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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / September 2005The Mac is Signing Off, maybe for good
It appears that the wife's older computer has died and so she cannot use it anymore for transcribing music into Braille for the college and University students. This means that she has to do all that stuff from her newer machine and that one is not connected to the internet. I suggested that we put _my_ DSL Sympatico onto _her_ computer, as it is relatively easy to do, and she can then send her work to the profs by email rather than snail mail on an old-style disquette. Sooooo,,,,, heh.... heh.... heh..... I'm gonna walk the wires and the modem over to her desk and do that (hopefully) tonite. It may not work and if it doesn't I am _positive_ that Sympatico will go ballistic because I haven't the right or the privilege.... etc. So, if I'm not speakin' to youse for a few days, it's because I'm procuring an audience with the Pope to straighten things out. 'Tank Youse SP  SignatureTake out the TRASH to reply > It appears that the wife's older computer has died and so she cannot use > it anymore for transcribing music into Braille for the college and [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > 'Tank Youse > SP Get a cheap router, dsl can't tell much of what's connected after that. carabelli >> I > > suggested that we put _my_ DSL Sympatico onto _her_ computer, as it is [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > carabelli Un-Huh.. but the Ethernet wires would be lo.o.o.o.o.ong and right in the rabbit's running area. She just _loves_ to chew wires. Unfortunately, the 'puters are not close by. Still if by 'router' you mean a 'hub' where one can connect multiple 'puters to one input, then that could be a very good solution. I'd just have to move the iBook over to her desks when I do my blathering, but I wouldn't have to disconnect her 'puter. Thanks Big C, I'll look into that. SP SignatureTake out the TRASH to reply > >> I > > > suggested that we put _my_ DSL Sympatico onto _her_ computer, as it is [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > SP Airport and wireless. Makes the rabbits unhappy. Robert Morien <PhD_failure@nousefulinfo.com> wrote: > Still if by 'router' you mean a 'hub' > > where one can connect multiple 'puters to one input, then that could be [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Airport and wireless. Makes the rabbits unhappy. Absolutely correct, but Airport is $$$. Pity, though, as my clam-shell iBook has the antenna built in. Actually, I think all the iBooks, old and new, have that. Thanks SP SignatureTake out the TRASH to reply Stove, Futureshop, Staples and others have the SMC Barricade (wired) on for $10 You could do wireless for about a hundred. Slimepatico will sell you a modem upgrade to a one piece modem/wireless router for $70 . That plus a wireless card should cost you about $100. Most the wireless units will give you wired capabilities, so you can insert it in line with the setup you have now and then get one wireless PCI card for the other puter. That will give you a hardware firewall too. Does your lappy have wireless? Give me a call Sunday and I will talk you through it. SignatureRoy rem NADA to reply | >> I | > > suggested that we put _my_ DSL Sympatico onto _her_ computer, as it is [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] | | SP > Stove, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > will give you a hardware firewall too. Does your lappy have wireless? Give > me a call Sunday and I will talk you through it. Howdy, Roy. Yes, the iBook does have wireless built in; it think all the iBooks do. This SMC Barricade seems interesting though: I don't have the $$$ right at the moment for much else. I'll give you a shout later today. Thanks SP SignatureTake out the TRASH to reply > Sooooo,,,,, heh.... heh.... heh..... I'm gonna walk the wires and the > modem over to her desk and do that (hopefully) tonite. It may not work > and if it doesn't I am _positive_ that Sympatico will go ballistic > because I haven't the right or the privilege.... etc. I've decided to wait. I'm gonna take youse advice and so I'll go to the local computer recycling depot and see if I can't get a quality used router at a decent price and then do the whole thing. I also will phone Sympatico so they don't go apesh*t if things don't go right. AFAICS, they can't refuse me the right to swap one computer for another, as long as there is only one user. Thank Youse SP SignatureTake out the TRASH to reply |
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