All systems go!

[rivka]

Thanks to the combined efforts of curiousangel, Ben, and an anonymous nice guy at the Comcast help desk, my new computer is now properly hooked up to our home network and thus to the Internet. We haven't yet solved the problem of transfering files from my old computer to my new one, but Ben's working on it. Yay Ben!

We'd originally been conisdering some drastic solutions to the unable-to-network problem, including ditching Windows XP and installing a more cooperative version of Windows. Now that that's clearly not going to be necessary, I've been able to go ahead and install all my software. I'm going to have to buy an upgrade for my reference manager, and I bought MS Office 2000 Professional at work for $25, but the rest of my older software seems to be working.

Oooh, this is exciting. I'd been running Windows 95 on an old tired machine. I feel so powerful.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to all concerned for getting it to work. I know it was frustrating having all that wonderful computing power isolated from the net.