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altivoCan't stay awake any longer.
Nanowrimo word count: 45472 words (1823 today)
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Not even halfway through the story I need to tell, and already approaching 50K. It doesn't have half the funnies and jokes I intended, either. I can see this is a long term project.
OK, a question for the computer folks. I know next to nothing about wireless networking, never having had occasion to use it at all. I picked up a little device very cheaply that can function as a tiny netbook, complete with wireless connection, stripped down Linux operating system, and up to 2GB of solid state "disk" storage on a SD chip. I haven't had the best of luck getting connections with it, however. We have no wifi in our house, obviously. Neither does the library where I work. Yesterday, though, we went to lunch in Woodstock where there is free, open wifi advertised on the square and inside the restaurant. It could see the network, identified it as "Open" using the same SSID that is listed on all the signs in the area, but failed to connect even after repeated attempts. Then we stopped at the Woodstock Public Library because Gary want to get some audiobooks, and the gadget did connect easily and immediately to the wifi there. Why can it connect to one open link yet not to another? Repeated this test again today as we passed through Woodstock with the same results. Successful connection at the library, failure on the square.
Nanowrimo word count: 45472 words (1823 today)
Sponsor me!Story draft available here.
Not even halfway through the story I need to tell, and already approaching 50K. It doesn't have half the funnies and jokes I intended, either. I can see this is a long term project.
OK, a question for the computer folks. I know next to nothing about wireless networking, never having had occasion to use it at all. I picked up a little device very cheaply that can function as a tiny netbook, complete with wireless connection, stripped down Linux operating system, and up to 2GB of solid state "disk" storage on a SD chip. I haven't had the best of luck getting connections with it, however. We have no wifi in our house, obviously. Neither does the library where I work. Yesterday, though, we went to lunch in Woodstock where there is free, open wifi advertised on the square and inside the restaurant. It could see the network, identified it as "Open" using the same SSID that is listed on all the signs in the area, but failed to connect even after repeated attempts. Then we stopped at the Woodstock Public Library because Gary want to get some audiobooks, and the gadget did connect easily and immediately to the wifi there. Why can it connect to one open link yet not to another? Repeated this test again today as we passed through Woodstock with the same results. Successful connection at the library, failure on the square.
