A Bug's Life

As D suggested, I patched the phone line directly into the patch panel, took the ADSL splitter and router upstairs to the study with working phone line. Insert gizmo between wall socket and phone; add router and long cable to PC. See LAN marked as 'Disabled, firewalled'. Don't actually panic, and instead right click on LAN and see menu item Enable. Click it. Becomes enabled. Have LAN, on PC, at desk, with chair, and don't have to curl up in a cupboard any more :-) Still no Wifi, but it will hurt me not at all to not be able to footle on the Internet from bed. Yaaaaaay!

But my goodness, I had a terrible driving lesson today. ( Read more... )

And, y'know, distracted by the heaps of sorting there is to do in the house. I've done a lot, I want to do as much as I can while I have this momentum otherwise the heaps will stay forever. I do have a chance of getting the place in good order, and clearing some shelf/cupboard space for the incoming tamaranth, but right now it's quite hard to walk along the hall.

The phone number here will change. BT couldn't keep the same number when I take over the line in a couple of weeks, they tried but it's "50:50 if the system will let it" and I was unlucky. I don't know what it is about the system that interferes with manual number assignation, but I'm prepared to believe it's real.

Oh, shoot me now. I've just started a box called "Things that are broken but someone might be able to make something out of them some day." I should perhaps call it "Bin".

Unless anyone wants a plastic dalek whose paint job is suffering? I dunno, you could paint it pink and make it Barbie Dalek (thus infringing two sets of intellectual property at once!), or fill it with explosives and film your own FX sequence, or, or...