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Router Chaos

FreelancersOffice.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:51:11 +0000

I just spent three days trying to make my router work properly. Very big headache and a mess to get the thing to work right, but in the end I have won the battle. I had to go into the settings for it and reset the thing to factory defaults, then I had to manually reconfigure things to the way they are supposed to be until I had it back up to where it should be and working right. It is working now, though, so I’m happy about that. After three days of fighting it I had determined that maybe it had burned out completely or something. Thankfully it just had to be completely reconfigured from the factory settings up.

Computer back, back to work

FreelancersOffice.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:30:06 +0000

I got my desktop computer back the other day and after some confusion on the HP tech dudes not having completed the setup, something a nice lady at the HP support center helped me finish over the phone, I have got the computer back up and running and have been spending my time getting it reorganized so that I can work on it again.

I have about half the programs reloaded, but am hitting the annoying block of the new version of AIM won’t work with the comptuer. I got an older version to work on it, so I will try agian to get the new one to work and if that fails I am just going to load the older version up and forget their new one. They usually mess up their new versions anyway. Last time they updated it I lost the ability to directly connect with my writing buddies, removing the ability to pass our novel-length writing back and fort, which made AIM all but useless to us.

Other than AIM I have my writing program back on the computer, still need to move the novel from the laptop back to the desktop though, and I have to get my image program (GIMP) back up and working on here. I know there are more programs I need to get up and going, but I’ll be happy with them between now and the weekend – oh, and iTunes and Audacity, I need to catch up on the writing podcasts I have missed.

Office redesign

FreelancersOffice.com — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:57:13 +0000

I’m back into the stage where all I want to do is clean up the office and get the desk and shelves all finished in there so I have everything where it belongs. I sort of stopped on the built-in desk a while back, and I am glad now that I did. I have discovered a certain method to my working that I need to account for in my office, so now I am planning my office desk and cabinetry around the particular needs of my business.

I spent most of the night last night looking up designs and plans for built-in desks and cabinets online, now I am sketching out plans for the way I want to have the office look and matching those to the plans that I have printed out from the built-in cabinets to see what I can come up with for building the office that I need to suit my needs.