So yet again computer fated
To make my life all complicated:
Modem lights were showing, yet,
There was just no internet;
Tried out all the usual tricks,
Nothing would the problem fix.
Help centre phone just rang and rang,
I showed a fang and uttered, ‘Dang!’
But finally I did get through,
To hold on in the usual queue,
Until a real live human came
To ask my number and my name.
And then, to get back on the net,
The protocol, to be reset,
Turned out to be what was required –
Though what it was that first inspired
The wretched thing itself to change
I really find most passing strange!
And why the internet should get
Formality and etiquette –
Which is what protocol entails –
My reasoning and logic fails!
A million emails now I’ve got,
And comments on the blog, a lot!
With all of that, I greatly fear
I won’t catch up before next year …
_
Oh, by the way, do be a dear
And go and vote for someone here!
My desk’s the really cluttered mess –
You may not like that one, I guess?
But, if you do, perhaps I can
Do better than an also-ran!
© February 2013 Colonialist (WordPress)
Brilliant little rhyme Col, thanks for giving us something to smile about because there’s not much smiling going on when my internet goes down.
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When that happens my grin becomes a grimace, too!
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You will never be an also-ran! 🙂 I love your poem, and my favorite observation is about protocol and etiquette–very clever.
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All ego-boosters are gratefully received!
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In fact, to those who may be wondering, the picture was taken at the instant R took quite a difficult catch. But then, there was never any secret of the fact that there was a catch in it. heeheeheeheehee
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Catching I’d say…oh what would I do with no internet??? 😉
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Actually, you are right.
It is irritating.in the egg stream!
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an explanation
There are a limited number of ‘ IP addresses’ -sets of numbers divided into 4 portions. The design of this was done BEFORE it was realised just HOW MANY internet devices each would have. So when you connect to the internet your service provider’s smart system allocates your machine an adress from a pool, first seeing if it can give you back the address you had previously.
but occasionally – either by mistake or because some hacker CAN do so there are 2 pc’s with the same internet IP address (IP just stands for internet protocol). This means that there is confusion created when pc’s and servers are trying to communicate. To sort this out one of the pc’s needs to say I don’t need this address any more, and ask for a fresh one to be issued. Hence the ipconfig/release and ipconfig/renew commands.
That was all internet protocol V4’s addressing model. there was no V5 model functioning. the V6 model has a far larger and more complex method for allocatng addresses, and few companies have it working really well unless it is a ‘closed environment’.
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Eek! My head is sore!
No, I think I follow … sort of.
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hehehe
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that is the simple version, i can give you the full technicolour technical one as well if you like,…..
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*shudders* No, thanks awfully, but that’ll do fine! Or I might respond with a lecture on the more intricate aspects of counterpoint. 🙂
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Then i would be obliged to sing?
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I can sympathise with you, Col. I came back from my trip to find that, somehow during my absence, with no one around, my internet had stopped working. It couldn’t have happened at a worse time! Took me 3 days to fix with my brother’s help on Skype.
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Three days? Oh, wow!
Er, how did you Skype if the internet wasn’t working?
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Funnily enough, that was all that worked. No emails and Firefox had problems. So now I’m back on IE and new passwords for email. Google said there had been an attempted hacking originating in Brussels – go figure…
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Surprising, that. I would have thought that Skype would also have been affected.
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Catching, definitely… that little stunt with the head, so familiar, so cuuuute! My, she’s growing up! Is she going to school next year?
Glad you’re back online! (I didn’t notice btw, but I’m orffline such a lot these days…) 🙂
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We shall see who has it right …
Grade R next year.
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Enjoy!! Hehe. I played UNO with my kids tonight, and when they were smaller Monopoly and Chess were prescribed homeschool subjects. We’ve also started on Scrabble recently, which is a challenge because our set is German, with Umlaut letters and not enough e’s. 🙂 Too few c’s as well. Lots of fun.
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Makes the challenge too much of one!
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Depends what kind of odd word constructs one allows… we used to take photos of our scrabble games because they were so funny.
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When I lose….. (sorry, when the computer loses)…connectivity, I click restart, unplug the modem for a minute or so while the computer finds its way again, and then plug in the modem again. Works for me…I mean the computer.
Little R is pretending to throw to the teacher, but she’ll throw the ball over the teacher’s head to the little boy in the orange shirt ;-).
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This reminds me of something in UK Wizard’s sidebar with a picture of someone starting to say something calm like that. Then he beats hell out of the computer, and starts again!
No I tried all that and this time it didn’t work.
The interpretations of R’s actions are getting wilder!
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Internetlessness is one of the worst things ever, at least I’ve got my phone as back. Although it’s limited, it’s better than nothing!
My guess is little R is going to throw it just because it would be mean of the teacher to throw it so high up and expect her to catch it
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Hmmm… are we going to expose a mean teacher? I wonder …
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Best you get cracking with all those e mails Col 😉
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I’m’ trying, I’m trying!
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Arrgh there is nothing more frustrating than suffering from the dreaded internetlessness. So glad you have recovered.
My guess is … R is about to throw the ball.
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Even breathing deeply doesn’t help!
Aha… ?
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Symptoms include: a pounding headache, sweaty palms, heart palpitations and in sever cases, uncontrollable rage. And there’s only one cure …
The sweet pill of Reconnectivity!
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🙂
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Did you ever have the experience that a real live and living person on the other side of the line told you to go and find the solution on the internet? When that was the whole problem to start with?
Well, I did, and I can tell you that I practically HOWLED in her ear!
Good to know that you have solved the internet issue 😀
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Oh, what a brilliant intellect! Rather like saying your car won’t start, and the response is suggesting you drive it to a repair shop!
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YES! I almost asked her if she was blond. But then I’m blond myself 😉
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You could have added the word ‘stereotypical’, but it is certain she wouldn’t have understood it.
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Laughing out loud here. You are the best!
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We have to reset quite often, waiting for the day we can get Internet from a satellite..
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So I’m not the only one? What the devil inspires them to lose the setting?
Trouble with a satellite is that bad weather can block the signal.
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When we have bad weather here we unplug in any case that is the shortest route to end the life of said modem
😦
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They are lost in a flash? 🙂
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Arwwww!! (Growwwl!!)
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I get sooo frustrated when the internet goes down. You have my sympathy.
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Apart from everything else, one wastes so much time in trying to sort it out!
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Welcome to the club
been my lot all day
do not know what is up
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I find it weird that it can operate happily on a setting for months and then suddenly lose it. Don’t know if yours has done the same.
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By, George . . . I think she caught it! 😀
Losing the internet can be so tiring
But, as always, your words are inspiring.
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As usual I find
Your comment too kind!
And a catch or throw
You quite soon will know.
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But then again she could be catching. One never knows wirth females!
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Then, of course, being female, she could be fumbling the throw or the catch!
*decides it is wise to leave town for a while*
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Hay!!
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*distant voice* I’m not he-e-e-ere!
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Throwing, I would say.
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Aha – the answer will be announced in due course!
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