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Woooh hooo my cable modem is on line…..

spoke to soon its off again…..

Oh on again just in time to tease me into thinking I good write a post…….

Oh no off again……….

I am giving them the benefit of the doubt because this is the first outage they have had in the year that I have been living here, and they don’t cap my speed so if there is bandwidth I can use it. I will miss my cable service if I move….. My options would be comcast or verizon.

Oh damn down again……

one more try

All I heard was pisssssssshhhhhhhhh…….

I walked my bike back to my apartment and took my car to work. After work and shopping at Ikea I checked the tire and pulled out half a razor blade. This would be patch number 4 or 5 on the back tire so I think it is about time that I wen out and bought a new inner tube. I also noticed that I am down to about a millimeter of tread on the flat of the back tire. Not bad for about 2000 miles. I don’t know exactly how many miles because I changed my odometer at one point and the new one wouldn’t let me set the initial mileage and the battery is now dead on the old one. I dropped the new a couple weeks back and it reset back to zero. It was at 820 miles so I guess I have done about 2000 miles but I could be under estimating that. I know that I used to get my bike serviced every thousand miles, but my bike from the UK is blurring in the bike I have in the US.

I now have a new bed spread, a new set of shelves (which forgot to buy the metal brace [Ikea Ivar]). A CD holder for the billy book case except they have changed the dimension on the billy book cases and the cd thingy is about an inch to wide. I need a saw preferably one with electricity to cut it down to size. So I need to make another trip to Ikea……. maybe I should leave my credit card at home.

I got a new power supply. I had to buy a 350 Watt one from comp usa. It also glows blue. The good news is that it was 10 dollars cheaper than the price marked on the shelf and there was another 10 dollars rebate.

I was moving all my networking equipment to shelf to give me more deskspace. i reached behind my computer stack to move the network cables and felt a very hot computer case. everything is still running but I think the fan is dieing on the power supply. What does a 135 Watt atx power supply cost these days?

Reinstalled windows 2K, Then thought what the hell and updated my desktop to suse 8.1. The Sax2 couldn’t cope with my dual headed video card. It kept saying that you need 2 video cards to do this. Eventually I foud this that explained how to do it.

Oh and we have snow !!!!! wooo oooh

I think I have narrowed down why my printer is not reporting ink levels. The twist is that it works on my laptop. Either it is the version of Windows 2K I used to install it I have a couple different CDs for windows 2K, or it only works when installed on Windows 2K with SP2. My laptop is only at SP2.
I am trying installing SP3 over the top to see what happens. So far I have tried Windows 2k (don’t now which cd I installed from with SP3), Windows 2K CD1 with out any service packs, Windows 2K CD1 with SP3 and all security patches.
Then Windows 2K CD2 and SP2 which works.

update
Ok I did CD2 and SP3 then installed the driver and it worked?
So it is either CD1 or the install routine must very picky about when I plug in the printer

My girl friend came over and I let her cook in my kitchen and that was her Valentines Gift.

My girlfriend says ‘My boyfriend reads porno in my bed’
Continue reading Things that have been said tonight that sound so wrong

I seem to be surprising a lot of my friends that haven’t seen me for a long time. I now have long hair. Last time I had long hair was at university, I cut it short before i started interviewing for jobs.
I have more or less done my federal tax. I think my refund is going to get me the 12.1 inch G4 power book …… drool. I am not in a big rush to add computer number 7 to my house hold (8 if you count my tivo) So if you spot any specials on them let me know.