Well, After performing very well for the last few years, my Linksys WAG54g ADSL Router is now not much more than a brick.

Over the past few days we have been having intermittent outages of the wired network. (Eg: my servers kept dropping off the network) Wireless and ADSL connection were not effected.

Fortunately my D-Link 504 and my Linksys WRT54g are still in tact so I was able to rebuild the network and bridge my WRT54g and D-Link quickly. (Not what a girl wants to be doing on a Saturday)

I won’t however be buying a new Linksys WAG54g. After a little research it seems to be a common issue. I don’t know if the network was spiked or not but I think I’ll go back to using D-Link hardware. Sorry Linksys.

But this seems to have happened to a lot of people on a lot of occasions. You have lost my business for your network equipment

Well, We’re in Auckland at the moment. We did however arrive a day early.

We were suppose to have been booked into the Lake Front Motor Lodge in Taupo for Tuesday night. Yeah Right. Even after confirming the booking when we got there the moron owner had no record of us and didn’t really seem to care. So much for customer service. We will never stay there again.

We had stayed there previously and enjoyed the time, though as it turns out the people we delt with then were ‘minders’ Well, employ your minders full time. They did a better job than the owners.

Luckily we managed to get into Auckland around 7:30pm on Tuesday night, so it wasn’t too late by the time we got here.

I had to laugh when I saw the two mock ads that came out of a couple of Australian advertising agencies trying to win a TV show competition trying to convince the Australian public as to why they should invade New Zealand.

Personally I liked the one from 303 as it had some nice shots of NZ, though the one from Marmalade did promise a holiday.

I’m not sure how long they will be up but you can see the two ads Here.

Even if your Wireless lan adapter isn’t supported natively by the kernel drivers, there is another method to get drivers installed.

For this you simply need the Windows 9x/XP drivers for your specific adapter. On my system I was installing for the Acer (??) WarpLink 802.11b Adapter. you can use lsusb or lspci to find out the name of your adapter and search for drivers online if you need to.

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So I’m a boots girl…

A girl can never have too many pairs so while we were shopping for some for Sarah I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity when I saw these.

While I’m not exactly short, now I can be taller than dad. hahah..

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When I first installed Fedora 9 I discovered Banshee which I felt was a pretty good media player which had good library facility however I could not get Banshee to see my Ipod shuffle.

I happened to be browsing through the Add/Remove software Multimedia section when I found Amarok.

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Well. It’s too cold to do anything outside, though the sun was shining. What else is there to do. Well me and the kids made some Ginger Bread Men. Well at least that was the plan.

They look more like over fed teddy bears but they don’t taste too bad so I guess that’s a bonus. I can cook up a website but baking is not something I tend to do a lot of.

Though it was good to spend time away from technology, which is something I seem to be doing more often.

Ok, My understanding is that when you are stopped at a red traffic light you stayed stopped until the lights changed to green.

Am I wrong on this. I don’t really want to test it. But today we had someone do just that.

We were sitting at a red light with a car next to us turning right who was also stopped, or so we thought. It was as though the driver had fallen asleep with an automatic car and their foot had come off the break. Before we knew it. This car was half way through the bloody intersection. Stunned all Sarah & I could do was look at each other shaking our heads laughing. I don’t know what the people in the car behind them thought.

Now, It is fortunate that there was no traffic coming from the opposite direction or this could have been a serious accident. Do people not take their lives seriously. Hell, we’ve even had a TV advertising campaign about taking risks at intersections. I just don’t get the mentallity of some drivers. As it was we were there for a good minute before the lights turned green.