5 PC and Wireless Weekend
I started a new job a few weeks ago that is 9-6 so it has been an adjustment for me to get used to the day hours when I had been working afternoons for almost 3 years prior. I am finally getting used to it. The days are long due to getting up at the prime time of 6:45am and coming home around 7:00pm. I don’t mind the drive at all, but I do notice that it is very expensive paying for gas so I am in the market for a different vehicle which is probably overdue anyway. I am thinking that a Volkswagon diesel would be the most efficient. With my entire week pretty much concentrated on my new job and ensuring I eat and sleep properly, it leaves me with mainly weekends to do any PC work.
This weekend I setup operating systems on 4 older PC’s that were dontated. This was very tedious and time consuming despite the provided Windows 2000 discs taking much less time to install than Windows XP would have especially considering these were older systems ranging between 400 – 700 mhz. The incessent reboots from the updates accounted for a lot of the time of the installation. The fifth PC had a defective hard drive so that will be done at a later date.
I also set up a wireless home network for someone else which went well although the built in Windows XP wireless configuration did not support WPA2 and the link I found that could add support on the Microsoft site could only be installed on a system with Service Pack 1 or lower. It is possible that the card built into the laptop did not have support for WPA2. Either way, wep should do fine as the houses in the area are not side by side and the one neighbor existing is well known.