Dongle Excitement

This little issue began on Friday last week when I realised that the Tyan Thunder motherboard (S2895 K8WE) had no parallel port. Without a parallel port, parallel port dongles for various software applications can't be attached to allow the software to initialise. This is Monday and despite continuing to try and get a PCI-parallel card to 'see' a Microimages MIPS dongle on this M/B, I've had no success. Not even after re-installing the card in three different PCI slots, re-installing the drivers, changing PCI slot settings in the BIOS,re-assigning LPT's 1 through 3. No joy. I ordered another PCI I/O card to see if changing brands would make a difference. You guessed it, the same model card arrived, just with another distributor's label. Excellent. This is becoming exciting. I downloaded the latest Sentinel Protection drivers (ver 7), and that didn't help either. Normally it does.
No, we don't use USB dongles here. To get one from the States is probably going to take over a month. The OS is XP Pro-32 SP2 with all the requisite updates and 2 X AMD Model 270 64-bit dual-core Opterons.The photo is of the PCI I/O card that doesn't allow a dongle to be recognised, along with a Sentinel parallel port dongle, similar to the one I'm trying to have detected. It isn't it's fault...I don't think these two will ever be a couple.

Inner Space

Good morning. These photographs are from the dining area (one of several) in the middle of my building,complete with seal water fountains and the 'forsaken man' as I call him. I slept overnight here and now need to go and hunt for food, but only after this submission.
Monday is imminent. Perhaps others out there also have this .....dread of the big M.

Mercedes-Benz CLK DTM AMG (R/C)

Everything of the best for you this year. It's Saturday 21st January 2006 and the time is 22h26pm. After having a good breakfast at Lanseria Airport's 'Wings Restaurant' I ended up driving to Olifantsfontein, wherever that is in relation to anything else. I managed to end up at Sandton City, without having to resort to hauling out the Garmin... At the Toys R Us, I found a 1:16 radio-controlled Mercedes-Benz AMG CLK for R400.00. I brought it to the office and charged the 6V battery for 5 hours before taking it for a drive on the 18th floor of 55 Marshall. Yes, everybody, you never knew that about me...Here are a couple of pictures of it. P.S. It drives very well.