The new year is here, so happy 12 months of 28-31 days per and all that jazz. Jazz hands if you got them (or jazz paws, jazz hooves, etc. I'm not discriminatory). If you're not a fan of jazz, it's okay too.

Today I learned my first new thing of the year:

WEP sucks. :p


Couldn't get online all of yesterday with a laptop onto a WEP network, but today I tried a network with a newer encryption key and it works just fine (Wpa2 i think). I could say it's because this laptop is win7 and wep is too old, but there's another win7 laptop next to me that is on the wep network... and even copying the profile off that didn't help.

So... I dunno. The router just hates me I guess.

It's like having a yellow piece of paper and three blue crayons. The first two blue crayons leave green marks on the yellow paper. The third blue crayon leave a purple mark. That's the logic behind my time yesterday working with wireless networks.

I'm reminded of the mysterious keyboard issue on this one mac computer. With the keyboard the mac refused to boot up. But the keyboard worked fine with the other macs and a different keyboard (same model though) worked fine on the mac in question. Computers can be that fickle.

This, incidently, reminds me why I stopped taking tech support jobs.

So the moral of the story: just buy a green crayon. :D

Happy New Year!