I am really happy that my parents finally have high-speed Internet. They got DSL service on Friday… actually earlier in the week but the computer they were installing it to got bolluxed up by the installer. They got it working with a different computer on Friday. I came up for a visit today to install a router so they can share the connection between the 3 computers. I gave them my old SMC Barricade to use for this. Apparently the firmware that was on it (unsupported version that I upgraded to while I was using it) has decided to be flakey so I downgraded it from v1.95u to 1.95n. I’d like to put 1.95j on it since that’s what people in the forums are recommending but I can’t seem to locate it in a format that I can make use of (only Windows EXEs)
Archive for March 29th, 2003
I find it interesting how reading statements relating to national pride sometimes give me goosebumps. I just browsed over a news article relating to the deployment of the 4th Infantry Division … aka Task Force Ironhorse. I read it because liz4jc4ever‘s brother is part of that division, though his trip over was delayed to make room for some MPs on the plane. It sucks because Liz got word Thursday that he was leaving, and now he’s not gone, and she’ll probably get word again soon that he really is leaving and have to again go through the thoughts that enter one’s head when you ponder a loved one departing for military combat.
Anyway. I was reading that article and some of the statements inspire a degree of national pride and sense of history that few other things do.
