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jawnbcAs Himself has already alluded to, a car was bought yesterday. Shiny, pretty blue car, brand new (OK 2007 model), right off the lot. An immobiliser alarm goes in on Tuesday and it is picked up on Wednesday. Filling the booth trunk hatchback with shite commences immediately thereafter. The claimed there wasn't a tear gas bazooka option, but I think they were being homophobic.
On Friday I spent (we: after a few hours![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
querrelle joined us) the arvo wtih Dr. Dyke and Mrs. Dr. Dyke. They have a new baby, a MacBookPro and I was there to tweak it and load software etc. Apple products, now there's my sort of commodity fetishism. They had misplaced the old router I got them 4 years ago, so the Mrs. and I zapped over to retail purgatory to grab one for them--and for us, since we needed a new one and they wanted to gift me a wee something for what turned out to be 4 hours of help with their computing. The router worked like a charm, we went off for dosas (first time...yum!) and then the two of us toddled home.
So yesterday morning, pre-car shopping, I kissed Max good-bye, abluted and took 10 minutes to install our new router. Wouldn't get an IP address. Reset it via software; still wouldn't. Tried cloning MAC address (not really necessary with our cable ISP), still wouldn't. Hard reset, still wouldn't. Checked ISP directly in laptop, worked just fine. Finally called tech support: after 20 minutes on hold a no-doubt nice man had me do everything I had already done again, twice. Clearly the thing was fooked, because it wouldn't get, release, or renew an IP address. He escalated the call and after 10 minutes and one new trick (I'll remember that trick in the future), nothing continued to happen. By this time I was dressing myself whilst on the call and already 10 minutes late for my departure to meetquerrelle. As punishment for being 15 minutes late he abandoned me on a 49cc scooter on the Wesminster Highway. Bastard!
Car shop bla bla, yorkshire pudding and roast for lunch bla bla, buy car bla bla, health food supermarket bla bla, hot root bla bla, taco salad for 22h dinner bla bla, bed.
I am laundering and have cleaned the bathroom and bedroom. Later I am to dine withbeverly_sutphin and another homosexualist. This evening I will break out the crack pipe and sing hymns.
Happy Labour Day--dislexic workers of the world untie!
On Friday I spent (we: after a few hours
querrelle joined us) the arvo wtih Dr. Dyke and Mrs. Dr. Dyke. They have a new baby, a MacBookPro and I was there to tweak it and load software etc. Apple products, now there's my sort of commodity fetishism. They had misplaced the old router I got them 4 years ago, so the Mrs. and I zapped over to retail purgatory to grab one for them--and for us, since we needed a new one and they wanted to gift me a wee something for what turned out to be 4 hours of help with their computing. The router worked like a charm, we went off for dosas (first time...yum!) and then the two of us toddled home.So yesterday morning, pre-car shopping, I kissed Max good-bye, abluted and took 10 minutes to install our new router. Wouldn't get an IP address. Reset it via software; still wouldn't. Tried cloning MAC address (not really necessary with our cable ISP), still wouldn't. Hard reset, still wouldn't. Checked ISP directly in laptop, worked just fine. Finally called tech support: after 20 minutes on hold a no-doubt nice man had me do everything I had already done again, twice. Clearly the thing was fooked, because it wouldn't get, release, or renew an IP address. He escalated the call and after 10 minutes and one new trick (I'll remember that trick in the future), nothing continued to happen. By this time I was dressing myself whilst on the call and already 10 minutes late for my departure to meet
querrelle. As punishment for being 15 minutes late he abandoned me on a 49cc scooter on the Wesminster Highway. Bastard!Car shop bla bla, yorkshire pudding and roast for lunch bla bla, buy car bla bla, health food supermarket bla bla, hot root bla bla, taco salad for 22h dinner bla bla, bed.
I am laundering and have cleaned the bathroom and bedroom. Later I am to dine with
beverly_sutphin and another homosexualist. This evening I will break out the crack pipe and sing hymns.Happy Labour Day--dislexic workers of the world untie!
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Date: 2007-09-02 07:58 pm (UTC)Sounds like the router's DOA. Mine was similarly dead out of the box, but would only do a DHCP lookup on some random IP's but not others. Difficult to troubleshoot.
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