Reference To The Vice-President And The Word Dominatrix:

Dick Cheney thought the war could showcase his transformation of America into a dominatrix superpower.

Blink.

You mean, like, America in stiletto heels and fishnet stockings and a corset, bearing a whip? Talk about big-concept.

(Maureen Dowd in the NYT.)

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Promises

I promise that I will get back to blogging about things other than my dead and dying computers as soon as I have computers that are not dead and dying.

Meanwhile, I think I killed my DSL modem. I tweaked my MTU, and now it doesn't love me anymore.

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Good News, Poo News

Good news: I've finished recovering my files, all 380,000 of them. I'm just triple-checking before I reformat the drive and copy everything back.

Poo news: My ADSL is still down. Telstra* now say that it may be fixed by mid-day today.

* Spit.

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Meh

Telstra "fixed" their DSL network at 10:30 this morning and closed the fault. Then reopened it when a reported 15%* of users turned out to be still having problems. This was fixed at 1:30 this afternoon... That is, "fixed" as in "not fixed". Currently there are "some services" still having problems and there is no ETA on fixing those.

As someone once said:

Telstra must die. Die, die, die, die.

So if you don't hear from me for a while, it's because I'm "off line". I wonder what that will be like...

* 15%: A Telstra term used in reporting faults, meaning "Some customers are still able to use the services we are overcharging them for."

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The Curse of the Pixies

I was typing up a fascinating new post and my X session crashed. Ploink. All gone.

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