In a prior post, I shared my experiences working with Sunbeams at church. That was written shortly after I finished working with that particular group of children back in 2010. They moved on to new classes, and I moved on to different callings, but in the ensuing six-odd years, we saw each other off and on. Here I deliver a follow-up report. [Read more…]
Patrick Ryan Boots: in memoriam.
On February 15, 2017, my father passed away after a lengthy battle with dementia. Following is the eulogy I delivered at his memorial service. [Read more…]
The Obama era: a perspective.
An acquaintance of mine posted this yesterday on Facebook. He gave permission for posting elsewhere on the condition that he not receive credit. I share it here, for the ages. [Read more…]
Coming full circle
First, let me post the TL;DR version right up top: Shirly and I have suspended all efforts to adopt. We have closed our old site, mormonsadopting.com, and have deactivated our account on adoption.com. I’m sure this is disappointing and even heartbreaking to our friends and family, who have held out hope and prayed for us and with us as we have sought the blessing of posterity. We’re simply at a point of spiritual exhaustion with respect to this matter, for reasons that should be abundantly clear in the course of this post. [Read more…]
Belkin B2B128 and macOS Sierra: how to get them working again
I’m fairly militant on keeping my electronics running the latest updates – security, stability and all that. Which made it frustrating that, after I installed macOS Sierra on my MacBook Air, my Belkin B2B128 Ethernet adapter stopped functioning. The USB outlets seemed to work fine, but the Ethernet functionality – which is of course the main reason I bought the thing – was AWOL.
I put up with it for a while and got by with WiFi – grudgingly, I might add, since our router is right next to my home office desk – but now that I’m on a consulting assignment with a different client whose WiFi is less than reliable, matters came to a head. I need Ethernet on my notebook, ASAP. So I jumped on a chat with somebody from Belkin. His response: sorry, it’s broken, we no longer support it, you’ll have to get a replacement.
Seriously? This thing cost me around $50 last year. It worked fine until the latest macOS update. This is a software issue, not a hardware issue, meaning it’s easily remedied. I griped on Twitter, which yielded this response:
@rpboots Hi Ryan. Thanks for reaching out to us. Our Engineering team is working on it. Stay tuned on our website for more updates.
— BelkinCares (@BelkinCares) December 8, 2016
Thankfully, Tom’s Hardware came to the rescue. Seems that, in cases like these when a software update breaks something (which seems to happen with USB 3.0 hardware), you’re better off checking with the chipset manufacturer, which in this instance is an outfit called Asix. I went here, downloaded and installed their latest driver (compatible with macOS 10.12, AKA Sierra), and I’m back in business.
Hey, Belkin? Get with the program.
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