Now I just have to stop kicking the cable from the DSL router into the linux gw/router such that it decides to lose link. That or get flyingsnow to make a new, more robust, cable for this purpose. Strange I've only been doing this today though, must have knocked the cable about when plugging it to and fro to test things using Windows (to eliminate OS as ( Read more... )

Ever since getting the DSL up on the 25th we'd been having this weird problem where some sites, and only some sites, and always those some sites, wouldn't work properly. Symptom was they'd ping fine, seemingly traceroute fine (lots of last hops not working, but looked normal checking from other machines), yet TCP connections, such as for HTTP, ( Read more... )

Did I mention that the other day the BT line went dead for a while? Yes.

Did I mention I thought it was probably a BT engineer checking the line for DSL ? Maybe.

Did I mention actually trying to see if the DSL was up ?

NO! So, chatting with a friend online today I mentioned this, and she said her Zen DSL had been active 7 days before the ( Read more... )

...is that LJ can no longer work out my correct local time for posts ( Read more... )

Well, woo, I actually got out of bed 10 minutes BEFORE the alarm was set to go off, i.e. around 09:50. Should be nicely on schedule for that 08:00 start tomorrow ( Read more... )

I figured why my shift-2 was coming out as @ not ", all of a sudden it seems Firefox was taking notice of my locale and I had a US one only, got a UK one now \o/. Actually more or less figured this out earlier but took this long to be happy with closing firefox to activate the new locale :P ( Read more... )

Waited until around 10am for shops to be open. The local one wasn't, so on the bus to the City Centre I go. Get off right by Maplins, which I'd forgotten existed there, but had to wait 25 mins for them to open (shops in the UK are only allowed 6 hours of opening on Sundays, most do 10:00 to 16:00, this Maplins does 11:00 to 17:00 instead). So, ( Read more... )

So tonight I finally get around to booting into windows 98 to install that free anti-virus (I don't do email in windows, and rarely even web browse so on the whole I'm not at high risk of viruses) and try out a few more game demos ( Read more... )