alexpgp | Computer notes and asides...

When I tried to install a flash memory card into the eSlate's PCMCIA slot down in Houston, the result was not what I expected (a brief pause to install a driver, and then having the flash card appear as a new drive under MyComputer). Instead, it triggered a series of demands for me to install a driver - several times no less - which in the end won't work because the memory it wants to use is already being hogged by something called 'system board extensions for PnP'. What's more, the lack of this driver is keeping my network card from working, so I'm making do with LapLink. I suspect the "cure" for this is to wipe the eSlate clean and reinstall Windows from scratch, but when I next wipe the eSlate, it won't be to install Windows...

It took me a while, but I finally figured out that in order for the "front" machine in the store to hit the Apache server running on the store's "back" machine, the front machine actually has to go out and connect to our local ISP. This smells of a routing table problem to me...

I have a huge job coming in that's going to take a lot of ingenuity to complete on time. Ah, well... Ingenuity 'R' Us.

Cheers...