I have been doing really boring thigns all day, but I have now balanced 3 months worth of credit card bills and stuff and just when I think I am finished i go check my bank account online to see how much I have spent this month and I see 3 transactions for 74.90 all going to giant all on the same day. I think I smell a mistake 🙂 some time later I have a credit on my bank account for 2 of the transactions.

I am finally online, I brought my laptop but the modem part of my combo card is dead, I can’t make it dial out. So I bought an external modem and finally got online. I tried using windows 2000 but for some reason it is refusing to log in. I finally switch to linux and that logged me in first time. So I now I have modem number 3, i thought i would never have to buy one of these beasts again. I might return it when I get home.
By the way I am in Las Vegas for a friend who is getting married to another friend. I would load up some photos but i think that would just be torture of this connection. I need to go check the job sites 🙂

Geek Stuff
Just played around with a tool cool Qcheck to measure the bandwidth between some computers. The interesting thing is I knew laptops were crap if you are doing large data transfers. My wireless lan card got about 4.6 Mbps and my hard wired pcmica card got about 9.28 Mbps. When I don’t have other things to worry about I will try it with other computers, but that means I need to switch my linux box to be an NT box.

Geek Stuff
Am I ever going to remember or want to remember all this stuff I have to know for my Cisco Certification. Do I really care that ISDN Q numbers describe switching and signaling and E numbers describe ISDN on an Existing telephone Network. and I numbers deal with concepts terminology and services. Then there are the s,t,r and u reference points. From the exam guide “S defines the reference poing between user terminals and an NT2 device”. Don’t get me started on the OSI model. I couldn’t make it stick in my head when I took my first networking course at university and I am having issues making it stick now. For reference It goes, Physical, datalink, network, transport, session, presentation, application and data on the way out goes data -> segments -> packets -> frames -> bits. Then there are svc and pvc (svc sporadic virtual circuits, pvc permanent virtual circuits in Frame relays). Sorry for boring people, I find it help remembering things if I write them down.

Oooo just downloaded the new version of opera. Feels a lot faster. Also fixes an annoying bug of not taking you back to the same place you were when you click back on LJ and other pages. I then found that the “new” button wasn’t were I expected so I went and edited the ini file for the buttons and I now have it where I want. I just wish they would support imap email so I don’t have to use outlook express.