RE: Isn't life grand!

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

What more could you want?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 February 2002 18:21
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Isn't life grand!
>
>
> 	The Mark and Mary Harrison "ukha" lifestyle is certainly
coming
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> together!
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> 	After 6 months in the wilderness of only accessing the Internet
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> from work, or from Mary's PC on her company's (slow) RAS, I'm
> back with:
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>
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> 	- An ISDN connection to tiscali
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> 	- A Linux-based firewall sharing the connection
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> 	- A CAT5 network holding together my PC (in my study), Mary's PC
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> (in hers), the firewall (in hers) and the laptop (in our bedroom)
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>
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> 	Not only that, but upstairs I'm listening to music on the DDAR,
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> and downstairs Mary's listening to something different on the
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> Tiger-supplier Rio DAR in her study.
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>
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> 	There've been a few network problems over the last couple of
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> days, as a result of which the DARs weren't working, but getting the
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> Linux firewall working in place of WIN2k connection sharing (which was
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> causing the problems) has fixed that.
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>
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> 	So, having been downstairs to reboot the DARs, I come back up to
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> the landing... I see through the door of my study that they have all
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> gone dark blue, indicating that they're all chatting to the server...
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> and as I sit down at my desk, the lights come on.
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> 	A fast internet connection, MP3 music on demand, and a bottle of
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> red wine... how much better does life get?
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> 	So, thanks to, in no particular order, to: Phil Harris (for
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> getting me to finally install the CAT5), James Hoye and Paul
> Wooton (for
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> actually installing it), Graham Howe (for sorting out the round-1
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> DDARs), Keith Doxey (for the KAT5 modules that pipe the rear channel
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> audio to the back of the room), Tim Morris (for persuading me that the
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> Meridian route was the path of righteousness), Ian Bird (for the beam
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> break stuff sitting in front of me waiting to be installed), Keiran
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> Broadfoot (for planting the seeds of a home automation paradigm that
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> reacted to me, rather than just to my key-presses!)
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>
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> 	But mostly to:
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>
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> 	- Mark McCall, for making me realise that there were people
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> apart from me interested in all this back in '98
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>
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> 	- Mary Harrison, for not only putting up with this, but actively
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> helping on everything from pulling cables to installing device drivers
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> under Linux.
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> 	Provision of the bottle of red wine was all my own work ;-)
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> 	Regards,
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> 	Mark
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