It must have either happened during Farscape or one of the Buffys, because when I got home from work today, there was still no signal on the cable box. When I came back in the bedroom a few minutes ago, the signal light was active. With great anticipation, I plugged in an ethernet cable and ran dhcpcd eth1. Preso!

Different IP address. Different network. An apt-get upgrade is clocking me at around 100K/sec, while ftp.mozilla.org is only 15K/s (ouch compared to before). Hmmm... not quite the throughput of the old network, it would appear, based on that sampling. Not by a longshot. Oh well. Still a hell of a lot faster than a modem.

On the plus side, latency is virtually non-existent. In fact, in that regard, it seems even faster than it was on the old @home network. At least on rage, and accessing slashdot. 15ms. Not bad at all. Maybe it's just me though, since I've been getting accustomed to the pain dialup for several days now. Whew!

And on Slashdot, we see this. All I can say to @home is good riddance, we hardly knew thee. Probably just as well they're going bye bye. What a crappy way to handle things. Cutting off customers abruptly just because their stupid lawyers and accountants get in a pissing contest. While I can understand that the bondholders want to get their money back, it's hard to have sympathy for anyone who would intentionally chop off internet access for millions of people. If this incident causes their investment returns to be even smaller than they would have otherwise, they are getting what they deserve. Bastards.

That's the "pissed off at having broadband cut off for 4" days part of me speaking.

While AT&T may have had a hand in the events leading up to the outage, at least they got another network up and going in a matter of days. No small feat, I would imagine.

Online again, Argo. Online again.

In other news, Bitscape^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Luke blew the Death Star away last night. Then it's on to protect the rebel convoy on its way to Hoth. I haven't yet mastered that one. The last of the transports always get blown away when we go through the cloud nebula. One of these days, Luke... One of these days.

$silly_cliche_phrase, $name. $silly_cliche_phrase.

Meanwhile, I now seem to be getting addicted to the nightly on-air broadcasts of Farscape season 3, despite the fact that I have not yet seen the majority of season 2. It's very odd. I have the episodes on my hard drive, which I can watch at my leisure, but somehow, it's psychologically easier to watch something that's on tv at a specific, preprogrammed time every day/week. Very odd indeed. Perhaps this indicates a lack of initiative on my part. The initiative to type 'mplayer filename'. lol. Pathetic, I know.

The Han Solo / Leia theme background music running through my head, the net at large on a newly restored cable connection, and a bunch of strange little monkies who spend their entire lives encased in clear glass spheres; all these things vie for my attention. Therefore, this rambling will end momentarily. But which, oh which, shall I choose for my next activity?

Maybe I'll just type mplayer instead.