Two laptops and a wireless router - my new laptop arrived on Tuesday and I set up the network last night after much ado and the help of a friend.

Broadband is almost a novelty in itself, let alone wireless capability. The only problem I have to deal with is the intermitten dropouts from the network, which isn’t too much of an issue, except when you’re in the middle of a large download. One solution - the obvious, is to connect by ethernet, but that isn’t the most practical and it’s not as technically romantic as having packets of 0s and 1s that make up a piece of software whizzing around all of the place.

On a tangent, it takes me back to my days of university with the concept of naming computers on a network. The main network for our computer science division had computers names after characters in The Magic Roundabout, then there were application servers which were named after characters from Winnie The Pooh and finally the new lab which was opened in 1996 which had a series of Wintel boxes running Solaris from memory that was known as ‘The Vegie Patch’. If you took an educated guess, you could probably work out the names of the hardware on the network here.