Michael P. O'Connor

Tonight I tried to take some pictures of my aquarium but I could not get any good lighting for it. I have the normal light for the tank, then I put around it 2 of my lamps and that still was not enough light, the camera was saying it needed 1/8 of a second for the shutter speed, I went into my closet where I had a 150w bulb and put that in my lamp. That helped a bit but still the camera wanted 1/10 of a second for the shutter speed. I would like to gets some good pictures of my fish but I just need to figure out how to get more light into the tank, I might have to want till spring and summer when the sun is higher in the sky and might shed more light into my apartment that I might get to use. But for now I got some OK pictures of my tank, they are not great since the shutter was open for such a long time and the fish moved during that time.

I would like to have access to my iTunes music Library at work. I make it a point to buy my music on my home computer, but then I have to go though all the problem of uploading and manually syncing the 2 libraries. I understand why Apple has disabled the internet sharing, because there were scum out there that were abusing it and they ruined it for every one else. It would be nice if apple offered some way to sync 2 computers (one work and one home) music collections. Maybe if I could ever get a VPN setup for my home network I could VPN into my home computer and then have access as if I were on the home network, but for now that is just a pipe dream.

Well verizon still has not gotten my DSL connect it been 23 days now, well over the 2 weeks promised. So I decided to call Comcast (the local cable company) and see how much it would be to get cable internet. They said that they could have it in tomorrow, and that they have a slot for noon to 4 open. So I decided to get it, and they were also having a “sale” on the installation fee, instead of the $200 setup fee it was only $20. Not waved like I would love to have had, but still a major reduction. I also made sure I could use Linux and told them I do not have windows. So I signed up, and then called verizon to cancel the DSL and since I only have land line service because I had to have it for the DSL, I canceled the land line too. The only problem with cable service is that it is actually cheaper to have it with some cable service, so I got a $12 basic cable, I am just a bit afraid that I might watch to much TV. Some one suggested a good idea; they said I don’t have to hook up the TV to the cable. I am tempted to do that.

So I called in. I got connected to some one, that then talked to some one in “engineering” (what ever that means) But I was told that I should have my DSL service up and running on Tuesday. Let’s see if Verizon can keep this date.

Right now I am doing a evil thing, I am doing an internet sharing of a dial up connection. The reason I am doing this is because I never though of putting a modem in my Linux box. Only my windows box has a modem, and there are things I just can not do on windows that I would like to do. So I have windows connected to the net and sharing the connection. It is painfully slow, but I have internet connection now, it is better then nothing.