Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac

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I did say I forgot to bring a switch last weekend. I usually have a small switch in my car (never know when you'll need one), but it's still early so the car is jam packed with stuff we take TO the summer place (and of course half of it comes back again every time) - so I had to take all MY stuff out to make room. No switch - it's in a bag I took out. Still had my cat-5 tester and tone generator though - you would have been really amused watching me try to figure out why our satellite tv wasn't working using only that :-)

Sure, I could have gotten in my car and driven 30 miles - we're out in the sticks on top of a mountain.. but the whole point of taking the weekend off and going away is not to do things like that.. we lived with it for one weekend and I've tucked a little switch in the trunk for this weekend..

But the point really isn't how lazy I am - it's how crappy Windows is that it gets all bent out of shape by something as simple as this. Really I think Microsoft programmers lack a clue sometimes.. disconnecting a cable and reconnecting, and ESPECIALLY when you get the same ip address, shouldn't even cause a burp. But on Windows it does..

Oh, and the satellite dish.. still doesn't work. I know the deck shifts over the winter (frost heaves), but I realigned the puppy and leveled and plumbed it, replaced the cable, reset everything - no joy. And not a peep out of the signal meter no matter where I pointed it. Now I hear that major sunspot activity might be knocking out some satellites - I just arranged for a service tech to come out; I'm going to be ticked if the bird was not talking and that nothing I did would have helped.. good thing the dsl worked..

-- Tony Lawrence