Adventures in Networking!

Ooh! Success! Yesterday I was trying to figure out a slick way of getting large files from my Thinkpad to the new iBook (and vice versa) in an immediate and timely fashion -- preferably not using the CD burner, and I was hunting among the various utilities and so on, and not coming up with much. Today, I hit upon the one obvious utility that I hadn't somehow twigged to -- called Windows Sharing on the iBook, and was able to get them connected immediately.

I am such a doofus sometimes.

But, daughtershade, that means I'm this much closer to putting together a vid CD for you.

And in the future I'll be able to move stuff back and forth as fast as I can open a window and click, et cetera, which is a big relief for future downloading, vidding and et cetera.

Now I've just got to decide whether or not I should acquire Microsoft Office for Mac. Because I've been doing all my writing on the work laptop, and of course that's in Word, which I've gotten used to. Whereas, the iBook has Appleworks, which has a lot less functionality and (dare I say it?) user friendliness, at least in terms of the features that I depend on with Word.

Of course, that takes for granted that the same features I'm looking for are actually present in Word for Mac.

I'd also like to have Excel for Mac, while I'm at it. My colorful graphs of writing progress are really important to me as a visual tool to reassure myself that Progress is Being Made. (I can't help it -- my first job was at Lotus, in the glory days of 1-2-3, so spreadsheets are near and dear to my heart.)

I also moved over something like 18 or so years of personal files from the iMac -- I'm not really sure if there are any untouched files from like 1986 (or thereabouts) when I got my first personal Mac, but some of the data is probably from that far back. I was an early enough adopter that my first Mac didn't have a hard drive, anyway, and it was a red letter day when I'd saved up enough money to buy an external hard drive for it....

And now I'm unhappy because -- gosh -- my wireless modem doesn't seem to be strong enough, so that I can't take my laptop(s) to every room in the house and get online. How times have changed.