The second DSL order barfed too. I can't get a straight answer out of Verizon (the phone company, not Verizon Online), so I told them both off.firewallMore news on the wireless ISP idea: I called Pure Connection again. After confirming that they don't have service in my area yet, the receptionist (who, considering the small size of the company, might be a technician, or even a manager, I don't know) said she'd bring the idea up with her boss, since this area (meaning, basically, me) is in desperate need of broadband and has no other option.
I figure the least I can do, for their trouble, is give them a tiny bit of free exposure. If you're in the Orlando area and have no other means of broadband access (or, like me, you want to tell Verizon where they can stick it), check them out.
I backed up the hard drive on my firewall (not hard, since it's 250MB out of a 1GB drive). I still haven't reinstalled OpenBSD, but that's mainly because I'm not looking forward to setting up pppd again (it was a major hassle last time).school
I'm four pages into a minimum-ten page paper about the evolution of computerized editing and typesetting, and I still haven't reached the ENIAC yet. This might end up being a 20-page paper.relationshipMy tools: XEmacs and LaTeX. My adversary: M$ Word.
Sigh. Nothing yet. :-(o/~ what do i have to do to make you want me? o/~ -- stabbing westward, "what do i have to do?"