I Fixed A Computer
17
Jul
2006
The headline of this post isn’t newsworthy at all. And the rest of the post is probably not newsworthy to a lot of people who read this blog. But I fixed a computer.
So, to fix it, my laptop connected to my cellphone via Bluetooth, which connected to a celltower via GPRS, which sent my SSH packets over TCP/IP to another university machine inside the firewall, from which I then SSHd to the sick machine, and fixed it. The irony is that the problem was with the machine’s network interface! The latency was nothing to be proud of, but was pretty usable.
This is probably the setup with the maximum number of different devices and protocols that I’ve ever used, hence it warranted a blog post. 
man thats quite the works!
Comment by Supriya — July 18, 2006 @ 10:13 am
Hey, just wanted to tell you, that I had the same phone as displayed on one of your previous entries…and mine broke the exact same way. i too, stuck with Samsung…I love their phones. Must be a defect or something in that particular phone, cuz looking at your picture, i could swear i was looking at my own broken phone…hangin by the wire.
-jenn-
Comment by Jenn — August 16, 2006 @ 5:10 am
Just wanted to say thanks for this. So, when that Doctor of Acupuncture shows up with his tray of needles, inquire first if a Shiatsu practitioner is on call.
Comment by Stormy Ketelaar — August 5, 2010 @ 11:44 pm