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# Now I can't connect from anywhere
So, that part of my life is done. Apart from consultancy work for perhaps a couple of hours a week for the next month or so, my employment at $company is now over.
Oh yeah…
$company.dispose(); $company = new Company();Friday was a good day, or at least it was for me. I’m sure not so much for everyone staying behind. Everyone went out for lunch, at which it was revealed to me that I eat too much barramundi – I ordered it at lunch and when it arrived I saw money changing hands between two ex-coworkers. They had made a bet I would order it.
The $clients sent me a gift package. When it first arrived I looked at it thinking “Why would they be sending me more work now when I’m fucking leaving?!?”. It was a bottle of wine though and numerous gift-type foodstuffs – biscotti, truffles (the chocolate not the fungus), chilli, conserves and the like. Well, at least I made a favourable impression on them.
D convinced me that I needed to buy myself a “new job present”. I had almost six weeks of annual leave built up when I left which made for a very tidy payout, thank-you-very-much, so I figured I might as well buy something. I bought a wireless router and two wifi cards for the desktop computers and one for the notebook.
sigh What is it about me and hardware. Or configuation? Infrastructure in general. I must emit some field that causes the simplest of things to become infitely and painfully complex. From what I can tell, I have – or rather had – a working wi-fi network but the router and the modem were not talking to each other. They are both D-Link devices, so perhaps there is some family melodrama that I was unaware of going on here, some fussin’ and feudin’ between the router and the ADSL modem branches.
I say “had” because Pre offered advise which I tried to follow but with my usual lack of ability. He told me to turn off DHCP on the modem and to make it an access point. So I turned off DHCP and sorta went “Huh?” at the other. Suddenly, I couldn’t even connect to the network, which is no fucking surprise, I suppose, since the computer was now unconnected to any device handing out IP addresses, so it default to whatever it is windows defaults to…169.192.*?
I hate hardware.
