this girl drives a tank

there is an elephant in the way

Apologies for the lack of blogging over the last week but I have been swamped at my office job and have also been doing bartending at night, plus some gym time in the evenings, so it has been quite hectic. Bear with me for another week or so..

John Clarke wrote to tell me about Network Manager which I installed on my laptop and must say, is quite good at managing wired and wireless connections. It lists any network it can see and simply connects to the one you click on. The only issue I see right off the bat is that you must be inside X Windows to do this, not a major issue but still something to be aware of. (X might fail to load, you need google to figure out the error message, yada yada yada)

Wouter Verhelst, a Debian developer seems not to like Network Manager, he writes:

wouter@anything:~$ sudo ip link set eth0 up
wouter@anything:~$ ip route show
195.144.77.32/28 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 195.144.77.43
wouter@anything:~$ sudo ip route add default via 195.144.77.33
RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable
wouter@anything:~$ ip route show
wouter@anything:~$ apt-get --purge remove network-manager




Yes, this really happened, and no, there were no pauses between the different
commands except for the time needed for me to type them out.

To be honest, I don't really understand what is going on there so I will pretend everything is ok and distract you with an elephant.

Work has been a nightmare. I have to do a technical course on HSDPA. My boss has decided I should understand more about the underlying technology of a cellular phone network. I think he's nuts, but oh well. The course isn't that easy and I find myself a few steps behind the rest of the people in the class as they are mostly all field technicians that work hands on with the radios at our cell sites. It did amuse me to note that the teacher actually cited Wikipedia several times. I felt like going home that evening and editing the the HSDPA page to put an elephant in the way.