Tue Dec 4 08:25:34 PST 2001

Well, the WAN was down, but a 20min call to Speakeasy fixed that problem. It was the same issue as I had on 11/28 and it’s working just fine again. Unfortunately, they didn’t write a decent log the last time it was down so it was unclear how they fixed the problem. This time the support person promised to write a decent log on how she fixed it so it won’t take nearly as long if the problem comes back.

Also I got my coders cable for my dreamcast as well as the VGA box from Lik-Sang. I had to go down to the mail distribution center to get it for some reason (it sure looked like it would fit in my mailbox) but that wasn’t a big deal since we went out to lunch and Brian knew where it was.

The cable is rather obviously a partial hack. The voltage conversion chip and caps are on a small pcb board wrapped in plastic. No big deal really, I’m just happy to have it. The VGA adapter is great, it has not only VGA out and a 1/8 inch sterio jack, but also it has RCA jacks for audio out, composite out and a s-video out. Moreover, they included an s-video cable and a 3-set of RCA for composite video and left/right audio. Heck, the cables alone are nearly worth the $13 I paid for it.

Unfortunately, I probably won’t get to play with it tonight since I’ll be at Bible study most of the evening. It will probably take me a while to get them both talking PPP to each other correctly. I think that the DC linux distribution is set up to use the serial port as a console by default, so it’s pretty likely that I’ll need to burn a new CD with some changes to run PPP over the link instead.