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warning: heres something i know positively no one will care about with the possible exception of brian. got the 10/100 switch to replace the 8 port 10 hub i have here. really loud. disconnected one of the 3 fans since it was making crunching sounds. duct taped it to the wall. it works. but only on like 3 ports, likely because of it's previous configuration (managed switch). so then comes the Infinite Quest to Reconfigure the Switch (IQRS) which involved borrowing a serial cable from someone and even installing win2k on the compaq temporarily and erasing the progress i made with my gentoo installation attempt to see if i could find it's ip if it has one based on its mac address or connect to it via the serial. cant get arping to compile in cygwin, since it has 2 dependencies and i couldnt get the dependencies to compile and couldn't figure much out as to why because the errors were in running the configure script and the error message was something along the line of "error" which isnt too helpful. im still new to doing more with linux than just using a preconfigured system. with the multimeter and a bunch of paperclips i concluded that the serial cable is not a straight cable (the switch uses pins 2 and 3 mostly, on the other end of the cable those signals were ending up at pins 4 and 5) and thus the Infinite Quest continues in search of a regular serial cable. and thus maybe the inifite quest wil be closer to terminating. I have a feeling though, that if i do manage to get a console display via the serial cable, it's gonna ask me for a password. I dont have that, and there isnt much of a way of resetting it aside from burning the nvram with a software image for the thing in a rom programmer.. hence the possibility of 'inifinite' on the quest.. it is fast though, for the ports im using it on.

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rerealized I really havent written anything interesting or mildly interesting in like weeks.. months.. i havent really given myself a chance to think creatively in a while, or realy felt the drive to.. which is raher disappointing, I can't let that go away. just havent had a need to, the last time really may have been one of the writing and lit assignments last year. ill have to find time for something after i finish the cs project. maybe the first thing to do then would be manage time a bit better...anyway sleep. have to defeat this habit of not going to sleep before 3am.