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I have a task to do soon. It isn't something that I am scared of either. For Emma's birthday (one day after mine) we are giving her a computer. Don't get all worked up, we aren't rich, we are giving her an old one that I'm planning on adding to our network. I can't wait to have three computers all on our network playing nice and sharing the same printer. Basically it is intended for her school reports and some minor gaming (like tween games or associated websites). There are a few things that I need to take care of, should be fun!
1) I need to get a new monitor. I am going to give Emma one of the monitors that I am using for my dual monitor system now. Then I am going to buy a nice new flat-panel LCD. Should clear up a bit of room on my desk, I like the sound of that.
2) Emma's computer currently has a regular network card, but I am going to pop that out and throw in a wireless network card. I can't really think of too many reasons to have all the computers in the same room clustered around the router when I have a secure wireless network set up around here. Freedom to rearrange the furniture!
3) I am going to enable some of the parental controls on Internet Explorer, and install AVG virus scanner. Especially since the computer is going to be in the girl's bedroom (not permanently but for now, until we find a better place for it) when Emma is having 7 girls over for a slumber party in a couple weeks! Not that I think Emma would be doing anything nefarious, but you never know with a bunch of people in the house.
4) A few weeks ago I got everything set up for printer-sharing on our network. Our printer is connected to my computer, but it is so much better having Michelle be able to print her own stuff without me having to copy it to my computer and then print it. It wasn't all that tough either, I just had to actually sit down and figure it out, and now that I have the experience I think it will be a lot quicker and simpler to tie in Emma's computer for the printer too.
And that really should be the pinnicle for our network here, three computers on the network. Two of them wireless, and a third hard-wired to the router. All with printer sharing. And my main system has two monitors and is maxed out on RAM. Isn't that full geek fulfillment? I guess this means that I will need to start a wish list for an entirely new level of interesting toys.
1) I need to get a new monitor. I am going to give Emma one of the monitors that I am using for my dual monitor system now. Then I am going to buy a nice new flat-panel LCD. Should clear up a bit of room on my desk, I like the sound of that.
2) Emma's computer currently has a regular network card, but I am going to pop that out and throw in a wireless network card. I can't really think of too many reasons to have all the computers in the same room clustered around the router when I have a secure wireless network set up around here. Freedom to rearrange the furniture!
3) I am going to enable some of the parental controls on Internet Explorer, and install AVG virus scanner. Especially since the computer is going to be in the girl's bedroom (not permanently but for now, until we find a better place for it) when Emma is having 7 girls over for a slumber party in a couple weeks! Not that I think Emma would be doing anything nefarious, but you never know with a bunch of people in the house.
4) A few weeks ago I got everything set up for printer-sharing on our network. Our printer is connected to my computer, but it is so much better having Michelle be able to print her own stuff without me having to copy it to my computer and then print it. It wasn't all that tough either, I just had to actually sit down and figure it out, and now that I have the experience I think it will be a lot quicker and simpler to tie in Emma's computer for the printer too.
And that really should be the pinnicle for our network here, three computers on the network. Two of them wireless, and a third hard-wired to the router. All with printer sharing. And my main system has two monitors and is maxed out on RAM. Isn't that full geek fulfillment? I guess this means that I will need to start a wish list for an entirely new level of interesting toys.
posted by Tim @ 1:05 PM
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