Fuck IE7 and it’s CSS support (or rather lack thereof). Having discovered Greasemonkey and some other useful Firefox extensions, I see less reason for anyone to use IE than ever.

I’ve decided: Netgear Sucks.

The cable modem that TimeWarner provides is unbranded, but if you look into it, you discover that it’s made by Netgear. It also randomly stops working, so I seem to have to power-cycle the damned thing once a day. Now, it’s possible that it’s actually a problem with the internet connection, TW’s fault instead of Netgear’s, and I would agree, except…

We also use a Netgear WPN824 “RangeMax” 802.11g router. One of the features of this model is that it has a translucent circular “window” that has a bunch of LEDs in it, which apparently is what they decided to focus on instead of more important things. Like, you know, having it work properly. I set up the router’s DHCP server to assign a specific IP to my Ubuntu machine, but wouldn’t you know, somehow it seems every time the IP gets renewed, it ends up not being the IP that it’s supposed to get. The MAC address is right, the device name is right, but it just won’t give it the right IP. So I end up having to configure the computer to always request the bloody IP that the router’s supposed to assign to it automatically.

Why is the static local IP important? Because it’s my webserver, and any requests on port 80 is forwarded to that IP. Which is fine… except the router randomly stops forwarding it, and I have to go into the router admin page and refresh settings to get it to work again. In fact, I had to do that while typing up this rant.

I wish I could say this was an isolated case, but this isn’t the first time I’ve had problems with a Netgear router either. =/

I guess all I can do is make sure I never buy another one… but I still have to ask, WTF is so bloody hard about making a router? The technology’s been around forever, and I know the costs are falling, but god dammit, I’d gladly pay twice as much for a router that just always worked.

Out with the old, in with the new (software) and less-old (hardware).

Then: Athlon 900, KT133, 384MB PC133, Fedora Core 3, MovableType, random system freezes FTL. =(
Now: Pentium 4 2.4C, 875P, 512MB DDR400, Ubuntu 6.10, WordPress, reliability FTW. =)

As for why? Well, a web server that can I can actually count on running is a good thing…

I had thought about adding all the stuff from the old MT site, but decided it wasn’t worth it. The old sections (Profile, etc) will be back though, as soon as I finish working on them.