[OFB Cafe] that having been said . . .

[Rick]

On 7/20/08, dep <dep at drippingwithirony.com> wrote:
>
> said Timothy Butler:
> | > yippee. now i have a very slow computer for my bedside table!
> |
> |       Yippee indeed! Perhaps it would run faster using Xubuntu?
>
> well, i was wrong. i foolishly saw a "network" settings thing in some menu,
> so i went in and put in values i knew to be correct -- and now it doesn't
> work. there is a dandy app rutilt, that of course isn't installed.
>
> problem now is that the little portable isn't getting an ip address. won't
> even work with the router wide open, no authentication at all.
>
> i've looked through all of /etc to see what file may have gotten written
> to, but can't find such a thing. so it worked just long enough for me to
> d/l a new opera and send one email message.
>
> i am beginning to get cranky. again, all day on something that ought to
> take five minutes.
>
> grrrrr.
> --
> dep


I was just going to throw a "congratulations" your way. But I guess I'll
hold off for a bit.

Did you give up on Winders?

~Rick

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