Alobar Greywalker: Magickal Record (aka Frater PVN, LA-BAJ-AL)

        Probably a simply remedied problem, but it is driving me nuts.

       I do not want to start my 30 days of free phone support from Dell until I get my shipment of disks so I can do backups before I start messing around.

       All was working fine, then I changed some setting, and now I get no internet. I have been logging on to free unsecured network connection (I can use over a half dozen choices from my apartment). Signal strength is excellent. According to task manager, I have internet connection but my local network is turned off. Windows warns of a conflict with the DNS of my network. Using automated problem fixer in windows yields nothing even remotely close to my problem.

       Dell requires me to tell them my serial number. The number is on the bottom of the laptop, and is in type so tiny that it makes the fine print on a legal contract look positively huge. I could not have read that small type when I was 20, and my eyes are much less able to read small type now, than when I was young.

       Ingenuity is one of my strongpoints. I put the laptop on top of the scanner & scanned at 600dpi. Problem getting a clear scan. Laptop case is not flat on bottom (to allow air circulation), so I got a blurry scan. I fucked around & rotated the laptop so the high ridges were off the scanner. It took me 4 tries, but I got a readable scan.

       For now, my internet connection is by going to the Bastille Internet Cafe.

       Week is forecast to be wet, so taking time off to fix my fuckup is easy to do write now. Weekend crowd was poor. I made $20 working 8 hours on Sunday. So today (cleanup day for the Essence Festival) would probably not be great even if I did work. Usually the day after a festival, there is good business from those who can afford to stay an extra day for sightseeing and shopping.