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[filkertom]

Modem got fried by the storm last night. It also got water in my foyer. All this in a ten-minute window. Sheesh. The biggest inconvenience, though, was simply dealing with AT&T. SBC at least had their shit together. AT&T is just shit.

So, how's your tech day going?

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[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Because Adobe hasn't released Flash Player 9 for Linux yet, and the Sci-Fi Channel's Eureka and Battlestar Galactica webisodes both require it, I installed Wine (http://www.winehq.com), Windows-edition Firefox, and Windows-edition Flash Player. Amazingly, it works without a hitch.

This weekend (which, thanks to government scheduling, starts tonight), I think I'm going to put a router back into my home networking setup. I don't need it, strictly speaking, since the only thing I have that's Net-active is my computer, but it's probably a generally good policy to have one on hand. I'll need to get a Wireless Access Point, or maybe just a wireless router (one of the Linksys ones which has open-sourced uberfirmware), at some point.

Though, twice in the last week my modem has unexpectedly cut out for a few hours. I just leave it alone and it reactivates, but it's weird...

[stormgren.livejournal.com]

If you own a windows computer, you need a router when on broadband.

If nothing else than for the firewalling.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Well, I run Gentoo Linux, so I don't need it for that, at least.