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Sun, Dec 10, 2006

Home, and wireless problems

Posted at 8:48 pm MST to Technology

I'm home -- the trip took 36 hours door to door, and most of my stuff is still in the truck because it was dark when I arrived, and the "gravel" driveway is a sea of mud. I'll unload in the morning when I can see what I am doing.

Dinah is still upset at me. After she spent 36 hours in her kitty crate, I don't blame her a bit. The crate is actually a medium-sized dog crate, so she had room to move around a bit, and she had food and water, but the sanitary facilities were hardly what a civilized cat expects.

I'm having electronic annoyances bringing the house back online.

The satellite dish receiver for the TV was hung in some strange state, but came back after I cycled the main breaker for the living room. It seemed like a good idea to make sure the whole AV stack was cold-booted: the TV was complaining that it's clock wasn't set so there was evidently a power glitch some time while I was gone.

This computer's keyboard was refusing to type 'f' for a while, but started behaving better after I shook it hard. I should get one of those little computer vacuums and make sure there an no crumbs or cat hairs blocking things inside.

My router and DSL modem came back up after being unplugged and replugged in. However, I had disabled the wireless modem on this PC through the operating system a couple of weeks ago because it was interfering with the hardwired network connection, and now it won't re-enable. Very annoying. And ubuntu organizes its admin stuff differently from either SuSE or Fedora, so I haven't yet found out where I need to tweak it. And all of the live-disks are still out in the truck... I suspect I need to force it to go back to loading a module during powerup, and if one of the live disks will come up running wireless it will tell me which one.

Oh well, that's a project for tomorrow, after the truck is unloaded.

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