I'm sort of halfway here
Feb. 10th, 2007 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancinghorseSince a lot of the email regulars check in on this lj, this is a general posting to let you know the new hard drive is in and the installation is proceeding, but since it arrived unformatted (ergo, hours and hours of watching the little lights flash on and off), plus the mozilla backups didn't take, there's a bit of work to do still. I managed to forward most of the critical mail to gmail but haven't had a chance to tackle a lot of it, and I may have lost the cait-brennan inbox altogether. I'll check on that tomorrow. Please be patient. I'll get there.
It doesn't help that they sent me XP Pro instead of XP Home, which is very nice, but it adamantly refuses to connect to the Internet--wireless, ethernet cable, dialup, won't do a one. Complete blind spot in that respect. Every troubleshooting step begins with a little command line that isn't there and can't be made to be there. Finally, after 'way too much time spent getting nowhere, I put the Netgear card in and, after three tries, got it to work. Every now and then it tries to take over the Windows wireless controls, but I learned that lesson right good and quick.
If anyone knows how to get XP Pro to allow any kind of direct Internet connection, I'd love to know about it. I can run the drivers as long as I've got the Netgear card in and installed. And that's it.
Meanwhile the new brain for the backup puter is here, so that can go to the factory and get its new keyboard and heat sink and get much, much smarter. And there is water finally. No wonder I couldn't find it: it was almost five feet down. The repair seems to be holding after an episode with mild leakage this morning; I've got it cordoned off with hot tape so the horses can go in the arena. That's been a welcome development after a few days in the smaller paddock.
And, you know, work? Might happen again finally, now the new drive is in. We shall see.
It doesn't help that they sent me XP Pro instead of XP Home, which is very nice, but it adamantly refuses to connect to the Internet--wireless, ethernet cable, dialup, won't do a one. Complete blind spot in that respect. Every troubleshooting step begins with a little command line that isn't there and can't be made to be there. Finally, after 'way too much time spent getting nowhere, I put the Netgear card in and, after three tries, got it to work. Every now and then it tries to take over the Windows wireless controls, but I learned that lesson right good and quick.
If anyone knows how to get XP Pro to allow any kind of direct Internet connection, I'd love to know about it. I can run the drivers as long as I've got the Netgear card in and installed. And that's it.
Meanwhile the new brain for the backup puter is here, so that can go to the factory and get its new keyboard and heat sink and get much, much smarter. And there is water finally. No wonder I couldn't find it: it was almost five feet down. The repair seems to be holding after an episode with mild leakage this morning; I've got it cordoned off with hot tape so the horses can go in the arena. That's been a welcome development after a few days in the smaller paddock.
And, you know, work? Might happen again finally, now the new drive is in. We shall see.
