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Computers
There should be a sort of geeky fun in running two computers at the same time.
I have dug out my laptop for the first time in about six months because I want to use the DVD burner on it at some point in the near future, but of course I am now having to download and install 6 months' worth of security updates. That means that it is down in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
colonel_maxim's computer room rather than up here in The Tower because I don't have a spare cable long enough to trail down to the router. (Yes, yes, we could go wireless, but that would involve expenditure we don't need to make).
This all means that I can't pretend to be a computing Rick Wakeman and plap along on two keyboards simultaneously - though that is probably a good thing on many levels, not least through my complete inability to type independently with individual hands (I can barely type on a single keyboard; two simultaneously is just begging for trouble). It would be nice to be able to run both machines on the internet up here, but I am still not over the sometimes-it-works-sometimes-it-doesn't attempts to branch the internet connection through a subsidiary router so that we could plumb in (as it were)ellefurtle's Mac for use up in The Tower.
It's not a big problem as I don't use the laptop that often, but it would be nice. It does mean that I get to use my PC-barbecue icon again, though.
I have dug out my laptop for the first time in about six months because I want to use the DVD burner on it at some point in the near future, but of course I am now having to download and install 6 months' worth of security updates. That means that it is down in
colonel_maxim's computer room rather than up here in The Tower because I don't have a spare cable long enough to trail down to the router. (Yes, yes, we could go wireless, but that would involve expenditure we don't need to make). This all means that I can't pretend to be a computing Rick Wakeman and plap along on two keyboards simultaneously - though that is probably a good thing on many levels, not least through my complete inability to type independently with individual hands (I can barely type on a single keyboard; two simultaneously is just begging for trouble). It would be nice to be able to run both machines on the internet up here, but I am still not over the sometimes-it-works-sometimes-it-doesn't attempts to branch the internet connection through a subsidiary router so that we could plumb in (as it were)
ellefurtle's Mac for use up in The Tower. It's not a big problem as I don't use the laptop that often, but it would be nice. It does mean that I get to use my PC-barbecue icon again, though.