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Computers suck
May. 31st, 2004 10:31 pmI finally have watertown up and running again, with connectivity to the outside world and everything. I was kind of cranky that Debian unstable didn't seem to have gotten any more usable in the past month. But Gnucash's issue, for example, was that if the "save window position" option was on it fervently believed it should move the main window off the bottom of the screen, which was the same problem as before. And LogJam seems to be working fine, don't know why it didn't start before.
Verizon DSL, if it wasn't obvious, is a bad idea. We seem to have a "business" account, for reasons unknown. It uses PPPoE. Ick. And if the modem loses connectivity at all for any reason, when it comes back up we get renumbered. So now we're on our third external IP address in under a week. This is irritating for me.
Need to figure out wiring. Should look into conduit-type things more; Home Depot had PVC conduit for about $2/foot, which seems like a lot. The new-donut plan may be to replace it with an off-the-shelf "broadband router" or some such that runs Linux, and move the data on to a machine a step or two forward on Moore's Law, but CompUSA in Braintree didn't have the particular model the Slashdot article mentioned. They did have something with a proprietary 802.11 extension to get 35% more speed if you use their branded cards, so you could have only 48 times as much internal bandwidth before you hit the cable modem pipe to get your Web pages. For only twice the price I was expecting. Woot. Should feed model numbers into Froogle, and search terms into normal Google.
Verizon DSL, if it wasn't obvious, is a bad idea. We seem to have a "business" account, for reasons unknown. It uses PPPoE. Ick. And if the modem loses connectivity at all for any reason, when it comes back up we get renumbered. So now we're on our third external IP address in under a week. This is irritating for me.
Need to figure out wiring. Should look into conduit-type things more; Home Depot had PVC conduit for about $2/foot, which seems like a lot. The new-donut plan may be to replace it with an off-the-shelf "broadband router" or some such that runs Linux, and move the data on to a machine a step or two forward on Moore's Law, but CompUSA in Braintree didn't have the particular model the Slashdot article mentioned. They did have something with a proprietary 802.11 extension to get 35% more speed if you use their branded cards, so you could have only 48 times as much internal bandwidth before you hit the cable modem pipe to get your Web pages. For only twice the price I was expecting. Woot. Should feed model numbers into Froogle, and search terms into normal Google.
