Whee! We're ON
Feb. 13th, 2005 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyWe are now a two-computer family!
Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joyeuse13 in her generosity in giving us the computer, and to patgund and Gerry Tyras in giving me advice on getting the hardware upgrades I needed, and to ulfrikr for giving us a monitor.
I've installed a new big hard drive on Anvil (so named because it will primarily beselenite's computer, and Brendan's when he visits), put in an ethernet card, and set up a router for our cable modem connection.
Both computers are communicating with the internet. Yay!
Unfortunately, I'm not doing nearly as well at getting them to communicate with each other. We can sneakernet with floppies, of course, and now that I have Trillian set up on Anvil, I can send files from Dragonfly via the chat connection. I had a local network in mind, so we could back up each other, but that's not yet working. Anvil has XP, and has a nice network setup wizard, that has me create a file on a floppy to go run on the other computer(s). When I try to run it on Dragonfly, it doesn't like Dragonfly's NT OS. So no luck. Trying to figure out how to do it from Dragonfly hasn't worked at all.
(patgund? Help?)
Still, much progress. I can stay logged onto LJ and Gmail and Yahoo PERMANENTLY!!!! Bwahahaha!
Thanks to
joyeuse13 in her generosity in giving us the computer, and to patgund and Gerry Tyras in giving me advice on getting the hardware upgrades I needed, and to ulfrikr for giving us a monitor. I've installed a new big hard drive on Anvil (so named because it will primarily be
selenite's computer, and Brendan's when he visits), put in an ethernet card, and set up a router for our cable modem connection. Both computers are communicating with the internet. Yay!
Unfortunately, I'm not doing nearly as well at getting them to communicate with each other. We can sneakernet with floppies, of course, and now that I have Trillian set up on Anvil, I can send files from Dragonfly via the chat connection. I had a local network in mind, so we could back up each other, but that's not yet working. Anvil has XP, and has a nice network setup wizard, that has me create a file on a floppy to go run on the other computer(s). When I try to run it on Dragonfly, it doesn't like Dragonfly's NT OS. So no luck. Trying to figure out how to do it from Dragonfly hasn't worked at all.
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patgund? Help?)Still, much progress. I can stay logged onto LJ and Gmail and Yahoo PERMANENTLY!!!! Bwahahaha!
