Geek Network
Dipping my toes into the pool of geekdom I've just fully field-tested my mac network. I've worked on networks before where somebody else has done all the heavy lifting and I've just strung along the Ethernet cable, but I had a dream of wireless networking in the casa.
Just this past week I finally junked my Linksys wireless router in favor of a Belkin setup with a repeater downstairs and I'm now fully wireless for the laptops. I had downloaded aftermarket firmware signed up for various user groups and burned much incense to make the Linksys work, but all I got was a signal that sometimes worked and from the weird looks I was getting from the user interface that seemed to threaten to turn itself into a doorstop, I pulled the plug.
Some of my friends have been asking for photos so as I finished the last post I linked a photo from the dot mac account. As I only have two sitting out there in the mac ether I thought it would be fun to post another but I was sitting downstairs at the computer that doesn't have the photos. Hello network thingy! I logged onto the computer with the pics, opened one on this computer in Photoshop, resized and saved directly to dot mac. Three servers involved, once removed from the main wireless router, changing a picture located on one computer while using a program running on another and saving to yet another. The fact that I managed to put together the system and make it work has me tingling all over.
And of course I'll be posting this to yet another server for you to enjoy on your own computer virtually anywhere in the world. I've made a short little attempt to log onto my PC (which is where I make my international phone calls and rip and burn my DVDs) but it makes believe that I don't know my own password. From my limited experience with the Windows world I'm guessing I have to do some more configuration stuff but there's only so many hours in the day and why does Microsoft seem to operate in Greek? And why did it enjoy using my new Spanish keyboard for five minutes and then ignore it?
The answers to these and many other questions will have to wait, but for the time being enjoy the photograph of some happy Brazilians celebrating a goal on the tube.
In the States there is some kind of dividing line in the population as regards sports, especially between men and women. In Brazil there is no such thing. The country bleeds together and celebrates together when the national team wins or loses. I'm not much into this metric football thing but there's something to envy here.
