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Nov. 30th, 2010 10:05 pmNaNo finished. Last minute contributions to the Office of Letters and Light pushed my total fund raising to $140, for which I thank everyone. It's a good cause.
The final installment of this month's draft is here. Obviously the novel is nowhere near complete. I'm guessing it will have to be closer to 150K or even 200K words for that. For the moment, though, I'm letting it rest. I have weaving to get done and the holidays are upon us.
Cobbled together a substitute for the dead proxy server at work by patching my Alphaserver into the subnet. Tested it with the library laptop to make sure it was doing what it should do. Took down the "service outage" signs. Within ten minutes someone was at the desk complaining that they couldn't connect. Tested again, and it was working.
Bought a wireless router for the house, a Lynksys WRT54G2, off EBay. I've resisted as long as I can, but I'm going to have to experiment a bit and figure out how it works. No, I will not be debugging anyone's PC at the library, though. I just want to be able to verify that our part of the system is working. Hence the Zipit that I mentioned a couple of days ago. It looks like a pretty flexible little test device, especially once you load up some useful utilities on an SD chip for it. Got that to working tonight. It comes up in a bash shell with all the basic networking utilities, including iwlist, nslookup, etc. when you tweak it properly. And more importantly, it weighs just a few ounces and fits in a pocket. Much preferable to lugging a laptop around the building.
Snow here tonight, but very little, so you'd hardly notice unless you went hunting for it. As much as an eighth of an inch accumulated in odd corners just after sunset.
Gary recovered from his software disaster. As I said it would be, it was an error on the part of the software developers. Even though his license had several months yet to run, they were counting from the date of a failed install that was never activated. At least they fixed it for him promptly, by sending him a registry hive to apply that patched the license parameters and reactivated the junky thing.
Oh, and we finally heard from the golden retriever group. They have proposed a dog for us. He looks perfect on paper and in photos. A big, gentle guy, apparently. He weighs in at 95 lbs. which is large for a golden, even in the hunting bloodline, but that's what Gary wants. He's called Red, and looks very much like old Tee, who was Gary's favorite dog ever. He's seven years old, and not pushy or barky, gets along with cats and lets other dogs push him around a bit. The only hitch is that he's in a foster home about 3 hours away from here. Even so, he sounds good enough that we're going to arrange to see him and, with any luck, bring him home. That will probably be enough Christmas for both of us.
The final installment of this month's draft is here. Obviously the novel is nowhere near complete. I'm guessing it will have to be closer to 150K or even 200K words for that. For the moment, though, I'm letting it rest. I have weaving to get done and the holidays are upon us.
Cobbled together a substitute for the dead proxy server at work by patching my Alphaserver into the subnet. Tested it with the library laptop to make sure it was doing what it should do. Took down the "service outage" signs. Within ten minutes someone was at the desk complaining that they couldn't connect. Tested again, and it was working.
Bought a wireless router for the house, a Lynksys WRT54G2, off EBay. I've resisted as long as I can, but I'm going to have to experiment a bit and figure out how it works. No, I will not be debugging anyone's PC at the library, though. I just want to be able to verify that our part of the system is working. Hence the Zipit that I mentioned a couple of days ago. It looks like a pretty flexible little test device, especially once you load up some useful utilities on an SD chip for it. Got that to working tonight. It comes up in a bash shell with all the basic networking utilities, including iwlist, nslookup, etc. when you tweak it properly. And more importantly, it weighs just a few ounces and fits in a pocket. Much preferable to lugging a laptop around the building.
Snow here tonight, but very little, so you'd hardly notice unless you went hunting for it. As much as an eighth of an inch accumulated in odd corners just after sunset.
Gary recovered from his software disaster. As I said it would be, it was an error on the part of the software developers. Even though his license had several months yet to run, they were counting from the date of a failed install that was never activated. At least they fixed it for him promptly, by sending him a registry hive to apply that patched the license parameters and reactivated the junky thing.
Oh, and we finally heard from the golden retriever group. They have proposed a dog for us. He looks perfect on paper and in photos. A big, gentle guy, apparently. He weighs in at 95 lbs. which is large for a golden, even in the hunting bloodline, but that's what Gary wants. He's called Red, and looks very much like old Tee, who was Gary's favorite dog ever. He's seven years old, and not pushy or barky, gets along with cats and lets other dogs push him around a bit. The only hitch is that he's in a foster home about 3 hours away from here. Even so, he sounds good enough that we're going to arrange to see him and, with any luck, bring him home. That will probably be enough Christmas for both of us.
