I’ve been fighting a battle the last few weeks that made me in turns annoyed, full of self doubt and filled with near rage at inanimate objects. It was, kind of, won today.<\/p>\n
I was trying to wire up the offices of my friend’s sheet metal company. I tried wiring scheme after wiring scheme all to no frakkin’ avail. I could NOT get point A to talk to point B. I started to doubt if I even had the skill to put together a simple RJ-45 plug. <\/p>\n
Anyone in computers knows that that is genital removing self doubt right there.<\/p>\n
So this morning, away from the warehouse over at Two Fat Guys Lab I put together a cable, tested it and it worked. Yes, yes, I still knew how to make those. I relaxed in that comfort. I took it to the site and..nothing..something…nothing.<\/p>\n
Then I remembered they were on a funky ISP\/DSL provider that required hardcoded DNS\/GATEWAY\/IPs and bingo! The magic worked!<\/p>\n
\nI swear this job was making me lose it though for a bit. Still don’t know why the previous cabling schema didn’t work though. I need to take a closer look at that building. I think I was getting EF interference from an arc welder or something.<\/p>\n
Sorry…just had to vent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been fighting a battle the last few weeks that made me in turns annoyed, full of self doubt and filled with near rage at inanimate objects. It was, kind of, won today. I was trying to wire up the … Continue reading