what sort of music do I like?

shamelessly gacked from thunderbox (and what a splendid icon he has too), I give you the iTunes Signature Maker. Mac users only, I'm afraid, before you all rush to do it.

and here's mine ...

security ...

as detailed in earlier posts, we are the lucky owners of a shiny new Powerbook. We were previously the owners of an older Powerbook, and are still the owners of a wireless router, which was only used by said older Powerbook (henceforth known as OP).

the OP was so old that it couldn't cope with new fangled WEPpery on wireless, so we had to configure up the router with a full huge long WEP key for security. All well and good, you'd think, yes?

but we forgot, and seemed not to have noted, what the WEP key was. And we forgot, and seemed not to have noted, what IP the router was on, so we couldn't talk to it. And we have lost, or never had, the Mac CD for the router, and it's not available for download.

no matter - we have the Windows CD, and so we fired up Virtual PC on the powerbook, and connected all the cables, and ... it didn't work.

so we installed and ran some Windows LAN Sniffer from that interweb thing, on one of Pete's VMWare Windows installs, and found it, at .200 Iwhich is quite logical in our numbering system, now I come to think of it). And we fired a browser at it, and we have made a note of its location in our Wiki, and have changed the password to something easier to remember and type (but not the same as any of our other passwords as we will have to give this to people occasionally), and we have noted *that* in our (password protected) Wiki as well.

and let that be a lesson to you all.

[edit]
in further news, this messing about with the wireless has caused the wireless ethernet inkjet to stop working. I hate technology.

and then we found another wireless network in the street, named JJ, with a password. Got to be the new neighbours - I can't believe anyone else here would have wireless.

the horror

we keep a wicker shopping basket hanging on a hook on the coat rack, and inside that lives a smaller jute bag for light shopping duties.

as I needed to pop out to the bakery and the off licence (for milk and cream, before you all nod in a knowing manner), the small jute bag would suffice.

so I put on my coat, put my hand into the outer bag and *screamed*, as I encountered something quite alien to the jutey texture I was expecting.
( What on earth was it, then? )

inevitable, really

now, *of course*, we cannot get the wireless inkjet to talk to the wireless router.

I hate technology.

2005 in meme

floating around LJ - take the first sentence of the first posting of each month, and bung it in a list ...

1. it's the December 1, so time to break out the default icon for the time of year.


2. 


3. in between getting the new G5* ready for work on Monday, and getting the old G4 ready to go to [info]agc tomorrow, we nipped (or popped, ifyou prefer) to Costco to get a few bits and pieces, then over to Waitrose for a few more bits and pieces.


4. the more I read about the appalling situation in New Orleans, the more depressed I become. This article from The Guardian gives some background into the lack of funding, and what seems to be deliberate and reckless disregard for the views of experts in the field.


5. "Alleged bomb plotter claims two and a half years of interrogation under US and UK supervision in 'ghost prisons' abroad."


6. Steve Bell's cartoon in the Guardian today.


7. we had nice plans for the weekend, including going to a hawking display at Tintern Abbey on the Sunday - it was our sixth wedding anniversary, and that seemed like a nice thing to do to celebrate the day.


8. please, please - go and cast your vote today. If you don't, then you have no right to complain about what we get.


9. seen on landsmand's journal,
   
   
   


10. right - as our ISP / co-lo provider appears to have died for the time being, and I'm bereft of most of the IRC channels I frequent, I have installed an MSN client [shudder].


11. I'm sad to read that Ivan Noble has died.


12. If you would not have met your significant other/spouse etc without the internet, post this sentence in your journal.