Swear words.

[c9]

Lots and lots of swear words. Rude ones. Plus, in honour of Easter, several religious ones in French.

The router firmware update fixed whatever corruption was causing the issue. How surreal.

Now it's all good.

The lesson kids, is to give up. Murphy's Law will then bound to the rescue. I used to use that trick to make my bus come on those -34 days in Ottawa.

Comments

[saviolo.livejournal.com]

The pudding trick! Remember the pudding trick, Cam?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Ummm.... not clearly. That rings a bell though.

[saviolo.livejournal.com]

It was winter one year. We were on lunch from school, and we went to... not Place de Ville... the other one down on Bank St... anyway, we were waiting for the 85 to come by to get back to school, and it just wasn't coming. So I said "Watch this, I'll open my pudding (in my lunch), and the bus'll come." And sure enough, I opened it, and the bus came. I think we used that trick three or four times!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh of course! I remembered that it brought the bus, and that I sometimes had pudding in *my* lunch, but not the details.

[iambic-cub.livejournal.com]

I once had a French coworker who would leave French swear words taped on broken printers. Because they were in French, he could get away with it.

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Ah man, you never told us you hadn't updated the firware on your router! The only thing better than power-cycling a router, is upgrading the firmware and power-cycling the router. ;-)

Glad your problem seems to be fixed. My parents came up for easter and on return to their home they found their machine toast. My brother was uninstalling a whole bunch of stuff and now Windows won't even boot (its giving the error message that its shutting itself down so damage will not occur). On the plus side, I now have a workbench in my basement and I got a lot of the baby's room painted (well walls all primed, and two coats on the ceiling finished).

[c9.livejournal.com]

Hey now, don't pin this on me! I told you everything I did, so clearly it's your fault for not suggesting a firmware upgrade!

(also, it never crossed my mind since one machine could still access everything. It's like the MAC-address-specific routing table (if there is such a thing) was corrupted.)

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to be surprised, but part of me knows that wireless routers are the voodoo dolls of the computer world. Maybe they work, maybe they don't, but they're mysterious and a little creepy.

[c9.livejournal.com]

I remember your similar views on Partition Magic. :)

[simplisticton.livejournal.com]

My feelings are the same for all technologies I don't trust :)

[c9.livejournal.com]

I know about half of those, but was not aware it was considered grammatically correct to chain them all together using "de" :)

I also know "tabernouche," the "I'm not really swearing" swear word. :)