Internet went down shortly after 6 am and I don’t have the information from the home owner (he’s still asleep) to phone them and find out what is going on. No storm, the power is on and Shaw cable TV is working too so hopefully it is just a short outage and can get back to reading the morning funny pages, might as well blog something.
Have a new house sitting gig coming up at the end of the month for a couple weeks, and some more animals to take care of to go with it. Guessing that is a common scenario as the easiest way to not disrupt the lives of your pets is to let them be, and after finding out what the local dog boarding house charges per day am charging myself out accordingly.
The location is not nearly so close to the job at the building centre so glad that is only three days a week instead of five. Also means the Mazda GLC needs to have what ever needs to be done to it done if possible – between the dogs and the part time job are more than a few hills and the first one is a real doozy.
LOL! Turns out that on this HP Pavilion there is a switch at the front of the case that allows you to physically turn on and off the wireless card separate from eth0 and the wireless connection. After rebooting into Vista and not having any wireless connection there but okay on the ethernet cable as Kubuntu was, the crinkles in the forehead came out. The hardware is too new and had a real good burn in, so started looking for configuration problems but every corner turned brought up all the information expected except that wireless was disabled. My only problem was inadvertently flipping the switch at the front of the case while adjusting the laptop sitting on the table. Apparently it’s a fairly common thing with laptops, learn something new everyday.