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Tuesday March 14, 2006 At home my wife got fed up with the fan noise from our main home computer ( generic AMD pc running solaris 10) so I had to move the computer. So I acquired some sunray hardware and a couple of ethernet to wireless bridges, installed sunray software 3.1 on the server and away we went. The DTU screen and keyboard are in the lounge where the adsl line comes in, the server is off in a distant room with only 802.11g between them.
This worked but screen refresh was slooow - video just didn't work, time for a change. So I bought a couple of ethernet over mains units - 85 Mbits/sec, just plug them in, wait a few seconds and they just worked. The only problem is that the configuration software that you need to change the passwords and set a encryption key is windows only, although the vendor says that the signal doesn't go through the meter I am not convinced ( could someone explain that?)... But now the sunray screen updates really fast so that was a good thing to do.
I have to admit to not having ridden as much as I should of before Xmas, but now I have sold my Smart car I have to ride to get to work. Working from home does not work well in our house as I don't have a separate office so I get distracted, so its ride/walk. I could try the bus, I made it home once on the bus, it took 2 changes, 1 hour and about 4 pounds in fares but it did take me to within a 100 yards of my house.
Back to the point, my winter bike ( the cart horse) had its first puncture last night, a bit dissapointing that it has only done about 800 miles. I wonder if there is a coincidence that I used a bit of tatty cycle path yesterday.
there are some good photos of Cleo and Finn on Alec Muffett's blog