It’s still raining like crazy here. If it goes on much longer, I might dig up those ark plans.
I spent most of the weekend holed up in our home office installing WinXP Pro to my machine and setting up The Wife with her own machine. My parents gave us several hand-me-down PCs when they upgraded my dad’s office last year. I must say that I’m pretty impressed with XP. It installed my printer without any prompting or assistance from me and sharing it was a snap. It’ll apparently recognize my digital camera without installing it’s software (haven’t tried it yet). It’s a good thing since I tried to install the sw and it promptly told me that it wouldn’t be installing USB support (which is how I connect the camera) because I was using WinNT 4.0 and it doesn’t support it. It didn’t give me the option of installing it anyway, it just decided to “help” me. Apparently, Kodak’s developers can’t read version numbers correctly and/or don’t plan very well for the future.
I’m using XPs Internet Connection Sharing and their firewall. I’m a little skeptical that MS’s firewall is as good as ZoneAlarm. I need to search around and see what others think. If I can use ZoneAlarm with ICS, I’ll install it. Anyone?
I also need to finish setting up a PC for The Boy. The Wife’s parents got him a Bob the Builder CD-ROM that he’s been dying to play for the past several months. He’ll have to wait for Internet access until I break down and get a wireless access point and LAN card. I don’t feel like running CAT-5 cable all over the house.