I got assigned to a new project, and we got assigned some new machines as part of the testing environment. The problem is we are testing on 15 different locales, but we don't have the oh so helpful ghost images to help speed up installation. We have to install the operating system from scratch in 15 different languages. What a nightmare! It took me an afternoon to "try" to install an Eastern European locale, but with no luck. It was acting weird. Maybe I should have started with something closer to home, to the UK that is.
However, things turned better towards the evening. My colleague and friend Gavin came to my house to take a look at the wireless problem I'm having. After thirty minutes of messing around with the router and trying to get his wireless PDA to connect, we finally came something on the router setting called "MAC Address Filtering" under the firewall configuration section. It was here, where we needed to add the MAC address of the network adapter on the notebook, otherwise the wireless router would not allow it to connect. Talk about Ostrich egg on my face! I owe my wife an apology for being grumpy and not listening to her. So sorry! Also, thanks to Gavin for giving a second opinion, Max and Marian for lending me their wireless USB adapters to try, even though I did not need to install them, but its the thought that counts! Thanks to you all for helping me!
Let's hope that this a little sign telling me that things are going to get a little bit better. I can't help feeling that things have been going downhill at home and at work since my birthday. I hope thing will become better. Fingers crossed!
However, things turned better towards the evening. My colleague and friend Gavin came to my house to take a look at the wireless problem I'm having. After thirty minutes of messing around with the router and trying to get his wireless PDA to connect, we finally came something on the router setting called "MAC Address Filtering" under the firewall configuration section. It was here, where we needed to add the MAC address of the network adapter on the notebook, otherwise the wireless router would not allow it to connect. Talk about Ostrich egg on my face! I owe my wife an apology for being grumpy and not listening to her. So sorry! Also, thanks to Gavin for giving a second opinion, Max and Marian for lending me their wireless USB adapters to try, even though I did not need to install them, but its the thought that counts! Thanks to you all for helping me!
Let's hope that this a little sign telling me that things are going to get a little bit better. I can't help feeling that things have been going downhill at home and at work since my birthday. I hope thing will become better. Fingers crossed!
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