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After only two hours of swearing and frustration and a phone call to the boy* who stepped me through until we found some strange little thing that made no sense whatsoever wrong** and fixed it, I now have a wireless router set up, so I can sit on the couch or my bed and read email without piggybacking on my neighbor's connection. And mine's nicely passworded, so I can't return the favor. :D (plus, I surely do not want my neighbors running BitTorrent on it and getting my account shut down again.)
For Christmas I got a new computer. In potentia, at least: I got the money for it, so now I need to really decide which of the many options that were suggested to me I'm going to take. I'm still leaning towards building one, since that worked really well for me the first time.
I've already decided the important part, of course: what I'm going to name it. Since the slow-and-stupid workhorse laptop is Kenpachi and the iPod is Yachiru, when I needed to name the 2000 box, it was rugged and beat-up enough to become Madarame - god only knows why I chose that instead of his first name - therefore the shiny new pretty box is obviously going to be Yumichika. Or Ayasegawa, if I pick his last name. (And the network is the Gotei 13, while the workgroup is Division 11. Themed all the way.)
DON'T YOU EVER TELL ME I DON'T HAVE MY PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.
* Always date someone who used to work tech support. It saves time and money.
** Problems with DNS stuff. I have too much rage and adrenaline running through my system to actually understand what he explained to me about it, but it works now.
For Christmas I got a new computer. In potentia, at least: I got the money for it, so now I need to really decide which of the many options that were suggested to me I'm going to take. I'm still leaning towards building one, since that worked really well for me the first time.
I've already decided the important part, of course: what I'm going to name it. Since the slow-and-stupid workhorse laptop is Kenpachi and the iPod is Yachiru, when I needed to name the 2000 box, it was rugged and beat-up enough to become Madarame - god only knows why I chose that instead of his first name - therefore the shiny new pretty box is obviously going to be Yumichika. Or Ayasegawa, if I pick his last name. (And the network is the Gotei 13, while the workgroup is Division 11. Themed all the way.)
DON'T YOU EVER TELL ME I DON'T HAVE MY PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.
* Always date someone who used to work tech support. It saves time and money.
** Problems with DNS stuff. I have too much rage and adrenaline running through my system to actually understand what he explained to me about it, but it works now.
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I'd remember how to spell Yumichika more easily, but that's just me. And of course I approve of your priorities and naming choices!
"DNS" is a bad word at the moment to me too. After arguing with Earthlink tech support for several days (having been tech support myself for a while, I'm a very unpleasant customer ...), they finally figured out that it was some kind of technical glitch in their communications net, and not my own set-up at all. I had been 95% certain that was the case from the beginning, because nothing had changed at my end ... .
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When I had Earthlink, before I moved and couldn't get it anymore, it took two weeks to get set up and working right, and I was the one who figured it out - none of the techs. The problem? I not only had to shut off my firewall - which I'd been doing from the start - I had to uninstall it from the system entirely, Earthlink hated it so much. Figures, huh?
posted FROM THE COUCH
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Next immediate purchase, however: external hard drive to attach to the laptop to serve as a place to store music on, to make managing the iPod easier. Not good as a permanent backup, but I'll be able to restore it much quicker than previously. My time is worth it.
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