The gallery is fixed! Yey. I just upgraded Apache and PHP on Spence’s box since he didn’t have time to do it. Apparently they needed reverse proxy support that they didn’t have for some “secret project” that he won’t tell me about that involves Sykpe or something.
At any rate, I finally have internet in my apartment. After waiting a month. After 2 visits from Verizon and 5 from Comcast. I could have had Verizon FIOS (fiber) really cheaply but they didn’t believe that I was able to get it in my apartment (even though my landlord’s office, which is in the building right in front of mine, can get it). They made a request to the “engineering department” (i.e. those who control The Database of Homes and Apartment that Does Not Lie About What Services are Available to You) to update my record and they came back saying it would take another 3 weeks (I’d been talking to them on the phone for 2 weeks already) for them to do it. And even then, they couldn’t guarantee that I’d be able to get fiber. Bah.
So I call Comcast. Not a very different experience, really. They got really hung up on the fact that my building was new and had never had cable service before. They sent out 3 service guys before it got through their head. Each time they came, they went “oh, you don’t have a line running to this building.” And every time I would reply “I know, I told you guys this over the phone. Every time I call I tell you this.” Finally I got in touch with the local contractor who would actually be doing the work and they got it straightened out, and they said they would be coming to run the line and install my cable. The lied. They had trouble fitting a cable line down a 4 inch PVC pipe and they blamed the 1 inch Verizon line in it. Go figure. Comcast sent out yet another contractor on yet another day to install the line and I finally got service two days shy of a month after first calling them.
Now I just need to get some more furnature (and rugs!) for my apartment, which incidentally breeds, raises, and pastures dust bunnies.
