I swear that Perk's older brother works in the MailBoxes, Etc., here in Louisville.
It's either him, or someone that looks exactly what Perk will look like in about 5-7 years.
It is 4:53pm.
Dad's network is finally alive again.
And I don't know why.
At time T, we were at state A.
It didn't work.
We changed one thing, theoretically moving to state B.
This, of course, entailed a reboot.
State B didn't work. So we changed back to state A.
And rebooted.
Suddenly it worked.
And before you ask, I'm quite sure that we only changed one thing, and then changed it back. Yes, something changed during that time, but it sure as heck wasn't from something that we did -- Windoze did something internally.
I think that this is what bugs me most of all about Windoze -- its nondeterminism. It doesn't matter how smart you are, nor how much you know about computers: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There are absolutely no guarantees about consistent behavior in Windoze.
I'm just bitter at the end of a long, frustrating day where I got absolutely nothing done. <sigh>
The uptime on my desktop linux box is 98 days and counting.