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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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24 May 2002 - 10:26 pm
After an hour of struggling with my new cable modem, I finally have the wireless router up and running. Why do ISPs feel the need to rearrange all of the settings on my computer? I had to dig through the registry to remove the "provided by Insightbb.com" tag that Insight added to IE and Outlook Express.
Work has been going well. I've been working on some code to add PDF files into our sql database. It's more challenging than you'd think, as SQL's commands for adding large binary files to databases can only handle files smaller than 120kb, and our files are usually bigger than 300kb. After a bit of work, I've found a library that does what I want, and the evaluation version seems to work just fine, so we'll probably buy the full version next week. My only real complaint about the job is that I sometimes find it hard to drop what I'm working on at four and go home and not really think about my work until 7:30 the next morning (or three days later, in the case of this weekend).
The d-link cable/dsl router and wireless access point that I brought is pretty nice. The wireless works all over the house, even though the access point is hidden away in one of the upper corners of the house. It has a built-in a print server as well, although I don't think we'll use it. Now I just need to get a wireless card for my parent's computer, so that they can use the access point as well.
I found some more pictures to scan, so perhaps I'll scan those in tomorrow. But first I need to find a more permanent place to set up my scanner, because I don't really like having it on my bed.
Posted by on 24 May 2002 at 10:17 PM
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