caraig | Works In Progress

So everything's going reasonably well this week. (Yeah, I know, the loneliness thing, that'll always be with me while I'm down here. What the heck can I do about it?) But all in all, I can't complain. The project is coming along with some good direction, and I'm rather pleased with it.

So I have this Linksys router. I've had since, oh, about November or December. But it's had this issue with it. Whenever I try to telnet somewhere, I get trhough fine, but then if I'm idle for even a little bit, and then there's activity on the remote host... I don't see that activity, and I get disconnected. It's extremely frustrating. I'm certain it's the router because this didn't happen before I got it, and it happens with both my PC and Mac.

Anyway, Linksys is telling me a lot of things, everything from they don't support Macs, to changing the MTU settings, to reflashing the firmware. They just told me to reinstall the TCP/IP stacks. Reinstall TCP/IP?! That's silly! The problem isn't with TCP/IP because I don't get this problem within my LAN. Linksys won't take it back, and the warranty has passed. If anyone can give any suggestions for this to work, I'd be greatly appreciative.

Not much else is happening. I've been eating a little more now that I'm not spending insane amounts of time at the lab -- which is good, because I'd been getting charleyhorses when I was waking up in the morning. The weather down here has been really stormy of late, lots of rain -- I love it! It's MUCH nicer than devastatingly meltingly sunny days, and besides, I like storms anyway. It's weather with character.

Not much else to say, so I'll end it here for now. I'm sure some topic worthy of a rant will come up soon. =)