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Moving finished (sort of)

written by Mickey on 2007-05-20

I'm writing this post from within the new office room in our new appartement. Obviously the move is now over, although the new appartment is a mess and a lot of stuff is still missing and/or waiting for construction, i.e. the kitchen is scheduled to arrive mid-june :-(

The last couple of days were a bit of a horror story. Telephony and DSL were scheduled to arrive @ 18th, which they did -- however not on the proper socket... the plug in the souterrain / office is scheduled to be attached to all the network hardware. It took me about 6 hours to find that out... now all the equipment is (temporarily! my wife is very unhapy with all this) sitting in the hall and I had to establish a wireless bridge to get my computers in the office to the network (luckily I had an unused Linksys WRT54GS sitting in one of my boxes).

Next thing that happened was that my Linux workstation refused to boot. It auto-powered off one second after pushing power. I had to deassemble and reassemble it completely -- removing about 2 kilograms of dust from the fans and then it ran again.

However, the integrated network adapter no longer appeared on the PCI bus *sigh*. Again -- luckily -- I had an unused USB-Ethernet adapter laying around and so after 3 days messing around I can start being productive again.

And of course all of this while the OpenMoko project is in an important phase... once all these temporary problems are sorted out, I promise I won't move for at least another decade... ;-)