| Monday
July 1, 2001
It's column week on top of PCEXPO plus there is fiction to
do. At least things are not dull. Column will have reflections on
wireless, the Microsoft lawsuit, and other such matters.
And I've got a sea of mail, surface and electronic, to
deal with...
 I am convinced
that I have a problem with my connections. FTP should not periodically
stop in the middle of transmitting a file, and hang up for long periods of
time. I could believe it was Pair for a while, but not when it happens
this often. SOMETHING IS WRONG HERE, probably Ricochet or the security
stuff in my Linux box. I am getting weary of the technology getting
in the way of getting my job done. I can't think when I am always worrying
about the silly stuff. If it is pair.com or the internet and it will fix
itself later I need to know that.
But for the moment I can't even post this.
I think I will turn off Ricochet entirely and see what
happens.
I am now connected through my old NetWinder and 56K modem,
and FTP works perfectly. I'll try a few iterations but it's pretty clear
the problem is in the Ricochet system either delays after it leaves here
and before it hits the Internet or trying to get out of here. Since
outlook mail and even everquest works nicely and it is ftp that gets in
trouble, my guess is in firewall settings.
It gives me something to write about, but I am really
getting weary of fighting the alligators. I want to build a building not
fight alligators.
I have turned the Ricochet box back on but of course the
system probably still believes that the way out is through the NetWinder.
Almost certainly ftp is still connected that way, and it is working just
fine now. I will shortly close it and try connecting again.
And immediately I have problems. Ftp does NOT want to
connect properly. It doesn't close the program right, I am always getting
error messages, and in general it is not working. The firewalls have made
me so secure I cannot ftp files...
Interestingly enough SOMETIMES it works. I have no
patterns observed though. As for instance, I closed the program and
started it again, and NOW it seems to work fine.
No it doesn't. I can't change directories. I could, now I
can't. And I am getting error messages again. To send this I will have to
turn off the Ricochet antenna. What is happening is that the Ricochet
firewall is not letting confirming signals through and I get receive
errors. Or something. Sigh. Fighting the alligators again.
And now it works again. Something random, but I did not
have to turn off the Ricochet. Sigh. Now it's working fine. And now it's
hanging. Clearly there is some kind of signal from ftp that it can't cope
with. Now it works again. Feh.
You can see my PCEXP stuff at www.byte.com
and in particular there is a photoessay at
http://www.byte.com/documents/s=724/byt20010626s0002/pcexpo_photoessay.html
that may be amusing.
And ftp is working perfectly again. I sure d0n't
understand this stuff very well.
And Ricochet just filed for bankruptcy. It's still
running, but how long does that go on? Well, we knew it was a bit shaky,
and the concept is sound. Someone will take over the assets. As to the
glitches, I am not the only one.
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