Comments on: Modem demoted

By: mungascr

mungascr — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:51:43 +0000

No luck seeing anything from Oz – well at least not Adelaide or atleatsagain my corner thereof. Too cloudy.

Slept outside last night an’ all – on a swag on the lawn, looking up … at the clouds with very occasional partial breaks and no meteors. Did spot a bright satellite or very high altidue plane briefly and that’s all folks.

Fully overcast on the other two nights too.

Ah, computers – can’t live with’em, can’t kill em.
(with apologies to the script-writer of ‘True Lies’)

What they really need to invent is a just bl__ work button!

By: CS

CS — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:19:58 +0000

Just in case you were unaware that most cable modems have one, have you checked the cable modem status page? They often have a log of what connection problems they are having. The ip address depends on the brand (like a router), and is something like http://192.168.100.1/ (if that works for you).

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:45:26 +0000

Melusine: Tanks for the link to Blake.
Very insightful!!!

Now I have somewhere else to spend my retirement time,,,

GAry 7

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:37:39 +0000

Shouldn’t be Bora Boring – that was a joke to the Bora Bora guy who harassed Phil, and who was rightly deleted. Sorry. Need. More. Coffee.

By: Bora Boring

Bora Boring — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:30:49 +0000

It’s 4:25 a.m…that would be “Cheers! to the positive aspects of the Internet.”

This is apt, too.

By: Melusine

Melusine — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:11:21 +0000

My modems seem to fry easily – I’ve been through four in four years. I hate places like CompUSA, because they didn’t tell me that it’s a snap to replace a modem yourself. When I brought it to a small shop with these odd, heavyset guys who smoke in front of customers, one guy showed me, and I was like, “Oh…that’s easy.” I was so embarrassed. Now I dust my CPU innards.

Regarding Jennifer and Sean – who would have thought APS meetings could be such hotbeds of romance? Cheers! to the postive aspect of the Internet, though…

…from Blake’s link, this may be all too true.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:14:24 +0000

You’re without the Internets? Internets? How many Internets are there?

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:59:14 +0000

Hmmm, 12 step. Is that a new dance?

Will keep a look out for the Lion this am, at least for a little while.

Gary 7

By: Dean Baird

Dean Baird — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:48:54 +0000

You’re a real trooper, Plait. That and you’ve got a serious addiction to the web. Here’s hoping you never find the appropriate 12-step program. (Actually, considering their efficacy, here’s hoping you do!)

By: Hawk

Hawk — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:10:27 +0000

I was getting an observed hourly rate of about 2 from midnight -1am in Alabama. Not a good observation, then the clouds rolled in. I will get the complete night’s story from Rob on monday, but the last prediction was that no storm was predicted before dawn.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:52:04 +0000

OK, this seems like an opportunity to solve several problems at once — you know, kill a flock of birds with one meteor. We should follow the example of old fairy tales and hold a grand tournament to find which suitor-avatar can have the hand of Jen-Luc Piquant. In one stroke, we could solve the problem of her, ahem, technological singularity and tell who is the best science blogger of all the Blogotubes!