I MADE FIRE!!!!
I didn’t really make fire. I was speaking metaphorically:-) I recently acquired a laptop from my wheeling and dealing 11 year old niece. Little shit actually negotiated price with me! One of the reasons I wanted a new laptop is because my antiquated POS PC took, and I’m not kidding, 4 minutes to load web pages. Loading apps and any other activity was like watching water boil on a cold day:-( I loaded spybot on it and found that it was full of all kinds of crap, which I promptly destroyed…all to no avail. Still slow as crap-old lady driving on a one lane road your late for work slow. And so I decided to procure my niece’s utterly neglected iBookG4 (a hand-me-down from her father).
My anticipated joy at fast surfing and multiple app hopping was barely contained as I entered my domicile. I immediately tried to connect to my wireless router-a hit and miss affair for many a laptop who have come to Kelly land. I knew this. And of course I was teased bt the fact that my new little friend could “see” my wireless network, but I kept getting the message “connection failed”. I imagined a little password in a long-jump competition wearing its little sneakers, running and jumping its little heart out; only to hit the bar and fall in disappointment. I loaded up the old tank to see if I could wireless through it…yes. Fuck. So then I figured that my router was a discriminating bastard who didn’t like Macs. I was right. I left the problem alone. For a day.
Next day, not to be deterred…I decided to force my asshole router to play nice-I manually reconfigured it using the start-up disc. No success. Then I tried to do so with my Mac mini. [Yes, I even have a REALLY old computer with linux loaded on it-why I have all this computing power, I'm not sure. Perhaps I'll find some nefarious deed in which to engage my little network...someday...but not with out a fucking router.]
Mac mini denied. The f#%^* set up disc only works on PC’s. At this point I figured my router wasn’t compatible with Macs, I was almost deterred. Almost. I went to bed. Hours wasted, the meaning of life in question.
The day of revelations began when I thought to google *****routers and macs. A bagillion links came up. Others had been in my hell. And they took notes:-) This is when I first learned that I could remotely hack into my bitchy little router from a web page. Holy crap. So I typed in the recommended IP address and found myself in a webpage, configuring my wireless router from my MacMini. The grin on my face burned calories. It worked, I was able to log in wirelessly from the mini-weeeeeee! Then the moment of truth came…I busted out the wee one. Found the router, entered the login…”connection failed”. Son of a bitch. I almost cried, but instead I went to bed.
Day 3. I’m alone and feel like I’ll never be saved:-) I go to my trusty friend google. I enter the taunting error message and I come to see the words hexadecimal passwords…I come to find that my new little laptop is a fickle bitch who needs $ before her passwords. Holy crap. Remote configurations happen ONE more time. The moment of truth arrives…
And a gmail login page loads.
One of the proudest moments of my life.
I MADE FIRE!!!!!