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| Sunday, September 2, 2001 |
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Compare and contrast 
| | I remember when NetObjects was little more than a gleam in the eye of Surya Panditi, who is one of the most smart and upbeat guys I have ever met — and one I haven't seen in way too long. So I just looked him up and found that he's long gone from NetObjects and now at Avici Systems, which seems to be doing fine. |
Still vexing away
| | I thought the problem with communicating over the remote hub might be the need for a crossover connection. So I went out and bought a female/female inline box and a crossover cable; but it eliminated communication completely. The fact that both hubs show normal (green/green with one light indicating data activity) operation with a straight connection between the two leads me to suspect that it's something else (I believe the remote hub has its own internal crossover too). Craig suggests I go to Radio Shack and get a tester for the cables. That's the next step. Meanwhile I'm up here in the Observatory, getting ready to go out hiking with the family. |
Stuffing a whole pig into one little sausage skin
| | Now everything is out of the apartment and the office, and all over the deck and the back yard. Fortunately it won't rain here for another month or two, but at night the fog makes everything wet, so we have to cover all these boxes, mattresses and containers with large sheets of plastic. |
| | I spent much of yesterday unsuccessfully trying to get the office connected to the Net. Apparently something about the signal doesn't survive the 30-foot cable from the hub in Joyce's office to the outlet in mine. When I plug this laptop to the same jack in the hub it works fine, but when I plug it into the other end of the cable to the office, it doesn't, even all the parameters in the settings are just as automatically filled out by DHCP, and the hub shows perfectly normal activity on its monitor lights -- and hooking an 802.11b base station into the far end seems to work too, though not always. I guess I'll have to pay somebody to come out and make it work. I really don't want to have to pull cable through the rather grungy crawl space under the house. |
| | And now it's time to go find a way to fit into a 9 x 12 space what used to fit in two or three other spaces at least as large. |
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