Sunday, January 18, 2004
Ha ha!
That's all I have to say about not updating, not posting and blah blah blah. But now I am!
Okay so I'm in St. Louis now and I'm trying to get the whole video chat thing to work with my parents. I've used MSN Messenger in the past and NetMeeting. Well you need XP for the video chat to work in MSNMessenger and I found NetMeeting to be a lot more hastle(needing to get ip addresses and all). So I was at the gym a couple days ago and was reading a PC magazine while on the bike. They had a cool article reviewing all different kinds of video chat programs. Well for some reason the names of the two they really liked escaped me but I did remember Yahoo Messenger had a video function and it seemed to work pretty well. So we downloaded that and whalla! It worked on my end anyway. Now Pops just needs to get his camera installed again and get a mic. So fyi my Yahoo Messenger name is DataRez if anyone would like drop me a line. ;-) Now I just need the rest of my friends to get it so I can really put it though it's paces.
On other computer related news, my wireless router went out on me! Well it's been really spotty for a while. I just wasn't getting much distance out of it at all. I'm talking about 10 feet though only 1 regular house wall. So I decided to see if there were any firmware upgrades for it. It being a Linksys Wireless Router 802.11B BEFW11S4 v.2 There was indeed an update for it. So I installed it. Then it wouldn't work at all! So after about a hour of messing with it, I thought I'd just flash the firmware down to an older version that I had in it before that way it'd work at least a little bit. But then it died. :-( Now all I get is the dreaded red light on the front saying "throw it away" (Not really but since the warranty is long expired...) So now I'm down to one PC online for a bit. I'm thinking the switch is still good in it so if I can get another network card I can try to just use Internet Sharing and get the other computers online with a wired network.
Oh the basketball front the Magic are having, shall we say, a bad year. At the begining of the season I was going to post with all my predictions and such. But that'd almost be silly now. I really thought the Magic were going to have a good year. But alas it was not to be. Maybe I'll find those predictions on here somewhere and post them later.
Alright that should be enough for your new '04 fix. There you go, enjoy. ¶ 10:29:00 AM
That's all I have to say about not updating, not posting and blah blah blah. But now I am!
Okay so I'm in St. Louis now and I'm trying to get the whole video chat thing to work with my parents. I've used MSN Messenger in the past and NetMeeting. Well you need XP for the video chat to work in MSNMessenger and I found NetMeeting to be a lot more hastle(needing to get ip addresses and all). So I was at the gym a couple days ago and was reading a PC magazine while on the bike. They had a cool article reviewing all different kinds of video chat programs. Well for some reason the names of the two they really liked escaped me but I did remember Yahoo Messenger had a video function and it seemed to work pretty well. So we downloaded that and whalla! It worked on my end anyway. Now Pops just needs to get his camera installed again and get a mic. So fyi my Yahoo Messenger name is DataRez if anyone would like drop me a line. ;-) Now I just need the rest of my friends to get it so I can really put it though it's paces.
On other computer related news, my wireless router went out on me! Well it's been really spotty for a while. I just wasn't getting much distance out of it at all. I'm talking about 10 feet though only 1 regular house wall. So I decided to see if there were any firmware upgrades for it. It being a Linksys Wireless Router 802.11B BEFW11S4 v.2 There was indeed an update for it. So I installed it. Then it wouldn't work at all! So after about a hour of messing with it, I thought I'd just flash the firmware down to an older version that I had in it before that way it'd work at least a little bit. But then it died. :-( Now all I get is the dreaded red light on the front saying "throw it away" (Not really but since the warranty is long expired...) So now I'm down to one PC online for a bit. I'm thinking the switch is still good in it so if I can get another network card I can try to just use Internet Sharing and get the other computers online with a wired network.
Oh the basketball front the Magic are having, shall we say, a bad year. At the begining of the season I was going to post with all my predictions and such. But that'd almost be silly now. I really thought the Magic were going to have a good year. But alas it was not to be. Maybe I'll find those predictions on here somewhere and post them later.
Alright that should be enough for your new '04 fix. There you go, enjoy. ¶ 10:29:00 AM
