So the wireless PCI card I have access to can be seen by the gateway software, and identified perfectly, but it won't actually _work_ with the standard install. Opinion on how to make it work differs wildly all over the net. Yay ( Read more... )

Gah, annoying people who insist on doing followup business over a desk or around a table rather than by email or even a quick phone call ( Read more... )

Further irritation with the so-called sixty hours of paperwork and checkboxes and form-completion which took me forty minutes. I completed it to the satisfaction of the computer systems, but it took the better part of an hour to wring out of the human cross-checker the fact that she didn't want to approve it because the next level of auditors ( Read more... )

Little Linux-alike internet gateway boxette is starting to complain of low disk space. Check it out. Ooo, down to under 2% free. Erk ( Read more... )

One movie ticket, drink and popcorn combo: $31 ( Read more... )

I realise that real estate agents are supposed to be salespeople first and foremost, and being at the top of that game means pushing for everything you can get, and that client and customer relationships are so short-term that they're basically fodder for commissions ( Read more... )

Went to the Thinkerama again tonight. Not much went on - some updates on what's happening with earlier projects, some minor tweak ideas for current stuff ( Read more... )

Frantic house cleaning for surprise photo session sprung on us yesterday. Not entirely happy about that. Also, apparently will have home open on Saturday. Nice to tell us less than 48 hours out ( Read more... )

Callback from the recruiter whose tail I tweaked. Basically tried to buy me off the job I applied for by offering "something more suitable". Uh, lady, if you had something more suitable in the first place, (a) would I not already have applied for it, and (b) should you not have offered it to me when I first signed up, or at any of the numerous ( Read more... )

Local blogging article: "Is your IT Infrastructure Pandemic Ready ( Read more... )