Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Got up.

Went to the Cafe.

Sorted out network issues. Got wireless equipment working.

Found powersupplies for dodgy SDSL routers.

Tried to print something. Stupid HP 4 in 1 printer is a piece of poo that doesn't work. I tried to get the Lexmark printer working, it just prints ASCII characters. I tried to get the network interface working on it, but windows doesn't support network printers natively.

I tried to set it up with the linux box, but it was busy downloading updates, so apt was locked, and I couldn't install lpr.

I took the dud SDSL routers with me when I left, I wanted to try using the serial port on them.

I went with the guy I go to dinner with to see a guy (that gave me my Satellite decoder), he wasn't there, so I went back to my mates place and watched tv.

We went to dinner.

Went and saw the guy again, gave him a working card. Setup a second decoder for him. My mate fitted a new modem on his PC, we found that it was full of virii, Swen etc.

While waiting for the virus scanner to update, someone called, and call waiting disconnected the internet connection. Instead of being a 1/2 hour job, we were there for an hour and a half. We didn't finish, so we're going back again next week.

I got back to my mates place, and came home, because I was tired.

I sat and watched a bit of tv.

I started fiddling with the SDSL routers, can't get anything out of the serial ports on them.

I googled about them, found some config software for them, grabbed it, tried reconfiguring them. One SDSL router is totally stuffed, the config software can't find it. The other one works, but it doesn't seem to accept changes to the settings.

It's after midnight, I'm going to bed.