Jamie
Thanks for getting back to me. This is a long winded rant (and, I hope,
a little humorous) on the state of this perennial n00b.
Hey, you asked "why!"
A couple of unrelated points (sort of inductive logic) lead to my
conclusion.
1) I guess the way that items are posted has changed and I must have
missed it.
Example: (as it was explained to me) now when a person posts it doesn't
show up till someone replies or something like that.
2) I hadn't been posting for a while after been somewhat fried over my
wireless solution (not that I post much because I am out of my league.)
Sidenote: my wireless solution
I skipped Garl's omni-directional indoor antenna w/o cable extension
(or not shown, leaving me wondering if it was extra $) in favor of
D-link's DWL-M60AT 2.4GHz Directional Indoor Antenna because: a) I
didn't know jack about Reverse SMA cabling, dBi gain, etc. b) I was
chicken sh*t scared after going through a couple of wireless adapters
(and the expense) with no improvement, so I played it safe by buying an
antenna that was rated for my adapter (same company with a compatibility
chart and everything.)
In order to make it work I passed the antenna cable through the wall,
where the co-axial cable normally would be, and mounted the antenna to
the exterior wall; thereby ricocheting signal off the house across the
street and into my adjoining neighbor's house, where the wireless router
sits in the living room. Presto, 54 Mbps and signal strength excellent;
BUT when I use my wireless 2.4 GHz phone I drop off the Internet,
because...my wireless antenna and the phone's base station are on the
same vertical axis and operating at the same frequency. Great!
Oh, and the other half of the equation (why the other adapters didn't
work...intermittently) was what Ben mentioned about congestion. There's
a school that is 100 times farther away then the router I'm trying to
tie into, BUT I have direct line-of-sight to the school and every
weekday the French class, etc., would kick in. Between that, the switch
from WEP to WPA, my dinking around without documentation, multiple
computers (some marginal) and multiple locations I was completely toast!
Furthermore, I'll be spazzing all summer during any rainstorm
because...my antenna is not rated for external use and is not grounded,
BUT its worth it! At lease now I can go onto YouTube and watch Leftist
Propaganda or Le Grand Content, located under the animations category
(highly recommended!) Given that I am f*cking paying for half the
monthly Internet bill (nothing like an itch you can't scratch!)
Of course, this isn't anything you folks don't do on a daily basis. I
would like to thank you all for putting up with me and offering
suggestions. Garl, for pushing me off the cliff, without a parachute,
(I needed that...because I was struggling with spending more money...I
don't think 4 dBi gain would have done it, but you got me started
again.) Ben, for the congestion suggestion. Jamie, for the planes,
trains, and automobiles suggestion (sensitivity of wireless networks in
general.) Bob, for the Cat 5 point (can't do that for liability and
other reasons.) And anyone else who chimed in!
End of story...back to main topic
3) My switch to gmail had hidden side-effects associated with
case-sensitivity, i.e. bilbobaggab vs. BilboBaggab, and I noted (a month
later) that I was having trouble receiving email from family back East
till I had them use the latter address.
4) Meanwhile, I reloaded my OS, on the said computer w/ wireless
solution, and started setting up my email accounts and letting people
know my new address, BUT, since I went to the on-line gmail page, to
read the how-to on porting gmail through Thunderbird, and subsequently
used the email box name shown at my account page (I double-downed I had
the Thunderbird account setting screwed up with said case issue also.)
5) Everywhere on my gmail account page shows the lower case version,
except in the account details, and I assumed incorrectly. Thus, sending
out the wrong address (or did I?!!! (see #9))
6) The case-sensitivity side-effect was deceptive: I was sending and
receiving mail from some people, BUT in some cases I was sending but not
receiving (see #3) and when my only post to this group in months (see
#2) failed to show up I entered the Twilight Zone.
7) I went into my ELUG account and tried to fix things, but I got put on
hold (due to the catch22 of unauthorized user modification and email
address authentication feedback) or something like that (I am not
criticizing, just a little PTSD on my part.)
8) Then I bounced off Ben to contact the group and he helped out (some
defining, a little hand-holding, suggesting to re-subscribe.)
9) I chased my tail a bit, then I re-subscribed. I made certain that I
used the mixed case box address, BUT its all lower case...again!
10) I needed to post an original message (see #1) and I didn't have
anything much to say, except...hey...if your going to do some house
cleaning might as well get rid of [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that duplicate
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thats why. Have a nice day! (I hope this was good for a laugh)
If you got this far I would like someone's take on the Feb 26, 07
Newsweek article on the "gift economy" and open source software, pg.
51. This is effecting my business strategy.
Brian
LinuxRocks! wrote:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:37:15PM -0800, B. Gallagher wrote:
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:37:15 -0800
To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]>
From: "B. Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Eug-lug] Mr O mentioned some website cleanup
To Larry (or Ed)
Might as well remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] and bilbobaggab.
???? why?
Jamie
Thanks
Brian
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