Now here's a place I haven't posted to in a while. Lurked yes, posted no. Funny thing is, now that I'm here I don't have much to say. Anyone at my job who would have had some work for me to do is apparently gone for the morning (a religous thing, it's a Jewish company) which leaves me with nothing to do. And so here I am and here you are listening to my boring story.

I'm trying to get a wireless network set up in my house in preparation for broadband internet that may well never be available. Damned lying Cablevision whoresons told me service would be available January of 2003... Yeah 2003. That's not a typo. They said service would be available to my address seven months ago. Bastards. Now the song they're singing is that it'll be available at the end of August this year, but I'm fairly certain I already know how this is gonna turn out (see above link)

Anyway Wi-Fi is cool. I'm going with an 802.11b network. It's gonna be an adventure y'see because I don't have a clue as to what I'm doing! (insert sad little plea for advice here) Also I'm trying to network two WinXP machines, a WinMe, a Win98 and an iMac. I know what equiptment to buy and everything but setting it up is going to be.... interesting. I have to call my ISP for vital information and I just Know AOhelL is going to make it a nightmare like they do everything else.

Security is an issue since it seems every security measure built into the wireless equipment is badly flawed. SSID apparently works like this: "The password is Wi-Fi. What's the password?" and WEP crackers can apparently be found in the bottoms of cereal boxes these days. How is that supposed to help anyone?

Hm. Maybe I had more to say than I thought. It's not likely anyone will gain anything from my long winded tale of jargon and intrigue, but hey, it kept me entertained for at least a little while.
Hey I killed a solid 15 minutes!

  posted by Kitty-chan @ 11:32:29 AM