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[cabbitzilla]

So I'd just settled in to chat with someone, when the DSL modem starts losing synch. It did that, about every twenty minutes or so, for about and hour... after which it went out completely. Given the past performance with Verizon, this was hardly a shock, so I hooked my little headset phone up and rang TechSupport.

And found out that, oddly enough, the problem seemed to be on -my- end this time. Hrm. Much fiddling about ensued, with me crawling hither and yon in the magical realm of 'Under the Desk'. In the process, I managed to yank the power cord out of the KVM -and- the DSL modem. I snaked the wires back up and plugged 'em in randomly; they use virtually identical power feeds. And suddenly the DSL was working, and the KVM was going nuts.

Well, that answered that. But with the KVM down, -nothing- here is usable... so the good power feed went back to the KVM. This morning, on the way back from dropping Megan at work, I picked up a new power adapter for the DSL modem... it's now routed through the UPS that a wonderful person sent me, along with the G3. And I'm back up on the air again. Woo.

Laundry's rolling. When it goes into the dryer, I need to wash my hair again; apparently I didn't get all the soap out this morning. Ah well. Anyway, that's what's going on here.

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[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

So.. you use more then one computer there? What all do you have?

Inquiring geeks need to know.

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

• Athlon Slot A Thunderbird 950 Enhanced on a Gigabyte GA-7IXE main. 512MB RAM, Voodoo 3 video, SoundBlaster Live, 3.5" & 5.25" floppy drives, Zip250 internal, 3 6gb Segate DiamondMax drives, 32x CDROM - loaded into a tower that stands almost three feet tall. Windows NT Server 4
• Athlon Socket A XP 2000+ clocked at 1.8ghz (1.67ghz factory) on an ECS main. 640MB RAM, GeForce4 440MX, Hercules Game Theater 7.1, combo 3.5" & 5.25" floppy drive, Philips 16x4x2 CD burner, Sony DVDROM, IBM 30gb and Maxtor 40gb IDE drives. Windows XP Professional
• Apple PowerMac G3/400mhz Blue & White, video upgraded to ATI Radeon Stealth. 640MB RAM, running OS X 10.3.5. My baby.
• There're also three low end laptops and a Pentium II 350 that run Fedora Core 1.

< / geek >

[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

Daymn, what do u do with all that? :-)

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

NT machine handles small game archives for installing on the other Win32 boxen. Windows XP/Athlon XP system is big games (RO, D2) and DVD ripping and re-encoding. Mac G3 is my everyday machine, and also is the mp3 server on the LAN... and the router... and the DHCP server. P-II 350 in my bedroom is for the late nights when I can't sleep and need something; most of what's on it are writing projects of mine. The laptops, depending on where I'm going, are loaded with any combination of the above.... but the best of them is a P-II 266. :p

Yes. I'm a geek. :p

[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

I guess so.. LOL

Me, I have my sole "ancient" (Circa 1999) PIII 500Mhz, w/256MB ECC SDRAM, 20GB HDD (almost full) original DVD & CD-R/RW drives, SoundBlaster Live! and it's Running Win2k w/SP 3. I'm about to add either Mandrake 10.0 or SuSE 9.1 Professional to it as well and dual boot.

But if/when I ever get Social Security Disability, it will be a huge 1st check as it will be retroactive to last November. At that time I'm gonna buy myself something on the order of this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/angrykeyboarder/30006.html) :-)

So I'm a geek, just not nearly as much of one as you. :-)

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

I hope your paperwork for SSDI was started prior to Jan 1, 2003, love... anything after that is no longer eligable for back monies, courtesy of the arsemunches in congress that decided they wanted to vote themselves another huge pay increase.

Also... for the payout on SSDI... figure the monthly figure is going to be 1/4 -> 3/8 of your prior income; I went from a 42k/year job to a just under 11k SSDI check. It may be that it's a flat rate that has nothing to do with income; I honestly don't have that information where I can get to it. I just knot that the loss of most of my income was crippling; the long term result is that we're losing the house.

[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

Uhh..no. only last month....

And when I tried this a number of years ago (and ultimately was denied - but about that time I went back to work anyway) I was told I'd get $1200.00 a month.

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

Erf. My original estimate was just under $1800/month... what I got was -half- of that. Talk to a lawyer, love. I was denied twice before they finally granted my claime; just under two years without income only to discover I was only alotted a quarter of what I'd been used to.

I was less than pleased.

[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

I think I'll just go crawl in a hole now....

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
No. Wrong answer. That's what Social Security is counting on; the process is so obnoxious that folks will give up no matter how justified the claim is. Never give up, never surrender. Talk to a lawyer; for SSDI claims a lot of attorneys will push back their bill until your claim is finally approved, and they're a God sent ally when it comes to the reams of repetitive paperwork involved. Trust me.
*hugs*

[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

Well this process has only barely begun, it will be several months before they make a decision.

My "crawl into a hole" remark was regarding the news that I won't get retroactive pay. I was counting on that money and quite upset that I won't be seeing it now.

[elisabeth.livejournal.com]

'm sorry, sweetie. But I figured it'd be best to warn you -now-, before you're committed to paying things off and find out that there's no retro pay. :/

*hugs*

[angrykeyboarder.livejournal.com]

Yeah well the only real plan I had for the "windfall" was replacing my computer. I guess I'm stuck with this thing till it's truly a dinosaur.