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Archive for August, 2006

Is work getting better?

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Had a job today that finally sorted out the problems for my new client, yey! Also took 3 hours, so that’s one hour away from a full day (yes I did the math’s and 4 hours a day 5 days a week it the target, although more would be GREAT, not much more to do [...]

Printers and Darned VPN (again)

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

First thing this morning a call from Bulldog Tech Support about my line problems and a couple of tests later they admit there is a fault, they STILL think it is with the line though, EVEN though when on BT ATM its clear as a bell (same cable DOH!). *sigh* They said nothing to do [...]

Weather Station.

Tuesday, August 29th, 2006

Got a weather station the other day, well the postage and packing for the item I *needed* was about 10 quid and the weather station made the postage free, so spent 10 quid extra and got that (kind of weird logic but it suits me). Anyway spent a couple of hours playing around with it [...]

Loop Antenna, Free calls.

Monday, August 28th, 2006

A lot of today was taken up with fiddly website things; one of them I’m currently looking at is changing all the forms on my sites making them more secure. Also I have a couple of changes I need to do right away so that has been my main thing today, that and making a [...]

Guild Wars & The Lake House

Sunday, August 27th, 2006

Rahl popped round today and I spent far too much time playing Guild Wars, finally managed to grab my Elite skill I have needed for ages, and managed to get to the Fire Islands.. Which frankly is a bit sad as many people have completed this game after a couple of days.. Me well.. I [...]

Floppy Disk Drives and controllers

Saturday, August 26th, 2006

So you remember last night I got the SX64 working (yey) anyway today I noticed it was having trouble loading software so I took the beats apart and checked the floppy drive. Basically nearly 20 year old Floppy Disks leave a lot of gunk on a head and I ended up having to clean a [...]

Tidy up (ish) finally an SX64

Friday, August 25th, 2006

After a late night, early morning, I managed the get up and sort out a bit of the computer room which had started to become messy again, hey I do a lot of stuff in there. Did a Tidy up in the office and started doing some work but lost the will to live when [...]

VPN and the horror story.

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Ok so I arrive on time, yes the router turned up in time, YEY! And find out that the client is using a Voyager 2500V which means they’re using their phone line through it!! ARGHH! So I struggle to get to grips with it and finally admit that I can put my product in but [...]

Damn you wireless networks!

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

Had a call from a new client last night and this morning I popped in to map some network drives.. Wait for it.. Across a damn wireless network.. Grrr… Anyway after a lot of fiddling I gave up and suggested that she buy a switch to resolve the problem.. Fast forward to the afternoon and [...]

Lawn mower?

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Well it’s bright and sunny so I’m about to tackle the back lawn, which frankly resembles a mix between the local building site and small sprouting rain forest. In fact I swear I saw a bunch of naked pigmies running past the window the other day! After my massive clean up and sort out yesterday [...]