Network cables tend to work so much better if both ends of the cable are attached to something.

*ahem*

No post yesterday - posting in the evenings wasn't working so well for me, so I've swapped back to morning updates. After, I have to confess, wrestling with the idea of not updating at all. But I think this place has too strong a hold on me for that ( Read more... )

That's 'cool' as in 'distinctly chilly', rather than 'unspeakably hip ( Read more... )

Was up at ex's farm last night, to transfer the contents of the old PC's hard drive to the new one. Having pondered the situation, I'd decided that the safest option was to take the hard drive out of the old PC and put it into a 3½" USB enclosure, to make a mobile hard disk, rather than opening up the brand new PC and inserting it as a slave ( Read more... )

The weather's evidently gearing itself up for the Bank Holiday ;-)

Was up at the farm last night, setting up ex's new PC - it's a Dell machine, and despite warnings from dun_hawk that his one's noisy, I have to say that ex's machine is stunningly quiet. I actually had to check that the power light was on. *envies ( Read more... )

Tefkas Towers was offline last night - this is somewhat frustrating, because I'm pretty certain that the replacement modem I bought at the weekend is at fault Not so! See ETA, below! So today's task is to download the latest drivers from the web, uninstall and reinstall the modem tonight to see if that fixes it. If not, I could revert to the router ( Read more... )

In Oz's absence, I'm back on the low-power PC, running the pared down version of Windows CE. I'd forgotten how peaceful it was having a silent desktop...

...also, I was incredibly surprised to discover that GTalk works on it! This is via the gMail interface, where you get the little chat windows in your Inbox. So that's pretty cool - this device ( Read more... )

Hmmm... it would seem that Oz is unwell. Flakiness has now extended to Fedora Core 3, which previously ran perfectly reliably, and leads me to wonder if previous intermittent errors were actually the warning signals of the hardware dying rather than, as I initially assumed, software problems ( Read more... )

...6 minutes, in fact, to log into the work PC, which is exceptionally slow. This may not bode well for the day...

T-Mobile haven't yet swapped my Virgin number to their phone - it was supposed to happen 'in the early morning', but the switch hasn't taken effect yet. Hence I've got the two phones side by side on the desk (in silent mode ( Read more... )

Quick update, as I'm on s00's PC upstairs, rather than Oz downstairs. The reason for this is that that Mali dog chewed through the phone cable last night, so Oz is currently offline until I swap systems around 'n stuff. Although I think I'd prefer to keep the PC downstairs, so that realistically means a new phone cable. Ah well.

In other news, ms_katonic is ( Read more... )