Month: October 2002

I came home tonight to find a copy of HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS, 5th Edition, Visual Quickstart Guide in my mailbox. free. signed. with my name in the acknowledgements. I was a betatester – pretty thorough for the first few chapters, but then I got overtaken by moving and never finished entering my suggestions. (hell, I never got around to sending her my URL. d’oh!)

this is an excellent book. I say that without even having read the final version…a while back, I was thinking about writing my own introductory guide to XHTML, because I was tired of reading intro books, sites, etc. that taught people how to do it wrong. no need to do that in this day & age. 🙂 but as I was reading the draft of Liz’s book, I was constantly blown away by her clarity and completeness. I’m thrilled to have had the opportunity to read as much as I did in the book’s early stages, and even more so to have a shiny new copy sitting on my desk.

“People could soon be sending e-mail from the hillsides, roadsides and rooftops of the south Wales valleys with the expansion of Europe’s densest wireless internet network. […] Run by non-profit enthusiasts backed by the Welsh Development Agency, the initiative already gives free high-speed internet access to users in a 10sqkm catchment area in the city using five roof- mounted antennae.”

as seen on the BBC site (via RebeccaB)
(also see the arwain site)

neat.

how to share an internet connection in Win2K

but I want something with more diagrams. 🙂

the “dummies” (marketing-speak) version:
Using connection sharing is quite simple. You start by picking one of your computers to act as the single Internet connection, and then install a modem or a second interface card (for the DSL or cable-modem link) and set up an ISP account. In the settings for that account, select the box for Enable Internet Connection Sharing. Windows 2000 Professional automatically sets up your network addresses, configures itself as the gateway to the Internet, creates the path to the name services on the Internet, and lets all the computers in your network share a single IP address to talk to Web servers and other systems on the Internet. And, because it includes a self-configuring Network Address Translator, your PCs are hidden from the Internet to prevent unauthorized access.

but, strangely enough, I can’t find basic “how to network two computers” information.

easy home network tutorial! (although it seems to assume 98…then again, that’s what we have on one of the computers, isn’t it?) also see home networking with TCP/IP and Microsoft Windows

50′ yellow Belkin crossover cable (at CompUSA)