March 25, 2004
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Recovery Progress
Judging from the lack of comments, few besides myself are interested in this topic. I guess I'm just documenting my progress for future reference.
Today I managed to restore the munged bridge unit so it would once more connect wirelessly to my router. I then connected the backup computer and attempted to get it connected to the Internet. The computer works now but I wasn't able to restore the network connection for the Windows 98SE operating system ... and I ran out of time before I could try with any of the other operating systems.
The time waster was that I made a backup of a number of files to CD-ROM that I want to use on the main XP computer. The CD burner software has never worked particularly well on that machine and it has been a long time since I used it, so I had to play with it some to come up with the exact incantation to use when the system froze up each time. It took about four tries before I finally got my copy made.
If I have to make another CD-ROM within the next month, it will probably only require two tries. Either that, or I'll blow the machine up in the process. I never can tell in advance which way it will go when I'm using Windows.
If I had gotten the network working, making the CD-ROM would have been unnecessary. I could have used network file sharing to get the data from one machine to the other. But Windows never makes things easy for me.
Next, I suppose, I should try one of the Linux systems and make sure it can use the Internet. That shouldn't take too long.
[Update: this update is being made from Debian Linux (Lindows 4.5) on the backup computer. The network connection works fine from Linux.]
Comments (1)
I'm sorry - I guess I'm just a little self-absorbed these days.
I relaxed a lot more with computers when I built my own system from stratch. The system I have you will never find anywhere else - it is completely unique. When I first came to America I thought I would try to learn how to build systems, and the result was perfect...I have never had any problems with it at all. (I can just hear my mother saying: "Don't tempt fate, Steven!")
I'm surprised to learn that you are dabbling about with Windows. Do you have any intention of using the new Windows when it is released next year? I think it is called Longhorn right now...and it has many security - or what I call "invasions of privacy" - features.
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