| More money for Bill Gates :o( |
Feb. 28th, 2003|07:42 am |
Worked out how to deal with the unco-operative computer: ignored it and bought another. It's just a cheap stop-gap until we sort out exactly what we want for our planned home network (Windows or Linux? PCs or Macs?) but it'll do.
It's a jump from Windows 95 to XP for us so it's a bit disorientating but I've been busily changing all the settings from the aggressively cheerful XP look and feel to the old faithful 'trad Windows' look. So far the new machine is faster and preferable in all respects except the net connection, the whole reason for buying it. It will only connect at 21.6kbps, which sucks, and it unexpectedly disconnects and won't dial out again, which sucks and blows. But at least it works.
One working day until we go away on holiday! Yay!
Edit: the bloody thing just disconnected and reconnected at 19.2kbps...
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