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Yay, snow, sort of
Well, enough so I had to turn on the windshield wipers to blow it away. For this late in the year, insignificant here. It was real snow, though. And cold.
Got to work, dragged a laptop out to where the public ports are, plugged it in. Tried every test I could come up with, and it still worked. Sorry, guy who complained to someone that you couldn't connect yesterday. Our system is working. Yours is not.
Wireless router came in today's mail. That was quick! Took it to work with me, and did find a few minutes to test it. Of course they provide no real documentation, only notes for idiots. Worse, they failed to provide half a dozen lines on the default power on state and settings, that would have allowed me to configure it in minutes from any PC, even one running (gasp) Linux. Oh no, they had to insist that you must initialize it by running a "wizard" program off a CD, which only works on a Windows PC. Assholes. So I did it their way, and in the process figured out all I really would have had to do. Now set up, using WPA and working at home. And yes, the Zipit connects to it just fine, though the present location of the router gives a pretty weak signal at the other end of the house. Have to change that.
Tried out links (text based web browser) and irssi (irc client) in the Linux shell on the Zipit, and both worked. In the default graphical environment, the streaming radio player works fine, and I had difficulty with the IM client. It won't connect to either AIM or Yahoo, dunno why. Same name and password work fine in pidgin on Linux.
We've made an appointment to go down to Bloomington to see and hopefully bring back Red, the dog the adoption folks selected for us. I think he's going to fit in well here and be happy, but we have to go see him to confirm that.
Off work tomorrow because the service guy is coming to check the ground loop on our geothermal. Off again next Thurs. to go to Bloomington. And now, bedtime.
Got to work, dragged a laptop out to where the public ports are, plugged it in. Tried every test I could come up with, and it still worked. Sorry, guy who complained to someone that you couldn't connect yesterday. Our system is working. Yours is not.
Wireless router came in today's mail. That was quick! Took it to work with me, and did find a few minutes to test it. Of course they provide no real documentation, only notes for idiots. Worse, they failed to provide half a dozen lines on the default power on state and settings, that would have allowed me to configure it in minutes from any PC, even one running (gasp) Linux. Oh no, they had to insist that you must initialize it by running a "wizard" program off a CD, which only works on a Windows PC. Assholes. So I did it their way, and in the process figured out all I really would have had to do. Now set up, using WPA and working at home. And yes, the Zipit connects to it just fine, though the present location of the router gives a pretty weak signal at the other end of the house. Have to change that.
Tried out links (text based web browser) and irssi (irc client) in the Linux shell on the Zipit, and both worked. In the default graphical environment, the streaming radio player works fine, and I had difficulty with the IM client. It won't connect to either AIM or Yahoo, dunno why. Same name and password work fine in pidgin on Linux.
We've made an appointment to go down to Bloomington to see and hopefully bring back Red, the dog the adoption folks selected for us. I think he's going to fit in well here and be happy, but we have to go see him to confirm that.
Off work tomorrow because the service guy is coming to check the ground loop on our geothermal. Off again next Thurs. to go to Bloomington. And now, bedtime.