Archive for October, 2007
EDIT (1/25/07) - I've received a lot of comments and emails with questions about what I did to get my Comcast internet to work properly. I actually wrote a follow-up entry, Follow-up On Comcast's Netgear CG814WG. If you read that entry, I list two products I currently use in lieu of the Netgear piece of crap. My internet has been flawless since I posted that entry (the end of October) and I haven't had any issues at all (other than someone unplugging the router on me or something.) If you still are having problems or need advice, leave a comment on either entry and I'll be more than happy to try to help you out.
In August we finally made the switch to Comcast for our internet, tv , and phone. And unfortunately we've been having horrible problems with Comcast's internet service then I care to think about. The problem was originally both tv cable and internet cable. The cable on the TV would skip, scramble, lose audio, and just time out when trying to open up on-demand. The internet would lag, die off, then connect again. Turns out we had a bad line coming to the house. No problem, Comcast came out to fix the issue with a brand new line, and things were back to working properly.
For the past two months, the new problem has been this piece of crap cable modem gateway (cable modem + router). According to their support page, Netgear doesn't even support the model, CG814WG, because the vendors have flashed their own firmware onto the hardware. I knew that before hand though, because I went to log into the router and was greeted with a GUI for dummies. Essentially the only options I could change was the WPA/WEP key, port forwarding, parental controls, and DMZ. I couldn't even change the IP of the unit itself, which was conflicting with another computer on my network. Ridiculous!
Anyway, the problem I'm having is that the router will continually drop a signal, and then pick it back up again. Talk about annoying! I know when it's going to happen because I'm not able to open any websites--they all just time out on me. It gets worse when there are more people are on the internet, and we usually have about 3 people connected, which is a paltry number, but nonetheless.
Googling around for the CG814WG model shows that it's a piece of crap in general. When you google for "Comcast CG814WG" the results are all about how the piece of crap isn't working for them. They all have the same problem. It reboots itself constantly leaving problems if you're connected to a game, say Halo 3 (which has been my problem. I've lost 9EXP and ranking from dropping out of ranked games because of the connection.)
Today I have finally had it with the piece of shit. I wanted to hop on the 360 before work to play a quick game of Halo 3, and things were fine at first. I got matched with a team, and just as we got the map to play on, the other players dropped out which means that my connection lagged and I got kicked from the ranked game. Bye bye EXP.
Later on I'm going out to buy the D-Link DCM202 and I'll just hook up my old Linksys WRT54G to get going. Instead of going wirelessly for the Xbox 360, I think I'll just go ahead and return the wifi adapter. I've ordered two Netgear XE102 Powerline Adapters so that I can go wired with the unit. Even though I know the wireless issue will be resolved when I replace the unit, I'd rather go wired for the Xbox 360. I can't handle losing any more EXP points when I'm not even leaving the team.
Here's a big Fuck you to Comcast's shitty firmware that ruined the hardware and rendered it absofuckinglutely useless.
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What would you do if your ex-boyfriend from almost two years ago "remails" you a letter that his current girlfriend wrote to you? Do you just toss it into the trashcan? Or do you do something with it?
Jordan,
I hope that when
you grow up
you can forgive
yourself for being
absolutely
awful
as a kid... xo
I opted for the option to do something with it. Now mind you, I haven't been with this ex-boyfriend in almost one and a half years, so it's not something that bothered me. Although I do find it hilarious that his girlfriend is so bothered with my [non]existence that she took the time to do this. The most effort I put towards her was disliking her very existence about two years ago. She was sending Chris these pathetic letters, and some weird fucked up puppet. I knew she was bad news for any relationship.
Though I suppose I should explain why the letter was no surprise to me. About a year or so ago, I befriended Amanda. She happened to date Chris shortly after I moved out of the apartment in June of 2006. They were having problems, so I was there to console her and give her needed advice. Chris has this tendency to channel his inability to remain faithful, to the internet. So it was only a matter of time until that happened to her as it did with me. This affair was with Kat the Krude. I felt protective of Amanda for some reason, so I went to her rescue when Kat was trying to smear Amanda's name.
I believe this is what struck Kat the Krude's nerve with me, and left her with pent up hatred towards me. In February of this year, Amanda was telling me about how Kat was writing some letters to us, and was going to include some Chicago Bears stickers. Amanda and I joked about what we would do if we got the letters, but fortunately for me, at that time I never received it.
Now it's October 23rd and my mom hands me a letter. My address was comparable to the penmanship of a first grader, but I ignored the return address and the post office routing information. I opened the envelope and staring back at me was a ransom'esque letter that could have only been created by that of a fucking loony bat. I glanced at the return address,Ashford, CT, and then noticed the routing information, Louisville, KY. It was easy to deduce that either Chris finally mailed this puppy off, or Kat the Krap noticed her pathetic excuse of a boyfriend never sent it to me and decided to do it for him, EIGHT MONTHS LATER.
So, when I receive a letter from an ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend, I laugh. Then I get a ligher, ashtray, and sandwich baggy. Then I set the letter on fire, bag up the ashes, and then mail it back to the ex, to hand off to whomever he pleases. Okay, the real answer was that I did it because I knew it would make a great blog post, but I figured they'll get a kick out of it when I mail it back.
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I normally don't like to lurk too much on Livejournal. I'll start off with two tabs open, and not even 30 minutes later I've got 10+ tabs open for different communities, posts, and comment threads. Since I was pretty bored, I decided to venture into my friend's filter, Webdev. One of the entries I ended up coming across on the first page was made to the community webdesign.
The poster, cyclotron, had asked how he could add to <body> element, without making the content between <body></body> uneditable in Dreamweaver. The question is paraphrased as I can no longer access the original entry. I skimmed through some of the comments and essentially most of the replies were asking/making fun of him for using Dreamweaver.
I decided to go ahead and give some advice--albeit it wasn't in relation to Dreamweaver, but seeing as I've got experience with this, I figured it could do him some good. I told him that instead of taking the extra time to ruin an otherwise gorgeous design, to go charge the client a predetermined amount of support hours that can be used to make changes to the coding. This way the client doesn't have to work with material he's unaware of, and so he wouldn't have to turn the designs into absolute crap.
Apparently this advice just pisses this guy off.
Thank you for your input. But I didn't mention anywhere that I want an alternate solution to using DW templates, I want a solution using
Dreamweaver's template functions. I am not asking for an apraisal of Dreamweaver's value or usefulness to web development. Nor do I am I asking for business advice. I am asking specifically for Dreamweaver advice. I do appreciate your input but I am baffled why so many people are trying to convince me to do things their way and completely avoid the question I asked. Adobe Contribute depends on DW templates. A web maintenance contract is not the situation here.
So of course I tell him that this is the internet; You can't whine about people giving you advice that doesn't pertain to the subject. If you can't accept that it's inevitable, then don't post it. He's obviously steaming over the original comment that, ZOMG doesn't have any relation to DREAMwEaVerZ!!!, so his next response is even more bitter.
Whine? You say I am whine because you offer advice that conmtains "I honestly can't help you with your problem, as I've never used DW ever in my life..." So why even both replying? You advice DOESNT APPLY. Sheeesh, you people come in with anything BUT useful comments and you say I am whining!? I bent over backward to be polite to. Thanks for the returned favor.
Apparently giving him advice on how to avoid having to "Dreamweaverize" his work for his "fool" of a client has no correlation whatsoever. Well, I'll be damned. And here *I* was the one being polite to him, despite the fact that he bitched and moaned to everyone else that gave him advice, albeit not the solution, but advice nonetheless.
I went to go to the entry to reply, only to see that he had deleted it. Well, well, looks like someone wasn't able to handle the hotness that is teh internets. So, I decided it was time to troll a little bit, and head on over to his personal journal. I wanted to get a glimpse into this person who is to adamant upon Dreamweaver's godliness. Boy, was I in for a real shocker! First of all his website, •Buy A Pixel, Build A House• is hosted on Geocities. I hadn't even clicked on the link, so I had no doubt that I would be in for a real shocker. Indeedly doo! He's begging on the internet for complete strangers to donate to him so he can buy a house. I guess his Dreamweaver coding isn't too hot?
The best was finding that he wrote about the entry he created over at the community.
I swear.. I asked in a comm for some technical help using Dreamweaver and the only people who are replying are those stupid elite fucks who say real web developers don't use time saving software and their features that prevent the client from fucking it up later.
One guy who replied doesn't even know how to use DW so I replied "You don't even know how to use the application!?" To which a third party replied "DW isn't vital to the internet." True, but knowledge of DW is vital for giving replies to my question. Dumbasses.
...And then one lowlife comes over here to my personal journal and reads my post from last night about a song and vibrating gonads and comments over back in the comm about. Then continues to rant about how elitist web developers don't need Dreamweaver.
Cyclotron @ Livejournal (Copy is saved to server; Po' Baby deleted the original entries. Sob!)
Now I can finally relax! My design woes are solved. I can use Dreamweaver to speed up the amount of time it takes to get a design pumped out. I'll just have to sacrifice semantics, accessibility, and hell, a decent design.
But what, the juicyness doesn't stop right there! He made a post today too!
No wonder our country is messed up. No one ever addresses the actual problem. ...I just got advice for that Dreamweaver thing again. Instead of making something with Dreamweaver work, the latest advice is to sell someone web maintenance hours!? How does that even address or fix an issue of getting software to do what your want it to do???
Cyclotron @ Livejournal (Copy is saved to server; Po' Baby deleted the original entries. Sob!)
I Dont fucking care what you have to say. You cant help me. You proved that you are some rude and arrogant fuck who would rather charge clients more money than do the job properly - and give people complete BS for advice.
Why did you bother to go out of your way to be mean and rude to me!? And then you invade m y personal journal to continue to attack me? How
fucking small are you!? Idid I mention your name here? No one knew it was you.
Cyclotron @ Livejournal [Deleted Comment] (Copy is saved to server; Po' Baby deleted the original entries. Sob!)
Needless to say, this proved for quite entertaining. I have no doubts that he actually uses Dreamweaver on a regular basis, and only used that excuse to compensate for his lack of actual skills.
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It's hard to believe that in a few short months it's going to be 2008. Normally it's felt like each month goes by slowly, and the next year never seemed to approach. I partially blame high school for the feeling, because each day was dreaded so I'm sure that didn't help. Now I just can't believe that it's already October. I swear I just remember thinking "Summer is here," and how the thought of 2008 seemed far away.
I'm not sure what 2008 is going to have waiting for me. I've been debating holding off on school again, as there are times when I feel so busy during the week that I don't want anything extra. Mark pretty much told me to stick with school, so no doubt I'll end up listening to him as I usually do! :P I just feel so busy during the week. Here's what my typical work-week looks like:
Monday - Thursday (Only difference with Friday is I have no class)
- 9-11am: Get to work
- 12:30pm: Go to lunch
- 2-2:30pm: Pick up sister from school, and drop her off. Drive back to work.
- 5:30pm: Leave work to go home
- 6-6:20pm: Drop off laptop, pick up books, make a quick dinner.
- 7-10pm: In class working.
- 10:30pm-midnight: Try to get other work done, maybe chat with friends, watch tv. Bed
- 10:30pm-2am (Thursday): At Durbin's with my friends for drinks
There are some days when I'm really just too tired to do anything. I really don't do much right now. Thursdays are usually the night I'll go out, otherwise my friends know that Friday nights I like to dedicate to finishing up homework and any extra work I might have. Weekends are typically free and lately have been just hanging out with Mark doing whatever.
Other than that things have been really good. I still love work. School is so-so right now. My webdesign online course started 3 weeks early, resulting in me missing my first assignment and test. I'm really pissed off about it, but have yet to express that to the teacher. I'm finding it hard to focus on it because it's way too fucking easy. I mean, so far I've "learned" how to create link, "bookmark" links, unordered lists, and DOCTYPES. Which probably explains why I have 5/12 tests done thus far.
Time to go back to coding, and sippin' on my Jamba Juice smoothie.
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