How to get hang of the Tuesdays

Q: What do you do? when on one particular tuesday, you have woken up late to
realise that a meeting was suppose to start 10 mins. ago, You feel miserable
to read a message from your girfriend saying she forgot to call you
alltogether. then finally in the three hour long meeting find out that the
desing you worked on for last two weeks is a piece of crap and the client
wants you to start from scratch, and even your cdrom drive has failed for
some misterious reason. When you think that world is about to end What? just
what do you do?

Ans: Yell YIEEPPEEEEEEEEEEEEE and go shopping !!!!! (you got to spend that
first paycheck of yours don't you?) FOR HARDWARE .......
Just when i though i can never get hang of tuesdays, i found a way to do just
that.This is an account of this particular tuesday when world (thankfully?)
did not come to an end.

[11:10am] you wake up by a ring of your cell phone. Its a message actually
asking where are you..... Crap i need to hurry up to the meeting.

[11:30] read your girfreind had forgotten you..... :( ah well this must be a
tuesday.

[12:30pm]19 mins into a meeting starts a realisation of a grave fact of life.
It aint fair, infact it aint even close to fair.

[2:30pm] give up. simply give up.... Belgium!!!

[3:30pm] start planning on a new design. Its a huge repeat of two weeks work
and you now have two days for it. am convinced (or rather hoping) that a
vogon constructors fleet is heading this way.

[4:30:01pm] Light bulb moment, you see your dad struggling with getting the
dsl to work on a long ethernet cable.

[4:30:02:01pm] You realise you are yet to touch the first ever payment you
received.

[4:30:02:02pm] You start envisioning a grand network infrastructure, the fears
of vogon fleet are lightywars away.

[4:45pm] Yaaaahooooo!!! you prove your geekerdom and spend the money on a
hoopy neat Wireless hardware.

[5:00pm] hook up the gear and realise that there is latency issue with dsl
connection. Scratch head.......

[5:30pm] forget about the design we still have two days for it. Start
designing a neater network.

[6:00pm] config a m/c as a gateway, and run a trial for the connectivity.
Everything works just smooth, pat yourself and thank linus+debian. Now you
need a dedicated gateway, go to office to fetch some gear......

[7:00pm] come to realise you don't have a cdrom.... to car again to get a
cdrom drive.

[7:30pm] start installing knoppix(what else?) on to a p4 machine, leave to
meet a a friend.

[11:30pm] your are half way drunk, get to the machine. Install is complete.
Put down few scripts to enable masuerade, firewall, auto dsl connection and
ssh setup.

[11:45pm] done you machine reboots with everything setup perfectly well
without manual intervention....... strip the machine off the
keyboard/mouse(yieks)/monitor.

[12:00am] with everything on your local ethernet, boot hte machine wifi and
the two laptops. What a frood you are...... everything is working perfect....
just perfect.

[1:00am] spend few more hours configuring a vpn and securing the wireless leg
of your network

Yahhooooo!!!! tuesday is long gone........
And i am a proud owner of neat network.

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