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Baby steps

Well, the cable run upstairs from the basement was a success. However, the Linksys is fighting with the Airport for DHCP supremacy in an all-too-familar smackdown. Yesterday I was able to hang the Airport off the Linksys and still have the Airport hand out DHCP assignments and manage the client cloud effectively; today, I’m getting no love from the bitmonsters. Still, I now have RJ-45 Ethernet run from the DSL entry point to the very center of the house both upstairs and down, a good place to be if you envision a mixed wired/wireless network with a server closet.

All of this after some heavy bushwhacking that yielded a nice haystack size pile of slaughtered and dismembered tree parts.

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Routes

Linksys BESFR41 docs, Ars Technica writeup. I’m patching thin into my home LAN as an upstairs hub and need to figure out if I want to let it run DHCP or keep it on the Airports. I also need to see what havoc the default config might enforce on stuff like Appletalk and so forth.

Oh today’s a busy day – drilling cable runs, pruning trees, cleaning house.

The same day I squashed my cell-phone, it should be noted, Viv accidentally attached her iPod to a magnetic-latch closure on her cell-phone case. The iPod was described to me as “stuck to the case.” Hearing this, I had no great hope that the tiny hard drive was functional, and indeed, after much waving of chicken feet and casting of entrails, I pronounced the device dead. Happily, it was well under warranty and so we took it to the Apple Store in U Village and they immediately replaced it.

Further adding to the week of technical misery, my car’s right turn light finally popped out of the crunched fender it has been doggedly clinging to for the past few years, and it’s currently taped in place. We haven’t been able to find the time this weekend to get it to a shop but it’s clearly necessary now.

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Gruesome

So, speaking generally, the skinny on my smashed Treo is: I’m SOL. Apparently the Treo 700p is due out in mid-May (that’s the 700 with PalmOS on it instead of Windows Mobile), but Palm hasn’t made a formal announcement on this yet. That means that even used Treo 650s are running around $300 on eBay. Forum postings indicate that having a hissy fit on the phone with your provider might sometimes result in a replacement discounted phone.

I’m leaning in the direction of locating a vanilla candy-bar phone that I can use until the 700p is out and then assessing.

The screen is utterly cracked and I can’t get the phone to wake up, as the key guard feature requires a button press. However, incoming calls do activate the phone and while the display is about 50% obscured by a black fog-like area the touchscreen works perfectly well.

I did locate a Treo repairman, but the base rate to fix a dual screen and keyboard failure, including parts and labor, is over $200. My guess is that after the 700w comes out $200 will be the average resale price on eBay for the 650.

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Step

Word to the wise: do not step on your Treo 650 until such time as the Treo 700p has been released.

dammit.

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Shimineya

Shimineya

At Home & Garden Art near 85th, I noticed that at some point recently my Treo’s SD card had gone AWOL. I think it may have been at Six Arms last night, as I dropped the phone once while there.

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Food and flowers

Food and flowers


Food and flowers

Jon tells me all my recent posts are about food. He’s right, and it’s probably because when I cook it’s the only time feel creatively engaged at the moment. Not that I don’t have stuff to do – I’m trying my hand at film editing, for example – but when I cook I often feel sense of satisfaction, of skill. Not so to dtae for the flick, and I really have no idea how the celebrated bourgeois writers of the ast century madfe time or desire for writing in the face of leaky windows and moldy walls.

In ameliatory fashion, all four flowering fruit trees on our proppity have burst forth. The lord of them, a tall cherry in the back yard, has a distinct and lovely fragrance.