7 Jul 2000 Bryce   » (Master)

Thursday

The control for the cable box acted up horribly last night. From what I can gather, it looks like either there is a dry solder joint on the control pad or it's been misused and refurbished with a crack in the keypad tracking. The upshot being that 5, 7, 8, 9, 0 and a few other important keys don't work. I'll need to hassle Time Warner about this. Then again I appear to have every possible channel they provide now even though I signed up for the HBO channels only ... ummmm

A further annoyance is that the cable box has a cable in and cable out connector for the VCR, what it doesn't do is allow the orignal cable feed through so the VCR is completely bloody useless to record anything. Now I'm aware that I'll have to aquire one of these IR 'mouse' modules for the cablebox to control the VCR, but dear god, what a messy setup. I now have

Finally Wachovia got their act together and have reissued the home banking password for my account aving spent months buggering around giving different excuses. The excuse I got this time was 'The post office said the address was wrong' which is odd because I've been getting statements from them since day one to the correct address. Muppets.

On the way back from the bank I noticed that petrol prices have started to fall, evn if only marginally (down 2cents/gal). THATS something you'd be unlikely to see in the UK.

I have upgraded the kernel from 2.2.14 -> 2.2.16 on ZenII, however, I seem to have killed the machine 8/. I suspect it hung on going down or worse the ATX powersupply may have turned itself off. So I guess a 'magic finger' is required. *mutter*.

SteveC gets the 'man of the moment' award for rebooting the box (30 minutes later). As it turns out, although I'd built the RAID options in the 2.2.16 kernel I was blissfully unaware that the RAID in use was based on mingo's RAID patches. Consequently when the box rebooted, it attempted to load the RAID and choked. Bugger...
I've since pulled those patches down and built a new kernel, however, given how late it is in the UK I've held of on another reboot if only to let SteveC get some sleep. SteveC is off to the UKUUG for the next couple of days so I guess a reboot won't be on the cards till monday.

Need to buy some food so didn't stay at work beyond 21:15

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