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I am so loving this work-from-home thing. I hadn't set it up for over a year as I live only four miles from the office. I'm lazy, but I'm not THAT lazy. However, a few weeks ago I had some sort of fever thing, and custom dictated I decline to exercise my coworkers' immune systems, so I got set up. Boy do I love it.
I just now connected up for maybe a half hour - forty minutes TOPS - and I accomplished something I'd been trying to do for days. I got that @#$!ing @$$ piece of $#!^ -- ahem, I mean the excellent Ethernet physical-interface chip I work with, it's just stubborn, yeah -- to autonegotiate. If you don't do Ethernet work, feel free to ignore this, and if you do, you can go ahead and Marvell that it took this long to get the dang thing to do it. Should be pretty basic, right? Heh.
Well, it's working now.
That's a relief, because I was starting to think that when my boss returns from his trip Tuesday morning I was going to have to fall on my pocketknife to atone for the utter dishonor of having failed at this task. Phew. Glad I don't have to do that. Pocketknife's a slow death.
I just now connected up for maybe a half hour - forty minutes TOPS - and I accomplished something I'd been trying to do for days. I got that @#$!ing @$$ piece of $#!^ -- ahem, I mean the excellent Ethernet physical-interface chip I work with, it's just stubborn, yeah -- to autonegotiate. If you don't do Ethernet work, feel free to ignore this, and if you do, you can go ahead and Marvell that it took this long to get the dang thing to do it. Should be pretty basic, right? Heh.
Well, it's working now.
That's a relief, because I was starting to think that when my boss returns from his trip Tuesday morning I was going to have to fall on my pocketknife to atone for the utter dishonor of having failed at this task. Phew. Glad I don't have to do that. Pocketknife's a slow death.
Such language!
Ooh, dirty word, dirty word!
Well, to me at least. Not that I'd expect you and the other escapees from Hell town to care in the least, nor could I blame you especially.
Of course, if you used one of our phys...well, I certainly don't understand them, so who knows how long it would take. I'm impressed that you can get one of the stupid things working regardless of who made it. It certainly keeps UNH busy making them do anything useful.
Re: Such language!
So how bad is Hell town these days? (Insert sympathetic and commiserating facial expression here.)
Re: Such language!
I'll save the rest of my latest adventures in Hell town for tomorrow, so you and Allan can perhaps enjoy it simultaneously.
Re: Such language!