Cleaning the desktop
Oct. 6th, 2007 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoWell, more like avoiding cleaning it. See, my desk at home is always covered with "stuff". That's because I let things pile up on the dining room table until Gary decides to have people over and then, in a hurry to clear up, I pile it up and dump it on my desk. Do that a dozen times, and you have geological layers that can be used to date or locate things occasionally. It's been a while since I could see the actual desktop.
However, this weekend is a sort of sloppy scientific experiment involving amateur radio and computers in which I decided to participate. The decision was on very short notice because I only heard about the thing yesterday. In order to run the desired tests, I needed cables between the transceiver and the computer, which I knew were already there but not plugged in. So I had to excavate the desk to locate said cables and get them properly connected. One goes to the input and the other to the output of the sound card in the PC. Both are black, of course, so you can't tell which is which without tracing them back to the radio interface. I had marked one of them with a piece of colored tape, which apparently fell off. ;p
Some things actually got removed from the desktop, but most are now piled precariously in a single pile that is going to have to be moved because the paper drawer of the printer cannot be filled without moving the pile. The cables, however, were indeed located and reconnected to the appropriate places so that the propagation testing software could run. So far, however, I have zero results. I'm shutting down for the night and will restart the experiment in the morning. I'll let BOINC run overnight instead. At least it gets results.
However, this weekend is a sort of sloppy scientific experiment involving amateur radio and computers in which I decided to participate. The decision was on very short notice because I only heard about the thing yesterday. In order to run the desired tests, I needed cables between the transceiver and the computer, which I knew were already there but not plugged in. So I had to excavate the desk to locate said cables and get them properly connected. One goes to the input and the other to the output of the sound card in the PC. Both are black, of course, so you can't tell which is which without tracing them back to the radio interface. I had marked one of them with a piece of colored tape, which apparently fell off. ;p
Some things actually got removed from the desktop, but most are now piled precariously in a single pile that is going to have to be moved because the paper drawer of the printer cannot be filled without moving the pile. The cables, however, were indeed located and reconnected to the appropriate places so that the propagation testing software could run. So far, however, I have zero results. I'm shutting down for the night and will restart the experiment in the morning. I'll let BOINC run overnight instead. At least it gets results.
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Date: 2007-10-13 09:47 pm (UTC)*looks at the single pile of paper and his tail flicks a bit*
*chuckles at the story of the coloured tape* The best laid plans....
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Date: 2007-10-15 02:54 pm (UTC)In the case of being able to get to LJ or even IRC and MUCKs from work, it helps to be the network admin. ;p
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Date: 2007-10-15 09:39 pm (UTC)If they block web protocols completely, you just ssh -X out to a machine that isn't blocked, and run a web browser from there.
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