"Configuration-Free", My Ass

[dr_tectonic]

Picked up a wireless router today for the wireless laptop Jerry bought with hooray grant money.

I was expecting to write a post about how I really ought to be less hardware-phobic, because there are so many American households that have computers now, and most of the products are designed to be used by people less tech-savvy then myself. And getting it all hooked up to talk to the desktop windows box and all that stuff was, in fact, quite painless.

But then I tried to get the laptop to talk to the wireless network.

It sees the network. It looks for the signal and is perefectly happy to connect to it and tell you the signal strength and all that kind of thing.

It just refuses to actually *use* the network in any way.

Have I mentioned recently how much I hate Windows XP? With the white-hot passion of a thousand suns, as they say; that's how much.

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[toosuto.livejournal.com]

Zone alarm, while a very recommended product (from what I hear), tends to hose up alot of network connections. I spent all day on tuesday trying to get one computer to talk to the rest of the workgroup it was in and it turned out that it was the remnants of a firewall that was hosing it all up. Computers make me sad, that said, I have no idea what to be when I grow up, maybe a farmer or an astronuat, or a porn store clerk. Who knows.