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Late in updating
Jan. 19th, 2004 01:15 amOK, didn't get as much done today as I'd hoped, but I did review my notes on interviewing, managed to make that old laptop I'd refurbished for my brother into a wireless-networkable laptop, and cleared about four inches of snow off the driveway and walkway.
Not a completely wasted day, then.
One thing kept kicking me in the shins, though: I just rigged my own laptop with the wireless card that I'd had for my PDA, and it connected to the Internet fine, but it flat-out refused to communicate with my desktop PC and - most importantly - the printer connected to my desktop PC. I went through the troubleshooter for it, and noted that while the laptop's plugged in through a network cable, it sees things fine; when I put in the wireless card, suddenly it's disconnected to the network (though still connected to the Internet), and when I disconnect the wireless card, everything's hunky-dory again. Laptop's Windows Millenium Edition, and that can't really be changed (delivering a small nuclear weapon to Microsoft's headquarters would be viscerally satisfying, but wouldn't exactly solve the problem at hand).
Or maybe I should just mark it down as one of those things, and be glad the laptop hasn't fallen apart into seven different pieces.
Interview at six PM tomorrow - make that today. Hoping for luck. Lots of luck.
*fingers crossed*
Close entry.
Not a completely wasted day, then.
One thing kept kicking me in the shins, though: I just rigged my own laptop with the wireless card that I'd had for my PDA, and it connected to the Internet fine, but it flat-out refused to communicate with my desktop PC and - most importantly - the printer connected to my desktop PC. I went through the troubleshooter for it, and noted that while the laptop's plugged in through a network cable, it sees things fine; when I put in the wireless card, suddenly it's disconnected to the network (though still connected to the Internet), and when I disconnect the wireless card, everything's hunky-dory again. Laptop's Windows Millenium Edition, and that can't really be changed (delivering a small nuclear weapon to Microsoft's headquarters would be viscerally satisfying, but wouldn't exactly solve the problem at hand).
Or maybe I should just mark it down as one of those things, and be glad the laptop hasn't fallen apart into seven different pieces.
Interview at six PM tomorrow - make that today. Hoping for luck. Lots of luck.
*fingers crossed*
Close entry.
