Ahhh I hate computers!!!(Sometimes)
I just got myself a laptop, a little Asus Eee, first impression…awesome…it cost me $300 and its the smallest laptop I’ve seen, I think the Sony VAIOs come close but they are a lot more expensive, but at the same time a lot more powerful. Anyway I start playing with it expecting something to go wrong because something always does and it has wireless and I always have trouble with wireless, the exceptions being my ps3 and psp, they always work fine. So sure enough i have trouble connecting to my home wireless connection…great…play around for a bit, figure out it’s the encryption its having the problems with, turn of my WPA and it works fine unencrypted. Yay at least i can use my laptop wirelessly at home. By this point I’m getting pissed off with the version of Linux that comes with the laptop and go to bed as I had work the next day at 9am.
I get home from work and turn on the laptop, last nights frustrations behind me. Decide to update some of the software to see if it helps with the encryption issue, no luck, the built in update manager is useless. I knew that because it was Linux there would be some decent customization tips on the net, had a look around and found eeeuser.com. Excellent now were getting somewhere.
Turns out synaptic, an awesome package manager for Linux is under the hood i just needed to run it from the terminal. not only that but with a few quick steps you can get a real KDE desktop environment. got that happening, feeling good, decide i need to get some music happening since I’m on slow net and downloading OpenArena was not an option. I connected to my PC’s shared music folder, start playing some Coldplay, browsed through a few more albums, then as if deciding that I had been having to much of a good time, a password dialog appears. I need to log into the file share that I have already been browsing for the past 5 minutes. Not only that but the music is still streaming in the background from the share, pseudo-security or what. Alright I’ll bite, I tried to login with my windows login then my Linux and then any other random concoction i can think of, but no, windows file share has decided it doesn’t want me looking at my music.
and so final thoughts, why do computer have to be so temperamental and complicated! Why
couldn’t they have made an open standard wireless network adapter when they made the open standard wireless protocol, one with open source drivers so my network adapter would work on any bloody OS and I didn’t have to even think about driver troubles and incompatibility. why does everything have to be so complicated…and why is my god dam quota only 12GB i want 100s dam it.
okay I’m done
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