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| Monday, June 19, 2006 11:31 AM |
| You Know Who Else Rocks? |
 by Fëanor |
Supergrass. Love this track "Tales of Endurance, Pts. 4, 5 & 6" off of Road to Rouen. Fantastic.
Btw, we have a Gateway laptop now. It's purty. Put it on the wireless network. It can get on the internet, but I haven't figured out how to give the PC and laptop the ability to share files between each other. There seems to be some kind of permissions issue. Maybe the eighteen firewalls I have going?
I was infuriated and stunned, however, by how difficult it was to discover the MAC address of the wireless adapter in the laptop. My network is pretty secure; it's encrypted, and only devices with specific MAC addresses are allowed on. So I got to find the MAC address of the laptop's wireless adapter, figuring it should be easy; just go into the properties in the Device Manager, right? Wrong. Not there. In fact, after poking through various property boxes, and even resorting to using Windows Help, I came up completely empty. I was forced to go to the other computer and get on the internet to figure it out (what the hell would I have done if I didn't have another computer on the internet? Call tech support?? Tear the machine open and pull the physical card out?). Turns out you have to run command prompt and punch in an ipconfig command. How stupid is that?! Why do I have to use an emulator of an old operating system to find the MAC address, instead of using the actual real operating system that the thing runs on?
I was later further infuriated when the laptop dropped off the wireless network and couldn't connect to the internet for some ten minutes or so despite the fact that I was sitting right next to the wireless gateway, happily transmitting the signal. I felt like Eddie Izzard in his Ctrl+P Print sketch - what do you mean you can't find it? It's right there.
My wireless network is cool and all, but it'd be cooler if it worked all the time, instead of just dropping out every 20 minutes or so. |
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