Bits and bobs

I’ve lost my camera, somehow. It used to live on my desk in the study, and yesterday I wanted to take a picture and didn’t see it. I have torn the house apart and can’t find it. HWMBO has promised to help find it, but it’s just another annoyance among many. I suspect it was tidied away when we had our little dinner party last week. I hope to be able to find it. If not, I suppose the opportunity to buy a new one looms.

The problems I had with my Internet Bridge have been solved! and We have as a houseguest for a week. I am always happy to see Chaz; he’s exuberant, witty, fun, and very accomplished. He brings presents of peanut butter and smokehouse almonds for HWMBO, and adobo seasoning and Irish Spring soap for me. But he also brings his expertise.

Now I’ve posted before about my iMac and the travails I went through to upgrade it. I cannot find where I posted about my travails with the internet bridge that I was using to connect to my WiFi from the spare bedroom upstairs, but I’m sure I did. Tags are a beyotch sometimes.

In any case, about a year ago I went to turn on the iMac and it stubbornly refused to connect to the Internet. As the Internet is made of cats, I just assumed that something was wrong with the connection or the internet bridge. I tried everything I could to connect, but not being a Mac-head, I couldn’t get it to connect. I bought other hardware and tried that. No dice. I considered connecting up the room with ethernet cable. I never got around to that. Meanwhile, the iMac was stubbornly accusing me every time I went into the room.

When arrived, I pleaded (well, maybe not pleaded, but nearly) with him to take a look at it. He worked on it at intervals, and finally discovered that, far from being something wrong with the internet bridge, it was something wrong with the iMac’s software. I was gobsmacked. Figuring this out did not take Mac-itude, it took networkitude, and Chaz has it in spades. So I now have an upgraded original iMac that connects to the internet through the bridge. I am quite pleased, and look forward to playing with it at intervals in the future and learning more about it.

Next iMac-connected task: replace the onboard backup battery. As is usual, it’s not a PC-type “hearing aid” battery, but a 1/2AA 3.7V battery that even Maplin on the Strand didn’t have in stock. I have ordered one online, and with postage it came to more than

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2 Responses to “Bits and bobs”

  1. rsc says:
    20/08/2010 at 10:43 pm

    I wanted to intentionally misspell a word above and it won’t let me, whatever I do.

    Won’t let you? I used to use Semagic back when I was a Windozer, and I don’t recall it ever insisting on correcting my spelling. Do you maybe have some setting set the wrong way?

  2. chrishansenhome says:
    20/08/2010 at 10:49 pm

    I’m sure there is some setting I can set. However, at that particular moment I couldn’t have been less arsed to find it. I did a cursory search and couldn’t find anything, and Semagic help was written and indexed by the Spawn of Satan.

    I will do it presently. I’ll never be able to refer to “teh Intarwebz” again unless I get it to accept that I really really do want to write “teh” instead of “the”.