*does Secret Jesuit Happy Dance*

[camwyn]

Figured out most of what was wrong w/home network, but only after connecting to ISP's web page at work. Hmm, sez I, it says here that the Westell modems sometimes retain password information even after one has changed the password. "Mom," sez I after dialing up my mother's office, "you said yesterday that you changed the PW, right? When?"

"Yesterday afternoon, at work..."

"Uh huh." I reads her the article about the modem. There is much wincing and ultimately a request for the password to be reset to the original. I wait until I get home, because it is not NICE to ask the tech to do something about a home connection while you are not at said computer. I do however reset the PW on ISP's web page.

Got home. Tried to connect. Got ENTIRELY NEW error message which nonetheless inspired hope. Phoned ISP.

Turned out that our router, which I had set to 'keep connection alive', had tried to log in with the old password something like 100 times in a single hour shortly after Mom changed the PW. Apparently 'keep alive' means 'squirt off package of data every thirty seconds'. The ISP servers assumed it was a hack or something and shut down the account. Router has now been set to only connect on demand, max idle time of 5 minutes, and I am back to Internetting from home.

Yay me.

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but on a complete tangent...

[colubra.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that Jesuits secretly perform the Happy Dance- or does this mean that only Secret Jesuits Happy Dance? Or does this mean that Jesuits have a Happy Dance all of their own which they do not discuss with those outside of the Society?

Re: but on a complete tangent...

[camwyn]

Oh, they don't usually talk about it with those outside the Society. However, my mother's cousin is a Jesuit and a comp sci Ph. D., and gave me several pirated video games as my very first Commodore 64 games ever (well, except Omega Race, which was on cartridge). Since we're family, he passed the Secret Jesuit Happy Dance on to me.

Re: but on a complete tangent...

[aethereal-girl.livejournal.com]

I take it this is the same dance that Og refers to as "Dance of Mighty Isidore?"

Re: but on a complete tangent...

[camwyn]

Nah, separate dance. 'Dance of Mighty Isidore' was only established relatively recently and involves mostly jumping up and down and whooping around the computer. The Secret Jesuit Happy Dance is a bit more generically applied and contains elements that John Travolta would like back so that he can stuff them into the disco movies from which they were stolen.