UPS again

Yep, it's a NIC alright. The trick will be hacking into it to get the IP set up. Unfortunately, to get into it requires:

• A serial connection
• A specially pinned out cable
• A machine close enough to the UPS to be connected by that cable
• Non-production machine, at that

So it is thwarting me again. This is a perfect job for a laptop, but we don't have any of those floating around the office; they're all on long-term loan to people. My second choice, throwing an old Visual terminal on the cable, didn't work due to my unfamiliarity with that particular version of terminal. I'm going to end up having to haul my PC in there and do it while sitting on the floor.

Whine whine whine, moan moan moan.