Not much to go on from that weekend.\u00a0 That marked the third weekend in my recent spate of oncalls, so I hunkered down in the dark and waited for the inevitable pages.\u00a0 And they came, so I wasn’t disappointed.\u00a0 Most of my time was spent on various dorky tasks about the house, so about all I can do is re-tell my computer-related exploits.\u00a0 It’s a pretty safe bet most of you couldn’t care less about those, so if you want to just quit reading now and go back to sleep, that’s OK.<\/p>\n
Don’t believe me?\u00a0 Well, here goes.\u00a0 And who knows, maybe somebody will find some interesting tidbit in here.\u00a0 (Doubtful.)\u00a0 Friday evening I stayed up way-too-late working on my wireless network.\u00a0 I bought a used wireless router from a guy at work last week, with the original plan of just having a spare in case I messed mine up.\u00a0 (Again.)\u00a0 But, unable to stand the thought of having something sitting in the closet gathering dust, I instead embarked on an exciting mission to implement WDS<\/a> between my two routers.\u00a0 The first struggle in this project was to pick an alternate firmware for the routers, one that would support the WDS feature as well as my rather unique firewall setup.\u00a0 After a perilous and ultimately unsuccessful struggle with Tomato<\/a> and HyperWRT<\/a>, I finally found network nirvana with DD-WRT<\/a>.\u00a0 When I finally called it a night, I had achieved my goal of having an “excellent” wireless signal anywhere in the house, and most likely half-way up the block.\u00a0 On the downside our wireless doorbell and light switches no longer work, and there is a slight tingling sensation from all the waves in the air, but you gotta have priorities I suppose.<\/p>\n Saturday, still flushed with the excitement of the evening before, I started on a project to install Linux on our laptop.\u00a0 This was my first attempt at using a machine solely with a Linux O\/S, no dual-boot or virtual machine crap.\u00a0 I decided on the relatively user-friendly Ubuntu<\/a> distribution, brewed a pot of coffee, and went to work.\u00a0 Ultimately this was a relatively easy undertaking;\u00a0 With the exception of having to install a new wireless card I would honestly say it’s an easier process than installing Windows.\u00a0 So far I’m quite pleased with the results;\u00a0 It’s fast, easy, and most importantly comes pre-installed with a fancy Sudoku game.\u00a0 What more could you ask for?\u00a0 After that, Donette’s parents came over and dropped off their<\/em> laptop, which had fallen into an unfortunate condition not unlike the one ours was in.\u00a0 I doubt they would have liked the Linux look though, so I went about installing good ol’ Windows back on theirs.\u00a0 First though, I wanted to try and salvage some of their data, so I hopped on the scooter and took off for the geek-mecca of the west, Microcenter<\/a>.\u00a0 I searched out the skinniest sales guy, with the thickest glasses, told him what I was trying to do, and he recommended a 2.5″ drive case<\/a>.\u00a0 The price was right, so I picked it up and scootered back home.\u00a0 It got the job done, but it turned out to be pretty much a piece of crap.\u00a0 The directions were almost as bad as the build quality too.\u00a0 These were the instructions:<\/p>\n Q1:\u00a0 I could see the icon at the right down comer on the screen, but I still couldn’t find my external HDD. Q2:\u00a0 Why I couldn’t find my enclosure at all? Wow.\u00a0 Those aren’t typo’s either, that’s actually what it said.\u00a0 “This problem mostly couldn’t solve the problem”??!!\u00a0 Long as it worked, I guess.<\/p>\n Sunday, since I was sorta tethered to my laptop with the whole work thing, the Martins came over to do a little barbecuing.\u00a0 We decided to practice a few chicken recipes, since our team poultry-guy has forsaken us.\u00a0 I went with a simple marinade and dry-rub method, while Martin opted for a much more elaborate basting scheme.\u00a0 At the end of the day, everyone agreed the basted bird was to be our “official” entry at Kearney next weekend.\u00a0 The only downside was his somewhat aggressive basting technique, but I won’t complain about it.\u00a0 Somehow, in addition to a liberal application on the chicken, he also basted my patio furniture, the smoker, the deck, the sliding glass door, and one of the dogs.\u00a0 I’m not complaining though.\u00a0 The chicken was good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Not much to go on from that weekend.\u00a0 That marked the third weekend in my recent spate of oncalls, so I hunkered down in the dark and waited for the inevitable pages.\u00a0 And they came, so I wasn’t disappointed.\u00a0 Most of my time was spent on various dorky tasks about the house, so about all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA1:\u00a0 Please make sure your HDD has been installed correctly.<\/p>\n
\nA2:\u00a0 This situation somethings happens to some notebook models.\u00a0 This problem mostly couldn’t solve the problem, please buy a AC power adaptor to offer sufficient power for enclosure.<\/p>\n