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Date: 21/8/2005
| Well, great news (for me anyway), my Mac mini arrived yesterday and I'm an official "switcher"... oh wait... I'm still going to use my windows box. I don't know what that makes me other than confused.
Anyway in protest windows XP has given me the finger and decided to root up the graphics driver. Currently XP won't boot into anything other than vanilla VGA. So I've uninstalled the nVidia drivers and I'm downloading the latest (at a measly 20kb/s *sigh*) drivers hoping that when I reinstall I'll get something more than the screen powering down because of no VGA signal when I boot XP.
So now I have 2 computers the question of networking them and providing net access arises. Obviously it'd be nice to have a broadband router connected up to the cable modem but I don't have one of those (yet). I do have an 8 port switch but I don't know how that would help. 2 computers can't both DHCP into the same cable modem. So I have a flakey 2nd network card for the windows box and a cross over cable so I can do the NAT thing, but of course that means running the noisy PC just to get the silect Mac on the air. Which kinda defeats the purpose doesn't it?
That damn nVidia driver is still downloading *sigh*.
Anyway back to the networking issue, I'm not against buying a broadband router but I'd like to invest in an ADSL broadband router because ADSL is becoming much better value here in .au now that a) there is a lot of competition in the ADSL market and b) the ADSL companies are installing their own DSLAMS in the exchanges to route around the incumbant Telstra monopoly. And I'm in a bit of a pickle because the lovely people at Optus, my current ISP, have hooked our phone line up over the cable network and so we don't have a functional copper pair into the house. It's expensive to get that fixed up and it's very hard to avoid using Telstra to do that. And I'd really prefer to avoid Telstra if at all possible. It seems like it'll cost me in the order of A$500 to get copper hooked up, buy the router and then sign up for ADSL somewhere. A bit painful on the wallet.
There are assorted wireless plans available but they don't hold a candle to the value of the ADSL plans available.
Oh well, rant over. The driver has downloaded... time to go do battle with XP.
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fret
21/08/2005 1:05pm
| Argh!!!! All the current nVidia "english" drivers are actually the russian drivers. |
fret
21/08/2005 1:25pm
| Ok, the whole russian thing is just the driver detecting the current codepage and I hadn't set the codepage back to english after doing some testing in russian.
I've got a usable desktop back after reinstalling the drivers (in english yeee!). |
Ed
22/08/2005 12:06pm
| In Soviet Russia, nVidia drives YOU! Lucky you changed your codepage back :-)
Exetel have good wireless plans... that's what I'm going with. Death to landlines.
512/128kbps @$45/mth with 3gb download and $3/gb excess.
Pity the coverage in your area looks sketchy... |
Bardo
23/08/2005 6:49am
| And the good news, of course, is that we are going to have Scribe ported to the Mac. Those Mac-users 'll be delighted, well, at least I'll be. Finally - apart from beautiful women - something to look forward to!
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