breaking and fixing

finally. a day yesterday where i didn’t have to slog down to sunnyvale. so what do i do all day?

i waste it breaking and fixing things. things like:

1. windshield. sure, there was that rock crater, but that was up by the rear view mirror. hell, i couldn’t even see it, so that didn’t count. but then the crack out of the corner was also there, which kept getting longer and longer and longer. and then last weekend i parked on the street and it grew by a FOOT. hmc yelled at me to replace it before it fell off and sliced my head off.

2. cingular 8125. despite my month-long annoyance with the device, i finally tweaked it and installed all these hacks to get it working to an acceptable tolerable level, despite it being pocket pc/windows mobile. so what do i do? i go and install a brand new rom on it off some hacker site. for “improvements”. which is fine, except that wipes out all your settings and programs. ok, so reinstall, no big deal. except now nothing works. especially goodlink, the blackberry functionality of automatically syncing with my work outlook mail and calendar. which is pretty much the whole purpose of the device. oops. it’s unfucked now, and maybe even better, but it took a lot of fucking trouble. and to be honest, i think when it’s all said and done, i really just want a q.

3. cable modem. why? i don’t know. not enough to do, apparently. the guys at work were raving about the incredible speeds they were getting. and finance is cracking down on expense reports, so we can only expense 1/2 our dsl bill. since these damn cable modems claimed to give me 2-3x faster connections at 1/2 the price, i figured why not give it a shot?

speakeasy speed test results

test run	download kbs	upload kbs
speakeasy	1147	590
comcast #1	12370	684
comcast #2	2905	698

i don’t know what was the deal with the first comcast run. that must have been some sort of delusion, or something where they pump up your speeds when you first get connected to make your numbers look good, knowing that the first thing you’ll do is run a speed test. still, it’s over 2x faster down, and a little better up.
i’m sure i’ll regret switching later when my cable modem is down. because my speakeasy dsl is NEVER down. and let’s not talk about the three hours i wasted getting it running in the first place, apparently stymied by this button on the cable modem which is the DO NOT WORK button. i kid you not.

Posted at June 8, 2006 12:27 AM