Crazy switch

My switch has been playing up the past few days… eugh. It’ll work perfectly for two minutes, then cut out for thirty seconds to two minutes, and repeat. This basically means I can’t download anything in Firefox (wget handles a little better… not much, but a little), and Ximian Evolution keeps crashing as it loses the IMAP (or Exchange) link and wonders what the hell happened. Oh, yeah, and the fact that Ubuntu’s clock/calendar is intrinsically linked with the mail client means I’ve been using date and cal -m… far out, I may as well just start using mutt or something!

More seriously, I’m thinking I might actually have to plug stuff directly into the router here (shock), or start using the ancient Baystack thing… but I can’t use that til after Sunday (Christmas Carols service alluded to previously… can’t be bothered finding a link) seeing as I’m going to use it as my ‘portable’ hub just in case I need to transfer stuff between computers and… run out of blank discs or both my SD cards and readers die or something. More probably, that a file is too enormous for a CD (only one machine has a DVD burner, and I’m not editing on it). Whatever. Dying switches suck.