I hate dumb people.
Yesterday was decent. Though the rain jacket I bought at Walmart that claimed that it was a Large/Xlarge was mislabeled on it's tag. Either that or the company uses midgets for guages. Because I put it on me and it was a medium at best, it felt like a small. The sleeves didn't even come halfway down my forearms. But we laid a bunch of cable with trackhoes instead of the trencher because it was too muddy to get the trencher into where it was needed. It was a big push to get done do the guys who were boring the other half of the cables on this one run wouldn't be held up by us. Then the boring guys broke their boring pipe. They just shit a week and a half of their work down the drain. Now our part is done and they are sitting around trying to figure out what to do. heh
I managed to drive around last night after I got back and I found that instead of driving across to the other side of Utica to get to a Walmart I can get one about 4 miles from here on 5A.
Today I got my internet hooked up. The guy from Adelphia seemed smart at first. But I replaced my ethernet card and couldn't find the drivers. So he made a call to the office and got someone to bypass the initial startup screen and activated my modem. Then he told me that I can get online to install the drivers. I responded by telling him that if my ethernet card isn't recognized then I can't connect to get the drivers for it. So he tells me there's this trick to getting them without using Internet explorer and searching for them. He shows me that when you click to reinstall the missing drivers that there's this little command to make Windows check online for drivers. I knew right off what he was going to show me and I told him it won't work because I can't connect through an unrecognized card. He assures me that this works and clicks the OK button. Lo and behold it can't connect and find the drivers online. He's sitting there dumbfounded as I carefully explain to him how an internet connection works.
I got tired of looking for where I stashed the drivers and went out and bought a wireless G router. All over the box and the router itself are these stickers saying that you have to run the CD before you plug in the router. Of course I have no CDROM so I'm stuck. I got back online off of my neighbor's wireless and looked at the linksys site. They don't offer the install packs for online viewing. I said what the hell and pluged it in anyways. About 10 seconds goes by before I get a blip on my computer about an available network. I click on it and it's about a minute before the router is fully booted and I get the internet. Then it was just a simple manner of geting into the router the standard way as any router with the default administrator password and I changed all the settings I needed. I bet the CD had nothing more then that on it.
It's people like the Adelphia guy who force manufacturers to put on these stupid warning labels.
Now off to cob my fluxgate back to working condition.
I managed to drive around last night after I got back and I found that instead of driving across to the other side of Utica to get to a Walmart I can get one about 4 miles from here on 5A.
Today I got my internet hooked up. The guy from Adelphia seemed smart at first. But I replaced my ethernet card and couldn't find the drivers. So he made a call to the office and got someone to bypass the initial startup screen and activated my modem. Then he told me that I can get online to install the drivers. I responded by telling him that if my ethernet card isn't recognized then I can't connect to get the drivers for it. So he tells me there's this trick to getting them without using Internet explorer and searching for them. He shows me that when you click to reinstall the missing drivers that there's this little command to make Windows check online for drivers. I knew right off what he was going to show me and I told him it won't work because I can't connect through an unrecognized card. He assures me that this works and clicks the OK button. Lo and behold it can't connect and find the drivers online. He's sitting there dumbfounded as I carefully explain to him how an internet connection works.
I got tired of looking for where I stashed the drivers and went out and bought a wireless G router. All over the box and the router itself are these stickers saying that you have to run the CD before you plug in the router. Of course I have no CDROM so I'm stuck. I got back online off of my neighbor's wireless and looked at the linksys site. They don't offer the install packs for online viewing. I said what the hell and pluged it in anyways. About 10 seconds goes by before I get a blip on my computer about an available network. I click on it and it's about a minute before the router is fully booted and I get the internet. Then it was just a simple manner of geting into the router the standard way as any router with the default administrator password and I changed all the settings I needed. I bet the CD had nothing more then that on it.
It's people like the Adelphia guy who force manufacturers to put on these stupid warning labels.
Now off to cob my fluxgate back to working condition.