Well, one of the rare things that irks in life is my wife’s use of the Windows based operating system. We have spent the last two days trying to ensure that the wireless LAN connection on her new laptop is not flaky. Drop-outs are frequent and the laptop is almost constantly attempting to “acquire an IP address”. Oh, Shao Ping, please let me buy you a mac next time. Typing Chinese (traditional) is easier on a PC however.

Surfed the web attempting to get answers provided some ideas. It also confirmed that we were doing the right thing. But we still had no joy. Speaking of joy, our exchange student, Joye also had problems connecting her laptop to the wireless network and we enlisted the aid of one of her fellow students. he is coming around tonight to assist us with Shao Ping’s new laptop.

Connecting the Mac to the WLAN was effortless. No problem. Easy. No stress. In fact I have connected the Mac to countless WLANS at work, friend’s places, hot spots in fast food joints, etc, no problem.

So, in the meantime, Shao Ping’s laptop is connected to the Airport base station using Ethernet LAN. That works.

I should not let it stress me as I am a bit of a stress head but when I start opening all of the countless ‘networking’, ‘properties’ and ‘advanced’ nested dialogue boxes in Windows (XP and 2000, etc) I feel like a proctologist performing a colonoscopy. There is so much crap inside the Windows OS. I wonder if Bill Gates needs to see a proctologist? Should be called Windows XPoo.