{"id":253,"date":"2002-07-01T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-02T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamusutaa.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2002-07-01T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-02T00:35:00","slug":"adventures-in-tech-support-and-anime-expo-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamusutaa.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/01\/adventures-in-tech-support-and-anime-expo-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Tech Support and Anime Expo, HO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, this year I’ll have my own laptop to make LJ entries with, and won’t have to borrow ‘s. But in order to do this, I’d need a dialup account. But, wait! Don’t we get one for free with our DSL? Wait, we don’t know our username and password! (Which has made using the NNTP server a bit… impossible.) So I call up SBC Pacbell DSL and get transferred around like a lost puppy. At one point, about 14 minutes in, I’m about to be transferred to the person who can help me, when I get disconnected instead. You know, the “Transfer” and “Drop like a bad habit” buttons are right next to each other on those Tech Support phones, so it wasn’t really her fault.<\/p>\n

I call back, and try a different approach and get a very cheerful lady who eventually gets me to my intended destination. The nice man who she transferred me to points me to a very concise but well hidden webpage where I enter my DSL phone number, it pulls up my user info, I select a username and password, and I’m done.<\/p>\n

So now, not only can I dialup while in Southern California, we have access to USENet again! Woo hoo!<\/p>\n

I’m driving down to LA tomorrow morning. Whee. If anyone’s going to AX, I’ll be running the tabletop gaming room, in the Westin lobby area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, this year I’ll have my own laptop to make LJ entries with, and won’t have to borrow ‘s. But in order to do this, I’d need a dialup account. But, wait! Don’t we get one for free with our DSL? Wait, we don’t know our username and password! (Which has made using the NNTP … <\/p>\n

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