So I get up this morning, and go to log on and I can't connect. So here I am running ipconfig /renew and getting an IP address from My FireCard and wondering WTF? Them I notice the Hydraulic Fluid all over the floor, and I have to look no more, it is a problem with my Router.
First off I am thinking it is a Hydraulic cable leak so I am searching the cables, but no the main power adapter that ran the main pump in the Router gave up. So I went outside to the chipper and got some sawdust and laid down a few inches all over the floor so start soaking up all the Hydraulic Fluid and I went out to shop for a new Router.
Well, I was surprised; they have these new Routers that work with just air, god damn it, no shit! I mean Pneumatics has been around for awhile but the thought of everything just working in the air, I first thought the salesman was whacked out on drugs.
Well it turns out that you have to get new "wireless" couplings for your computer for this in-the-air networking to work, so I bout myself an good old-fashioned Hydraulic Router to replace my old one. My only thought was: "Do I have enough fluid to fire this one up"?
What you have just read is me being silly, it was designed to enhance the reading here that sometimes is quite mundane. The pun here of course being old Routers run on Hydraulics, because you have to string cables, and new ones are wireless or using air such as Pneumatic machinery.
Posted by Muckhead at November 4, 2004 01:13 PM