I did some research and found that the SMC Barricade WAN port does not act as an uplink, I need a crossover cable to connect the Hawking Router to the SMC wireless router using LAN ports. So that explains why that wasn’t working last night. Rule number one of tech work, always have the correct…
This New York Times article (registration required) talks about the plans of the bigco’s to look at rolling out a nationwide network for WiFi access. Sounds like an interesting idea, but are there enough people ready and willing to pay for WiFi to make it profitable? While I think people should want it, I’m not…
The migraine I worked up to all day at work kept me from running out to get the wireless card for the laptop, so I haven’t gotten that setup at all yet. I tried to just add the access point to the existing network but I’m having a problem with that. I didn’t think it…
Well this has been a mostly aggravating and annoying day, anyone want to take bets on the rest of the week? By the way, how many times do you have to explain a Single-User license agreement to someone before they understand that it allows you to install two copies only if you’re the user of…
Various stuff I noticed while catching up: Walmart now has the Microtel PC’s with Mandrake. Now, this may prove to be more of an in-road to the consumer market than the Lindows version was, since Lindows isn’t even a finished OS yet! It’ll be interesting to see if this catches some market share or if…
We’ve managed to make it back from our trip to the in-laws for my brother-in-law’s engagement party. It was fun, and it was nice to be able to do some things as far as helping with the party and doing some minor fixes to their PC while we were there. Angela’s parents do so much…