Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." -- Abraham Lincoln

Improper lane changes constitue an especially annoying subset of dangerous examples of Δv. (Admittedly, factors such as s_car1 − s_car2 and t_signal (if a turn signal is used at all) contribute significantly to the danger associated with that small Δv.)

Sometimes spelling matters. A Bain Sidhe foretells a death, but a Baen Sidhe is probably to publishing what the Keebler elves are to cookies. (I'm picturing little proofreaders who live in a tree.)

Speaking of writing, and since I'm not sure when I'll get around to another link-sausage post (you should see my to-do list -- oy!), here's something that will probably offend a few of my friends (but they'll probably be laughing too hard to hurt me much), as linked to already by a couple of other folks: The Tech Writer's Style Guide. Read to the end (after putting down your drink). You don't want to bail out before the writing example at the end.

I'm feeling much more energetic than I was when I was accidentally ingesting all that caffeine, but today I have a rather painful headache (thus very slow progress on the aforementioned to-do list). This may or may not be taken as an excuse for the preceeding portions of this entry.

One thing I did do was wrestle with the wireless router yet again. This time I got spectacularly inconsistent results (as opposed to having it consistently ignore me) and eventually got connections out through it via 10baseT, and even got a PDA[*] to sortakinda connect via WLAN. It was exciting to see the first few lines of my journal appear on the screen ... until it stalled and didn't show the rest of the page. I'll keep trying after a battery recharge.

[*]I was given a Handspring Visor, which I dropped and broke after having gotten sufficiently accustomed to it to depend on it. Then I was given a Sony Clie, which I like better in most respects, Then I was given a wireless Ethernet frob for the broken Visor. Most recently I was given another Visor to try the wireless frob with. The plan is to learn how it works and what it is and is not good for, play with it a while, then decide whether it's a useful enough tool to warrant having two PDAs, or to pass it along to someone even farther behind the curve on modern tech-toys than I am -- basically, to make sure it does somebody some good, rather than gather dust. (Already I find myself wondering whether I can obtain a wireless module for the Clie, but I need to play with a Telnet client on the Visor for a while before I decide whether that's a high priority.) Right now it's the only 802.11 device in the house, though it'll be nice to have the router behaving (and more or less sortakinda secured -- not that I'd expect much war-driving in my neighbourhood, but better safe, eh?) the next time anniemal comes to visit.

SMC 2404WBR "Barricade Turbo" router ... performing DHCP for the machines behind it except the Sun 3/60 (is that looking for some other protocol instead?) ... PalmOS reports a connection to "Generic AP" instead of the name I assigned to it ... very slow connections through it and periods of lag ... ping from a Windows box (10baseT, not wireless) shows about 50% packet loss ...

Seeking clues -- what do I start looking at first for troubleshooting this?