Developing Patience

[athelstanent]

Waiting for a call back to sort out WAN problem at work... about 100 people can not effectively get there work done. The second time the tech on the provider end told me it was on my LAN. Some testing later and it was not. Got to love packet sniffers and ping! Called back to the tech and many other techs and waiting for that call back. Leaving voicemails in an emergency is never fun. Now for everything else, I've just been flustered by not being able to finish any project. My big fractal project is on hold because I don't have enough ram, and my partitioning scheme is messed up so I can't easily get a big swap file. The issue is with gimp needing twice the memory of the pic to edit it. So two 300 meg files makes it want to have 1.8 gig of ram... My music project is on hold do to lack of inspiration or getting to flustered with the tools I have. Bunny and I are looking for houses, but we still look waiting for the house that has everything that we want. We have a few that have almost everything we want, and that are in good areas. We are just wanting to look at all the houses we marked from the listings before settling with something that does not have everything we want.

All of this just makes me realize all of the things I want to do and could not do so far. Just got to get going and work on other things when a current project hits a wall.

Comments

Ghosts in the machine

[ghostbehr.livejournal.com]

Hmmm you lose your WAN, I lose my T! to the internet thanks to some defective kit from Verizon..sounds fishy :) I completely relate to the urge to reach out and touch someone when having a network down emergency. With Cisco, I had a live person on the phone in minutes and usually got stuff done right away. With Verizon and some others, it seems like the customer is always wrong and that they will fix it when they feel like getting around to it :( The total lack of responsiveness and customer service just reminds me why monopolies are flat out evil and need to be destroyed. Alas it would seem that certain monopolies donate enough to politicians locally and nationally to prevent any meaningful competition be it for your cable, phone or power :(

As for your projects, keep pounding away at them. House buying is a hellish experience as there are a lot of buyers out there right now and the last few people I have talked to who sold their houses said that they went in from 7 hours to 3 days. When I bought mine it had been on the market 6 hours or so. I am just glad it is not the valley or so cal where the various buyers tend to engage in a bidding war. I can think of few things worse than finding the house of your dreams only to find that someone came in at the last moment and bid up the price beyond your means :( Anyhow, I hope you and Bunny do find the house of your dreams and settle down to the joys of home ownership :)

Re: Ghosts in the machine

[athelstan.livejournal.com]

Well my issue turned out to be a Linksys DSL/CABLE router plugged in the network that had the same IP as our WAN router.

Houses are ongoing, but I'm starting to realize if a house has been on the market, there is a good reason. Not sure how we'll be able to pounce on a house. Still have one more batch to go look at and then we start pouncing. }:-)

Hey, lil guy.

[aethan.livejournal.com]

Miss talking to you. I'm working from home now, so I'm on Taps more often than not, during the day. Log on, if you can, or drop me an email. Love you. *smooch*