5 October 2001
Last year: The convention center was enormous. Bigger than enormous. Enormously enormous.
Wonderful. I'm working on a project which relies heavily on an RF network, so my collection of handheld devices (I'm up to four different handhelds on my desk right now) can talk to the server. The access point - that is, the base station that collect the RF signals and relays them to the computer - is not responding. I can connect to it through a serial cable, but I can't ping it, even from the computer it's plugged into, much less from the handhelds.
It's not the hardware; we got a new box and plugged it in. The network isn't down; we can ping other computers on the network and across the internet. Diagnostics recognize the network card that the access point is plugged into, and even pick up the access point's I.P. address. But for some reason, it doesn't want to talk.
Oh, and the guy in the office who knows the most about networks and networking and VPNs and these things... Is taking today off to make the long weekend a bit longer.
Not that it's a real problem, since he'd exhausted his store of suggestions before he left yesterday. For half an hour before we both gave up, we were just sitting in front of the access point and the server. "Okay, try it now..." Like that. We weren't really trying anything new.
I don't know what the heck I'm going to do today. Go back and work on documentation, I suppose. Clean up my desk, perhaps - it's a real pit.
I am happy and content in my well-paying job...
Thank the gods for long weekends. I just have to get through today...
Word of the Day:
foursquare - 1: square; 2: marked by boldness and conviction, forthright
Current Projects:
- drawing
- Hall stuff
- garden