With Geek Power comes Geek Responsibility

[elfs]

Now that I have a laptop powerful enough to operate a modern mail client like Thunderbird, I've been able to sort through my email without the painful delays that were such a part of the problem in the past. I discovered, to my shame, that there were nearly forty emails in the "Junk" section that I should have seen but never had. I get over 150 spams a day, and sorting through them is a pain in the ass, so now I'm going back and filtering through all of the email sent to me in 2005.

Omaha and I have been having a terrible problem with the network here. The people at Speakeasy think it's power-related; we have filthy power down here in Burien, and at night the drainage and spikes become so bad that someone, somewhere on the network, is creating so much noise we lose any reliable packet transmissions. It's very frustrating.

Oh, and I did get the infra-red port on the laptop working: I can now communicate with my Palm V, but when I try to use the remote-control protocol for reading any kind of IR remote, I get a kernel panic. Mega-bad.