"... like the first morning..."

So I showed up out at Forest Meadows, but the Maclay runner kids weren't out there... *shrugs*

So I came back and had a nice breakfast :)

*laughs* For anybody interested in reliving their childhood programmer-hood, you can still download qbasic from micro$oft, as it turns out -- a bit of wandering around turned this particular oddity up -- the file you want is "olddos.exe", which is a self-extracting archive (DOS executable, so you'll need some way to run that, if that's an issue for you -- but if you want to run qbasic, you'll need a way to run dos binaries anyway, j0!) -- but it has qbasic and some other old stuff in it.

I'm semi-seriously considering, just to be stupid, setting up treebeard (the Linux box I've been using for the Linux Kernel Class) as a FreeDOS machine and setting him up to do TCP/IP ... and I'm simultaneously wondering why this idea is so fascinating ... is this just nostalgia, or a sign of a diseased mind, or a possibly fun hack, or all of the above?

Hrum, now I just need a good version of LOGO and some way to run hypercard and I can reproduce my childhood programming experiences for Taren... ooh, I bet she'd like hypercard. That's /exactly/ what she needs... now to find an oldsk00l Mac Classic...

w00t w00t! (warning: incomprehensible entry)

It's difficult to believe it took me this long to make it work, but ... I got the dad-blammed (absolutely beautiful, lovely, exciting) wireless ethernet card to work on my laptop, and now I'm emerge-ing and LJ-ing from my room upstairs, far far away from the wireless router downstairs, and wireless is the coolest thing ever to happen, ever, and now I'm going to set up eowyn to be a router, so's elrond and treebeard can get on the 'net through her, through the wireless router, through the cablemodem... so now elrond can run Gentoo or Slack 9 or Debian or FreeBSD or something that's not his somewhat-outdated Slack 8.1 ...

The more levels of NAT, the better, right?

w00t!!

It was something really silly, as it always is... I was trying to use Chris Verges's excellent Basic Wireless Howto, but that didn't work with the particular card I was using, the Siemens SpeedStream 1021... although that ends up working quite nicely with the orinoco_cs driver, just like everything else on the planet... but my /etc/pcmcia/config file didn't have the right ID codes for that particular card -- don't you hate it when /etc/pcmcia/config doesn't have the right manfid for your pcmcia wifi 802.11b device? That really slots me off.

*laughs, is a complete and utter geek, is happy that his wireless now works upstairs, posts, scurries off to set up NAT-ing for the albemuth network...*