Fuck 3rd party wireless networking apps.

[ghostsofgiants]

Pain in the asssssssss!

[Maddy McCall]

1. Swore your post said "panty."

:blush:

[ghostsofgiants]

8. Haha, tsk tsk.

Get your mind out of the gutter, young lady. :P

[MrCoffee]

2. Fuck 'em!

I don't really have any experience with 3rd party wireless networking apps, but if you say they're a pain in the assssssssss, I'm in.


Let's burn their office down.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Word.

They're a necessity for Windows 2000, because it doesn't have its own built in wireless networking, but on Windows XP, they're completely superfluous and cause more trouble than they're worth. And if I'm trying to trouble shoot a wireless setup, the customer usually has no fucking clue, so I'm stuck trying to blindly guess which they have and it's usually one that I have no documentation for so I have to keep blindly guessing until they're connected.

[tigereye]

4. I have more sympathy for you after I had to be on the phone for an hour with

the Verizon guy here after my husband had spent hours setting up our office wireless. (my husband's a software geek and even he hates dealing with in, in situ.) As a side issue, they are much nicer to you when you get business wireless, than in-home.


And I had had to be on the phone for 2 hours with my husband setting it up in the first place, after he had already set up all the hardware. :crazy:


thanks for your great effort to keep the clueless masses wireless!

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Haha, I do wht I can.

Though I'm not gonna lie, I have entertained the thought of getting a new job assuming I can find one that will match or beat my current pay, haha.

[Kutjara]

5. Sony are big offenders in that respect, as are...

Acer and HP. No, I don't want some glitzy "Network Center" to manage all my connections. Just the normal Windows wifi tool is fine, thanks.

Of course, Sony love to stick all manner of "helper" (pronounced "hinderer") apps on their Vaios. This is particularly galling for us Linux geeks, because it makes it very difficult to get half of the laptop's features working, without coding replacements for Sony's bloatware.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Dell as well.

And Toshiba. They pretty much all do it.

[Kutjara]

9. That's why I stick to Lenovo. The Thinkpads are very Linux friendly. n/t