September 29, 2007
Saturday 11:00 PM
I have 5 computers connected to the switch that is connected to the Earthlink DSL modem. The PowerBook, the Mac G4, the Alienware laptop, the Dell XPR, and Barbara's PC are all cnnected to the Internet through their Ethernet ports. The PowerBook and the G4 can get to networked printers through airport eXtreme and can also get to the Internet wirelessly when charter cable is working. But it is very sporadic in performance.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
September 25, 2007
September 25, 2007
12:20 AM
Yesterday, again, I had poor access to Charter internet and of course the new DSL modem from Earthlink has not arrived yet. I read the preface and the first two chapters of "Learning Together Online." I want to write an extended book review of this book and of "e-Learning and the Science of Instruction," for an article for the November, 2007 issue of Practical Update. Both books are ostensibly based on research but learning together takes a constructivist pov, while e-Learning utilizes research from a positivistic perspective.
10:30 AM
Barbara tried to use the computer this morning, got partway through an online order she was placing and the cable connection dropped. She called Charter and after determining that the upstream channel power level was too low (its 14.0 now and then jumped to 58.0, then 52.0 dBmV). This metric can be accessed by going to http://192.168.100.1 and clicking on the green signal button.
Tomorrow should be a busy day. The cable tech is coming, the new DSL modem should be coming, and a landscaper is going to kill the lawn and errant grasses in preparation for installing a new lawn, with an improved walkway.
12:20 AM
Yesterday, again, I had poor access to Charter internet and of course the new DSL modem from Earthlink has not arrived yet. I read the preface and the first two chapters of "Learning Together Online." I want to write an extended book review of this book and of "e-Learning and the Science of Instruction," for an article for the November, 2007 issue of Practical Update. Both books are ostensibly based on research but learning together takes a constructivist pov, while e-Learning utilizes research from a positivistic perspective.
10:30 AM
Barbara tried to use the computer this morning, got partway through an online order she was placing and the cable connection dropped. She called Charter and after determining that the upstream channel power level was too low (its 14.0 now and then jumped to 58.0, then 52.0 dBmV). This metric can be accessed by going to http://192.168.100.1 and clicking on the green signal button.
Tomorrow should be a busy day. The cable tech is coming, the new DSL modem should be coming, and a landscaper is going to kill the lawn and errant grasses in preparation for installing a new lawn, with an improved walkway.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
September 22, 2007
September 22, 2007
Earthlink DSL modem arrived the 19th, I could not get it to work and called earthlink, they said DSL would be activated by midnight the 20th, so I quit trying until the 21st. Spent most of the day on the phone with Earthlink but no success. Finally, they said a local technician from Quest would come out on Saturday. At 9:30 today Matt came out and could not get the Earthlink modem working. He tried a Qwest modem which worked fine but Qwest would not sell me a modem as I had a contract with Eartlink. Finally Earthlink said they would send a replacement modem in two business days, so I guess that would be Wednesday, September 26.
On another front, the cable modem has been performing poorly - that was the reason I tried to get the DSL line. A Charter technician came out and said we should request another cable line, instead of splitting the line between the family room and the office. On Friday a technician came out and installed two new cable lines. One to the rec room and one to the office. It has improved Internet access somewhat, but is still off too much. In fact, the Internet was not available when I started to write this note on the iPhone.
Earthlink DSL modem arrived the 19th, I could not get it to work and called earthlink, they said DSL would be activated by midnight the 20th, so I quit trying until the 21st. Spent most of the day on the phone with Earthlink but no success. Finally, they said a local technician from Quest would come out on Saturday. At 9:30 today Matt came out and could not get the Earthlink modem working. He tried a Qwest modem which worked fine but Qwest would not sell me a modem as I had a contract with Eartlink. Finally Earthlink said they would send a replacement modem in two business days, so I guess that would be Wednesday, September 26.
On another front, the cable modem has been performing poorly - that was the reason I tried to get the DSL line. A Charter technician came out and said we should request another cable line, instead of splitting the line between the family room and the office. On Friday a technician came out and installed two new cable lines. One to the rec room and one to the office. It has improved Internet access somewhat, but is still off too much. In fact, the Internet was not available when I started to write this note on the iPhone.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
September 8, 2007
It is Saturday night, September 8, 2007, 11:55 PM, so it is almost Sunday. I am not writing this entry on the iPhone but am writing it on the MacBook. Incidentally, the new iPod Touch does not seem to have a Notes program, nor does it seem to have mail. Guess I better stick with the iPhone. I had prepped some movies to put on my iPhone (or iPod) using the Handbrake program. It has a preset for iPods which I used. This created an mp3 file for the movie, a little over 1 gigabyte in size. I double clicked on the movie but it did not go into iTunes but opened up in QuickTime. So I then saved it from QuickTime as an m4v file which took forever, like 24 hours. When I got two movies onto the iPhone for both of them the sound was out of synch with the video. Very disturbing. I then tried importing the mp3 files directly into iTunes, I just selected import under the file menu and it went right into iTunes and did not have any audio/video synchronization problems. I was listening to TWIM today and one of their panel recommended a science fiction novel, Accelerando by Charles Straus. Maybe I should see if that is available on audible.com - also Bruce Sterling has written a novel I have not yet read, Schismatrix. I just read a long review of it in Wikipedia and it does not sound all that interesting.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
September 4, 2007
September 4, 2007
10:42 AM
Another entry for the iPhone blog. This entry was created with Notes on the iPhone, but the only thing you can do with Notes, other than saving them on the iPhone, is to email them. So for this blog, after completing an entry with Notes, I email it to myself and then paste it into a blog page at blogger.com. Today I took a picture of myself, with PhotoBooth on the MacBook, holding up the iPhone and wearing a TWIT cap. I will add this photo to the blog site. I have the MacBook (with GarageBand), set up to record a podcast for my online course on educational research. However instead of doing that I am writing this Note.
What I should do is put the iPhone in its charging cradle and start reading the research article I am going to review in the podcast.
10:42 AM
Another entry for the iPhone blog. This entry was created with Notes on the iPhone, but the only thing you can do with Notes, other than saving them on the iPhone, is to email them. So for this blog, after completing an entry with Notes, I email it to myself and then paste it into a blog page at blogger.com. Today I took a picture of myself, with PhotoBooth on the MacBook, holding up the iPhone and wearing a TWIT cap. I will add this photo to the blog site. I have the MacBook (with GarageBand), set up to record a podcast for my online course on educational research. However instead of doing that I am writing this Note.
What I should do is put the iPhone in its charging cradle and start reading the research article I am going to review in the podcast.
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