Started off the day getting up early, and picking up my cable at the post office. That place was rather packed, but I ended up running into another Bethel person, and since we were both only picking up packages (rather than sending) we got to go to the head of the line and they went and looked for them together to save time. Work went OK, rebooted a machine a bunch of times to compile drivers against the kernel in both smp and non-smp mode. Gotta love when new versions come out. Also found and cleaned out some junk buried in Active Directory. For being production and from such a big company you wouldn't think it'd leave crap in random places which pop up later to interfere, or it'd at least handle it and clean it up when it sees a conflict and starts causing problems. I guess there's a reason why I like linux. After work poked around on a windows box with the data cable. Played with the pc suite a bit, and found the fun verizon instigated restrictions that nokia has for my phone. I hear there are some easy ways around them though, so we'll see. I also couldn't get the data connection going through windows dial up networking - the calls just dropped and it couldn't ever even get ppp going. And it needed a ton of drivers to even see the cable. I got bored with that eventually (the only useful thing seemed to be backing up my data), so headed home. Got there, and plugged the data cable into my linux machine. Instantly recognises it and I can talk to the phone. So far 10 seconds versus 10 minutes, not too bad. Then I configure ppp and dial right in to the system. And people say Windows is more compatible with things than Linux... Data over Cell is rather slow, since my phone refuses to accept the high speed commands (as well as half of nokia's other documented commands). I'm suspecting that's another verizon instigated thing... I think I'll still take free unlimited 14.4 over paying a couple pennies a minute for regular dialup, and that's if I can even find a phone line anywhere to tap into... So anyways, I'm happy that it's working, now it's just how much time I'm gonna spend poking with getting it faster over the next couple weeks.