6 Oct 12

Went to the home show. Found several places with tankless water heaters. I think we've got two places we want to talk to about getting one installed at some point. Found a place with the same sort of doors we want, tho it sounds like they don't do installation. So we'd have to figure that out. I think we'll get euroline out to give some hard numbers and then decide if we want to keep looking.

Got home, and the internet was flaking as usual. Called comcast. They suggested it's probably the three-year-old cable modem flaking out. We can get a new one. Turns out, I can drive up to 128th and Aurora and get one /right now/. I got home with it and got it activated /three minutes/ before the OReilly/Stewart debate was scheduled to start... and, of course, the website was crushed under the traffic. So I still didn't get to watch. Been catching up on TDS/TCR instead.

Interesting thing about the new cable modem.. it's got phone ports. I have phone service on my cable line, whether I want it or not. I've been trying to figure out what, if anything, I could put on a dialup bbs to make it worth running.

Addendum

I've been fighting with Mintaka for a few days.

See, it came with the OS installed on one 500gb drive, and a second, 500gb drive with nothing useful on it.

I wanted to Raid1 the drives. But that means reinstalling the OS. Turns out it has a recovery partition that's perfect for this. Boot into that. Raid the drives.

Oops, it deleted the recovery partition. Now it can't install the OS. No problem! There's Internet Recovery!

-5010F(12)

This error doesn't exist anywhere on apple.com, except one post that asking what it means that got no useful answers.

Over and over, on both networks, -5010F. grrr..

Fine, there's a tool to make a usb recovery disk. Did that. "will contact apple to make sure", ok.. "Can't find this machine. Contact applecare.". Fuck you.

I'll take it yo the apple store, toss it on the desk, and say "just reinstall it.". *sigh*