Done with the moving. Done with the painting. Almost done with the unpacking.
And it’s already mid August… 2004 ! (Last time I remember time going by slowly was summer 03… when it was so hot there was nothing you could do but wait for it to end)
Still no DSL access in the new apartment. Why does this have to take so long!? There is no single other procedure in moving that takes that long! Not even the whole organizing, sorting, packing and labelling extravaganza! :crazy:
My new apartment is quite near to my parents’ house actually. When positioning the elements carefully, it’s close enough to use a DECT phone from one place to the other… and of course you would expect that what works for DECT also works for WiFi! Don’t they share the same frequency range anyway?
Oddly enough, 802.11b only works in a slightly shorter range than DECT. No way for me to squat my parent’s DSL from my apartment! Their computer is too far away… and moving it closer to the right side of their house will not only make them kinda angry at my interference, it will probably also unplug the DSL cable from the wall socket, which would defeat the purpose. :-/
I’m using an ad hoc network here. So I came up with this – crazy? – idea of placing my laptop in the middle of the distance to act as a WiFi ad hoc relay! :» I checked: the laptop can see both other computers: the one that I want to use as an Internet router, and the one I want to work on in my apartment. Somehow I had imagined that the ad hoc protocols of 802.11b would relay Ethernet packets across all nodes in the wireless networks… but apparently that was too optimistic! There is no way for me to ping from one end to the other!
The solution would probably be to split the network into two distinct IP networks and setup the laptop as a router between both IP networks. The only problem is that it takes quite a few trips from one house to the other to change parameters and run the tests. After a couple of back and forths I found myself in the desert street, feeling bored and realizing I would not even have time to use that setup before I leave for Germany on Sunday. And when I’ll be back, the DSL should finally be activated too.
I started walking through the streets, just too see if I could still recognize the places I grew up in and left nearly 15 years ago. Attempting that in the dark of night doesn’t really help… but still, it was a nice walk… especially when I pulled out my much anticipated but finally available (and promptly acquired) Sendo X and used the mp3 player to put a soundtrack on my memories. “Moments in Love” by Art of Noise made it just perfect (It lasts 10 minutes!) I gotta remember to get “Lili was here” by Dave Stewart & Candy Dulfer onto that SD card for next time. :D
That kind of reminded me that offline technology can still be very enjoyable too! :»