Agile Tortoise

Archive for November, 2003

Oh, and the DSL is fast. We’re theoretically subscribed to 768k down/128k up, but I ran the speed tests at DSL Reports last night, and was getting about 1100k down/144k up. Whohoo! I had the same service speeds via Verizon at the old house, and never got better than 660-680k down.

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003. Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »>

The network is live!

Well, I hooked up the new free router, and my switch, and relocated the DSL modem to the homerun box in my closet…and now the new house is fully networked! 11 live 10/100 ports around the house. Activated the TiVO home media option…very cool. Though it will be much cooler when the [...]

Wednesday, November 26th, 2003. Posted in Family and Friends, Technology, TiVO | 1 Comment »>

Back online

Our DSL is now up and running at the new house. Whohoo! Just connected to the one machine now, I haven’t setup the network yet but that will happen sometime this week.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Free router

Need a broadband router? MacMall is giving them away (after rebate).

Thursday, November 20th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

The big move

The big move is now complete. We’re living in the new house.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2003. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Cheese racing

Sounds like fun. I like a sport which you can participate in and drink beer at the same time.

Friday, November 14th, 2003. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>

Jose Feliciano Slurpee cup

No, really, I ain’t kidding. Some things never cease to amaze.

Friday, November 14th, 2003. Posted in Humor | No Comments »>

House

Well, it’s been, and will continue to be a crazy week. We now own the new house and have sold the old one. The actual move is the next project…so much to do!

Thursday, November 13th, 2003. Posted in Family and Friends | No Comments »>

Toshiba Tivo/DVD

I ordered a Toshiba SD-H400 Tivo-DVD this morning for the new house. Looking forward to the home media option on the Tivo. We’ll be able to play our iTunes libraries and iPhoto albums through it via the network hookup. And program the Tivo to record shows via the Internet. Plus, it’s [...]

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003. Posted in Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

Church signs

Man, I needed a laugh this morning…and found one, via Dave. He pointed to the Church Sign Generator, which is funny on it own, but the link from there to these pictures of church signs had me spitting coffee. My favorites are this and this.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2003. Posted in Humor | 1 Comment »>

jpeg2ascii

A JPEG to ASCII converter. Wicked cool. Here’s what it does with a picture of Asher and Keegan sharing an ice cream cone. [via bblog]

Thursday, November 6th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Robot cars?

This contest will be fascinating…the entrants’ robot cars will have to complete a grueling course.

The 250-mile course–which won’t be completely revealed until two hours before the start–will require the computerized vehicles to drive through or around sand, mud, boulders, ditches, barbed wire, mountains and at least one overpass where onboard GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation [...]

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

The ballad of the clean install…

(The Windows XP version)
Boot, format…
Install….Answer Questions…
Install….Answer Questions…
Install….Answer Questions…
Download driver, driver and driver…
Install driver….reboot…
Install driver….reboot…
Install driver, driver, driver…reboot
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Windows update…reboot…
Remove annoyances…
(The Panther Version)
Boot…Answer questions…
Install…
Get on with your life!

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>

Worst album covers, ever.

No, really, they are bad.

Tuesday, November 4th, 2003. Posted in Humor, Music | 1 Comment »>

UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

My windows laptop is current on hiatus. I used it at home Friday night, then Saturday morning it was dead. Gets as far as the the XP splash screen then hits a blue screen of death, with the message, “UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME”. Sounds like it may be a corrupt boot sector, and may be [...]

Monday, November 3rd, 2003. Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »>