Random Bitching Monologues

[Wingspan]

yeah it is...

in fact, the best example of this was when my wife's friend's husband hooked a bunch of entertainment equipment up and hooked me up with a sweet setup, he probably did about 5 hours of work, including crawling around in my crawlspace getting filthy.  let's say, conservatively, i could've paid him $35/hour, so about $175 worth of work.

i took him out that night and got him shteinfaced and full of food for about $35.  that rules.

Rumor has it that your wife took care of the rest of the bill.

[SunMo]

as long as i'm not paying actual money, i don't care

[mussa]

Got a wireless router yesterday and have been trying to figure it out ever since. So much for plug and play on a Mac. 

what kind?

We have Macs at home, and I had a wireless router running in about 15 minutes.

The deal is I ordered the new airport extreme, but its not available until the end of February, SO I went to radio shack and got a netgear wireless router in the meantime. Radio Shack has the 30 day money back guarantee, so I'll just take the shtein back. 

I followed all the directions, got the wireless connection, but its not loading webpages pages or IM.  I have zero netorking experience, but I think the IP address' arn't matching. The router and computer IP has to match right? The other problem I have is, I use Vonage, so I can't call for service, because they will eventually tell me to shut off modem.  On top of that, my cell phone gets almost zero service, so I'm farged.

My buddies brother apparently knows how to set-it up, so I am going o give him remote login to check out my current settings.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Friends are better than money.

friends > money > physical harm (a la secondhand smoke)

[Wingspan]

Got a wireless router yesterday and have been trying to figure it out ever since. So much for plug and play on a Mac. 

what kind?

We have Macs at home, and I had a wireless router running in about 15 minutes.

The deal is I ordered the new airport extreme, but its not available until the end of February, SO I went to radio shack and got a netgear wireless router in the meantime. Radio Shack has the 30 day money back guarantee, so I'll just take the shtein back. 

I followed all the directions, got the wireless connection, but its not loading webpages pages or IM.  I have zero netorking experience, but I think the IP address' arn't matching. The router and computer IP has to match right? The other problem I have is, I use Vonage, so I can't call for service, because they will eventually tell me to shut off modem.  On top of that, my cell phone gets almost zero service, so I'm farged.

My buddies brother apparently knows how to set-it up, so I am going o give him remote login to check out my current settings.

Just go into your network prefences, and set your connection to wireless, and get info from DHCP.

As long as your cable modem is first out of the wall, and then the router. and that the router has the right user name and password set into it, it should work.

By the way, you cannot figure a wireless network on any router wirelessly. You must hook your laptop in hardwired to configure initially.

[mussa]

Yea. I did all that. Went through all the steps. Direct connected first to get it set-up, then when it was set-up, wouldn't work wirelss. I reset the router 3 times and re-did everything and still shows me connected, but I can't load pages or anything web. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Blame the unicorns.

[phattymatty]

this is the reason why, if you have a marginal friend who is experienced in computers or cars, you must take care of them.

exactly.  i have a few IT friends who I'll call up every now and then and see if they wanna hit happy hour.  then end the conversation with 'hey by the way, how to i get this shtein to work.'  it's a win-win, you get your stuff fixed and also get drunk.

[SD_Eagle5]

It's almost February yet two people in my neighborhood still have their Christmas lights up. Burn.

[ice grillin you]

[Susquehanna Birder]

Reminds me of some of the stuff James Burke mentioned with regard to our reliance on technology.

[Diomedes]

I've spent five of the last 18 hours commuting home from work last night and then into work this morning.  farging MTA.

p.s. Burke Ave is my station (2 line).  No relation, I'm sure, but farg him nevertheless for the 2 not running this morning.

[Rome]

The little fascists in my daughter's class at school got together and decided to forgo meat next week for Lent.

I heard about that and nearly went through the F'ing roof. I took her to school this morning and pulled her teacher out of the class for a private discussion. I told her that not only is my daughter allowed to eat whatever she wants, they have no right imposing dietary restrictions on her. Only we as her parents have that right.

With each passing day public school is looking better and better to me.


And yeah, I'm eating meat today. Lots of meat. Bacon, cheeseburgers, steaks, chicken, whatever the hell I want. If my soul burns in eternity over eating a cheeseburger on Fridays, then so be it. Just pass the barbeque sauce, Satan.

[SunMo]

celebrate with a bacon cheeseburger, with pork roll on top, and t-bone steaks for the roll

[rjs246]

celebrate with a bacon cheeseburger, with pork roll on top, and t-bone steaks for the roll

holy shtein that sounds delicious.