perfidy

I feel an untowardly grand sense of accomplishment this morning, having last night set up a wireless network in my home. It only took nine months to network two computers, which has to be some kind of low-end record for pathetic technical wimpery.*

[wik]* And no, both machines are modern-era Pentiums with plenty of RAM and so forth, running a recentish version of Windows. If I had managed to network Linux to Windoze, that'd be cause for laurels and champagne, but it was a simple matter of hooking up two machines running the same OS through a router**, and it took nine.... months. Yeesh. Don't let me near your car if it's broken.

[alsø wik]** And this after being the "network guy" in a small office in a past life. I know how to do this stuff. It's not hard and I have the skills. Nine months. Same time it takes to make a baby, a sentient being. And all I got was a laptop and a desktop to talk to each other***. Yeesh again.

[alsø alsø wik] Maybe I should rename the two machines "India" and "Pakistan." Haw!