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It is my understanding (Alert: further bluetooth adventures attempt to continue) that to set up my PC as an access point for the internet (so I can get out onto the net via bluetooth from my PDA), I need to go into the properties of the LAN card and tell it to share. But I can't! My advanced tab doesn't have that option. The advanced tab for the 1394 net adapter does, but isn't that firewire?
What sort of things cause network sharing to be so unavailable? I don't want to run the connection wizard, because I'm sure that'll just break something else that works fine now.
Also, can I set my Mac up to be an access point instead?
The advanced tab for the 1394 net adapter does, but isn't that firewire?
Yes.
Sorry - can't help you with the rest.
I decided to try the wizard. And it told me an error occured during configuration, and nothing else. It did turn firewalling on, but still no sharing option, dammit.
Over the last 48 hours I have used my Treo to:
- Make several phone calls
- Store the contact information for the pizza place across the street, for easy pre-ordering speed
- Add several tutoring sessions to my calendar
- Send many text messages
- Take a picture of the snow and christmas lights on the Columbia campus and send it to my parents
- Read Pride and Prejudice
- Listen to music - specifically, the Wicked and Avenue Q soundtracks
- Record my weight and reps for an upper body workout in a spreadsheet
It did all of this so well that I am amazed. It is my new favorite device ever - sorry, old 30 GB iPod that I no longer have, you did not have the advantage of always being in my pocket no matter what.
I am sad that the next Treo will be Windows Mobile.
Growing pains for the Wikipedia. [link]
I know quite a few people who don't take wikipedia seriously. I think it is fine for what it is: gives you quick information on a wide variety of topics. People really need to use google to get a bigger picture on any person or thing. Not sure why anyone would want to use wikipedia as the only source on anything.
I think wikipedia is a great idea and a marvellous starting point. But I do agree with you, LeN. I'm not citing it in any serious context -- it's just easier to start reading there than somewhere like Encyclopedia Britannica.
Britannica doesn't have some of the more pop culture kind of stuff either.
I particularly enjoy the weird off-branching fact-following I can do on Wikipedia, which is theoretically possible on a digital encyclopedia, but NSM in practice. Also, most encyclopedias don't go into the obsessive detail that Wikipedia encourages. The baseball slang entry is full of slang people don't even use any more (and plenty people do), and it's just too specialized a topic for an actual refereed encyclopedia.
it's just too specialized a topic for an actual refereed encyclopedia
Yup. Today's featured article was about Arrested Development. I was also using it to look up a lot of stuff about specific naval warships that you'd never find in Britannica, but would in something like Jane's Fighting Ships.
