Covad was in today, wiring up my phone line for DSL. I switched from Speakeasy’s standard ADSL service - requires landline service, no wiring, self installation kit with phone filters - to their Onelink plan - no landline service needed, wiring required, technician install. I started the process on September 22nd, one week and a half later it’s apparently all done. The eventual plan is to ditch the tyranny of the landline (as well as the monopolies of QWest local and AT&T long distance services), and maybe get Vonage VoIP service or just use my cell phone regularly; it depends greatly on calling plans to Canada. More on that as it happens.

Unfortunately they gave me new IP addresses, which means having to change my DNS entry. Just to make life interesting, it seems like a perfect opportunity to upgrade this box from RedHat 9.0 (and its lame version of X which doesn’t support acceleration on my graphics card) to Fedora Core 2. So levork.org and all other domains that leech bandwidth are valued guests here will probably be interrupted tonight. Just a friendly advance warning to y’all who link directly to images here without attribution. (Grr.)