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I was working on some changes to a system I'd written for whirlpool over break tonight, when everything started falling apart around me. My computer gave me a blue-screen-of-death when I hit the refresh button in my browser while trying to view some changes I'd made to a page. When I rebooted, I tried to reconnect to whirlpool's vpn, but every time I connected, the AT&T Global Dialer spit out some kind of database corruption error and shut down. I retired restarting the client umpteen times, and rebooting my laptop who knows who many times, but to no avail. So, I was thinking a reinstall of the software is probably in order. So I go to the site to download a fresh version of the software, when the router here in the apartment goes out. I tried a soft reset, but no luck. So I tried a hard reset, which worked, but wiped out all of the router's settings. Since I was going to have to type all the settings in again, I decided that I might as well drop the new firmware onto the router. I'd downloaded it yesterday, so I didn't need an internet connection to get it. Everything seemed to be going fine after the firmware install, but the wizard that configures the router died halfway through the process, and I couldn't get the router's web admin page to come up in my browser after that. So I did another hard reset, and persuaded the router to let me configure it. Once all the basics (PPPoE, SSID, etc.) were taken care of, I had to take my room apart to find the list of MAC addresses that your computers use and enter all of those into the router. I finally finished about 15 minutes ago. And now I don't have the energy to get the Global Dialer working, so that will have to wait until tomorrow.

Anyway, that's the story that explains why I have three files from whirlpool's web server sitting on my desktop waiting to be uploaded. I just hope I can get the dialer working tomorrow.

Posted by on 10 February 2003 at 3:04 AM