Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:04:25 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: mostly on-topic. Message-ID: <20110214030422.GA13410@thought.org>
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Yo guys,
First something offtopic. Even tho it was thanks to help from
members of this list that i was able to publish my novel about a
disabled computer nerd, nobody here bit. i thought at least many of
y'all would buy and share ... but nope. I'd be much obliged for
feedback--OFFLIST. If I ever have to create a typeset-quality doc,
the kind that openoffice tries to create, I'll go with the LaTeX
suite. Re book, it is scheduled to be read on a local book discussion
group. {!!!}
Partly off-topic. I'm sure that hundreds and hundreds remember
when i was having trouble with portupgrades. My streams slowed or
stopped. Steams and web connections and ftp: all flaky. I was _sure_
it was due to things not being kept
current, so I tried for more than a week and the new ports got wedged
or broke. BEsides breaking concrete with my head, once I had most
things working, i Swore that I was going to turn over the hosting to
somebody else. We have the BEST kernel in the known universe;
when there is a Deb/FreeBSD distro [and evverything works], life
will be complete.
Nine days ago, after doing my 4th and 5th reset on my router, it
died. I couldn't see that the LED labeled "INTERNET" wasn't lit.
I have always been very careful with the thing; it is less than five
years old. Nutshell, it took until noon last Monday before thought.org
was reconnected with the Real World. I'm slightly stubborn;
I'll get something working if it means reinstalling and upgrading
the 817 ports on my server. But that did not fix my busted router;
it was toast. I used my speech tools to ask what had gone
wrong with the unit and the technician said: "iT burned out!"
--
Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix
Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org
The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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