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| Sunday, July 22, 2001 |
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Aaaah. 
| | The train didn't suck (in fact, it rocked along quite nicely). Pulled into San Diego around three, hooked up with Craig at around four; and here we are, talking deep tech trash from his hotel room high over the harbor whilst the laptop swaps bits at a (just measured) 800kbps over the Ethernet port here. Fuckin' F. |
Tock... tock... tock...
| | Well here I am, back on the Net with the Titanium. Got here by turning off everything remotely related to the Airport card. Guess there's a software conflict. Figures. |
| | It's 2:05am. I'm going to bed (feeling bad for keeping Joyce up with my cursing and snorting around while dividing flagging energies between packing and getting this machine to work). |
| | Whatever. See you in San Diego. I hope. |
Tick... tick... tick...
| | Okay, I finally made a reservation with Amtrak, although there was no way to reserve business class. Not sure why. Hope I can upgrade in the morning at the station. |
| | Now we'll see if defragging the Titanium did shit. |
Last minute screams
| | Since I want to be able to eavesdrop on whatever 802.11b wireless auras may exist in San Diego, I installed an Airport card in my Titanium today. All seemed to go well. The box recognized the card and defaulted to AppleTalk through Airport. I reset it to Ethernet and jacked into the cable modem again a few hours later. |
| | It couldn't see the Net. I checked the settings. Nothing other than the AppleTalk setting had changed, and I changed it back. Everything else seems to be working fine. But now I have no Net access, no email and no #1 phillips head screwdriver to take the card out again. At the moment I'm borrowing Joyce's G3/400 laptop, which works fine. |
| | Meanwhile, Amtrak's Web site is down for maintenance, so I can't make a reservation, which I put off because I don't know exactly when I'll be returning. |
| | Right now (1:37am) the Titanium is going through the full Norton routine. Disk First Aid found nothing wrong. Now I'm debragging the drive, which it probably doesn't need, but my tech guy always insists should be done. |
| | So much for ease of use, no? |
| | I love computing, but sometimes it really sucks. Especially when you need it most. I'll be pretty fucked this week if this thing can't get on the Net. |
| | The train leaves in 6 hours. Hope I can get on it. |
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