M'aidez!

[featherynscale]

EHQ got a new router for Winter Avarice this year. In theory, what this means is that all the computers in the Command Center will be able to talk to each other, share files, and perhaps even print.

In practice, what this means is that for some reason, only one of the three computers now believes in the existence of the Internet. This has necessitated an operating system change for me. That change seems to have largely reduced my PC to schizoid delusions involving the unavailability of drivers, presence or absence of hardware real and illusory, and the fundamental rightness of the 16-bit color system. And, worse, all of this is contributing to me not getting laid.

Because in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.

So at the moment, I'm posting from kittenpants' PC, while burning relevant documents and applications from mine to CD. Because tomorrow, I'm applying ECS therapy to it. Or re-formatting the Damned Thing™ and re-installing the OS. Whichever comes first. I'm pretty sure there are some conductive cables and alligator clips around here somewhere.

However, this does not solve the networking issue. So, er, orcjohn, if you've got some free time soonish and would like to consult on the matter of windows/linux networking.... we could use a bit of help.

Comments

I have to do it.

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Here's my first thought: I've seen the computer room. I understand the reasoning why you would like to get the computers to talk. But the funny thought entered my head: you have three computers in the same room, wouldn't it be easier if you three (E3) just talked to each other?? Then rationality took over. I need to go home. Hugs. Hope it works for you.

I'm not fluent in PostScript.

[kittenpants.livejournal.com]

I don't speak PostScript well enough to just shout at the printer when I want to print a document. That's the problem. One printer, three computers. If D or I want to print anything, we have to email it to K or burn it to CD just to print the damn thing. If I want to put a picture into Adobe Photoshop, I need to email it to K or burn it to CD and take it to K's computer. If K wants to translate a document to PDF, she has to email it to me or burn it to CD and carry it to my machine. If D or K want to take a picture with the digital camera, they need to take over my machine, download the picture, upload it to the internet or burn it to CD before they can open it on their machines. When I hook up the scanner, it'll be the same deal. If D and K are working on, say, the Gaia Budget, they have to burn the Excel spreadsheets from K's machine and the Gnu Cash files from David's machine and run them through translation software before they can even open them on each other's machines.

It's a matter of file sharing, networking, and device sharing. If we can get the network up and running, then we can all use the printer, we can all use the scanner, we can all access shared files from each other's machines.

Despite what some people think about us, just because we use computers does not make us so emotionally crippled that we don't speak to each other in the real world. But no amount of my talking to my husband or girlfriend will magically print my documents.

Re: I'm not fluent in PostScript.

[opaljax.livejournal.com]

Wow, ok, I get it, no more jokes. Hugs.