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Tonight is Ravioli Night. Whee!
I'm a bit bored atm, hence the posting. I've got work to do, I just don't feel like doing it. Instead, I'm going to bitch about some technical issues I'm having lately.
1) Home Network
Turns out the iTunes and iPod aren't the reasons for the slowness. My home network is responsible. It was nice and fast a few weeks ago, but since then I had a power failure. I think my hub/router took a hit. Since then I've had 3 machines on the network and the fastest I've been able to push anything is a little over 5 Mb/s between any combination of them. I should be getting 70 Mb/s throughput. One is Win XP, a second is Win 2K and the last is SUSE 10. Tonight I'll try out a crossover cable between XP and SUSE to see what happens. I've got a switch, but I'd rather not drop that on the network because then everything will be going across a single connection to the router.
2) Network Computers
I've got an old IBM 8364 Netvista Network Computer. It's got a 96 MB flash card in it and I've been trying to get Damn Small Linux to work on it. It's being a bitch about it.
3) Ideas for Mom
I've got several old laptops at home and I'm trying to get at least one of them working. The plan is to drop a Live CD on it, or even boot it from hard disk if it's got one, then bring up a VNC connection to my parents' main computer in their basement over a wireless connection. They don't have broadband, and it's not available to them. So, they have a modem right now. My Mom has a medical condition dealing with the cold, the the computer is in the basement. There's no room for it upstairs. She's told me she'd love to go online, browse the web, send email, etc. So, I thought this would be a good way to get her connected in a convenient way.
I just hope I can get one of the laptops working to pull this off.
Over the weekend I got a storage place at Public Storage. I hope it's big enough - 10' x 10'. I brought my fishing stuff down and stuck it in S's garage too.
Ex came by and got some of her stuff on Saturday, too. It went okay. Just the two of us there, then she hit the road.
That's about it. I'll probably post later this week, depending on how the home network is behaving.
I'm a bit bored atm, hence the posting. I've got work to do, I just don't feel like doing it. Instead, I'm going to bitch about some technical issues I'm having lately.
1) Home Network
Turns out the iTunes and iPod aren't the reasons for the slowness. My home network is responsible. It was nice and fast a few weeks ago, but since then I had a power failure. I think my hub/router took a hit. Since then I've had 3 machines on the network and the fastest I've been able to push anything is a little over 5 Mb/s between any combination of them. I should be getting 70 Mb/s throughput. One is Win XP, a second is Win 2K and the last is SUSE 10. Tonight I'll try out a crossover cable between XP and SUSE to see what happens. I've got a switch, but I'd rather not drop that on the network because then everything will be going across a single connection to the router.
2) Network Computers
I've got an old IBM 8364 Netvista Network Computer. It's got a 96 MB flash card in it and I've been trying to get Damn Small Linux to work on it. It's being a bitch about it.
3) Ideas for Mom
I've got several old laptops at home and I'm trying to get at least one of them working. The plan is to drop a Live CD on it, or even boot it from hard disk if it's got one, then bring up a VNC connection to my parents' main computer in their basement over a wireless connection. They don't have broadband, and it's not available to them. So, they have a modem right now. My Mom has a medical condition dealing with the cold, the the computer is in the basement. There's no room for it upstairs. She's told me she'd love to go online, browse the web, send email, etc. So, I thought this would be a good way to get her connected in a convenient way.
I just hope I can get one of the laptops working to pull this off.
Over the weekend I got a storage place at Public Storage. I hope it's big enough - 10' x 10'. I brought my fishing stuff down and stuck it in S's garage too.
Ex came by and got some of her stuff on Saturday, too. It went okay. Just the two of us there, then she hit the road.
That's about it. I'll probably post later this week, depending on how the home network is behaving.
posted by Pat Marshall at 12:56
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