Subsistance Farming

There are times that I love IT and Engineering. There are other times like today. There is more on this earlier in the Blog, but I have found some amazing things out.

Firstly, despite what the advertisers say, stay away from riser cards for PC’s, unless they are designed for your mother board. They will not work. And if they do it will not be reliably. I spent MANY hours today attempting to get cards on a riser card to work, and nothing would behave. Not Happy.

Then there are software upgrades which do not work as well as they should. Then my switch decided to only pass packets once I had used a seperate switch between two ports to convince things to work.

Now to top it all off, it looks like my ISP is filtering Active-X Web Components. I would not mind, but that is how I can download Windows Server 2003 as a bootable ISO file. Argh…

Sounds like time to take up farming…