a chance to catch my breath
So the long weekend is upon me. Last week couldn't end fast enough. Friday, was thankfully, not that bad, but on the whole it was a miserable week that I'd rather not remember.
On Friday evening I reloaded Denise's laptop with FC2, after the attempt to upgrade it blew up. I think i hacked pcmcia-cs too much, and I wasn't in the mood to troubleshoot it, so I just reloaded it fresh. That went fairly smoothly. After fighting with the wifi for over an hour, I got it working.
I spent altogether too many hours yesterday tinkering with the laptop. In the end it was fruitful. I got the smart media card reader working properly (all with pretty icons to mount it). I got acpi battery measurements displaying in gkrellm. I got the modem working properly. The modem was a huge pain though. EIther I'm just not getting it or Redhat botched modems. The only tool that I could locate to graphically configure a dialup connection was system-config-network-gui. That seemd to just call wvdial in the background, and wvdial was determined to use CHAP authentication even though the provider needed PAP. Now its entirely possible that wvdial can be configured to use PAP rather than CHAP, but again, i needed a GUI solution, and that wouldn't have been one. So i had to install massive chunk of KDE in order to get KPPP working. And work it did, after nearly 2 hours of hacking.
We also went to get me a new bed yesterday. I've been sleeping on this ancient, worn down bed for the past 7 years or so. Along with this we rearranged the beds in our room to point north/south rather than east/west.
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Colin was bored yesterday. How do I know? He told me so in email. He spent much of the day peppering me and a host of others with random annoying emails in the way that Colin does best. Colin, if you're bored, why not do something with your family, and leave your employees alone for a change? Or does your family just ignore you because you can't bark orders at them with the same gross abuse of power that you use at work? The guy needs a hobby that doesn't include surfing the net for pointless websites that no one cares about, or pondering new & creative ways to torture sales.<br />
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