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i am making my confused face.
i had a thought a minute ago, but it went away.
does that ever happen to you? (of course it does. it happens to everybody. never mind.)
i'm a little brain-fried at the moment. first of all, my wireless connection is the least stable thing EVAR, and it's been driving me bats for four days now. secondly, i am on vacation but about to be faced with the unavoidable reality of schoolwork that has to be done before i go back. and thirdly, i've been hip-deep in iTunes for days on end. my brother and sister-in-law gave me five CDs of mp3's -- so this is, like, a LOT of music files -- last summer. and i loaded these into iTunes and thence to the ol' iPod, but the thing is that they're mostly not named in the way iTunes likes things to be named. instead of having the details arranged by title and artist, that is to say, the filenames are "Artist-Title" and all this goes into the "title" slot in iTunes and makes sorting Very Difficult. additionally, many of them have snappy titles like "track 7", which is totally unhelpful. (interestingly, the details in Get Info are correct in such cases -- but the filename is still "track 7", so i can't know that.) anyway, also because of this naming issue, iTunes can't actually find the files because they're not in the iTunes music folder in subfolders by artist -- i don't know how it found them before, and i don't think i've moved them, but whatever -- so here's me going through iTunes one song at a time, choosing "get info", listening to it tell me it can't find the original file, showing it where the original file is, changing the info (title and artist only -- i mostly don't know the album, and i don't care as much), and saving it as genre "pop/rock". i figure i start broad with genres, and classify later -- i've got holiday (read: christmas), a capella (...), comedy (for capitol steps and forbidden broadway/hollywood), showtunes (for other cast albums), spoken word (for books on tape), soundtrack (film), classical (other orchestral/choral), and pop/rock (everything else). there's going to have to be some rethinking of that, obviously, but i'll deal with that once i've showed iTunes where to find all these damned songs.
five. discs'. worth. of. m. p. 3's.
so i'm about 1/3 of the way through the last disc. and then i'll go back and pick up the stragglers -- there were some things i couldn't find. might have to dig out the original discs again for them. or something.
oy.
also, have made the switch to semagic. i had been using that other client (lj_win32 or something?), but it seems this is better. w00t.
does that ever happen to you? (of course it does. it happens to everybody. never mind.)
i'm a little brain-fried at the moment. first of all, my wireless connection is the least stable thing EVAR, and it's been driving me bats for four days now. secondly, i am on vacation but about to be faced with the unavoidable reality of schoolwork that has to be done before i go back. and thirdly, i've been hip-deep in iTunes for days on end. my brother and sister-in-law gave me five CDs of mp3's -- so this is, like, a LOT of music files -- last summer. and i loaded these into iTunes and thence to the ol' iPod, but the thing is that they're mostly not named in the way iTunes likes things to be named. instead of having the details arranged by title and artist, that is to say, the filenames are "Artist-Title" and all this goes into the "title" slot in iTunes and makes sorting Very Difficult. additionally, many of them have snappy titles like "track 7", which is totally unhelpful. (interestingly, the details in Get Info are correct in such cases -- but the filename is still "track 7", so i can't know that.) anyway, also because of this naming issue, iTunes can't actually find the files because they're not in the iTunes music folder in subfolders by artist -- i don't know how it found them before, and i don't think i've moved them, but whatever -- so here's me going through iTunes one song at a time, choosing "get info", listening to it tell me it can't find the original file, showing it where the original file is, changing the info (title and artist only -- i mostly don't know the album, and i don't care as much), and saving it as genre "pop/rock". i figure i start broad with genres, and classify later -- i've got holiday (read: christmas), a capella (...), comedy (for capitol steps and forbidden broadway/hollywood), showtunes (for other cast albums), spoken word (for books on tape), soundtrack (film), classical (other orchestral/choral), and pop/rock (everything else). there's going to have to be some rethinking of that, obviously, but i'll deal with that once i've showed iTunes where to find all these damned songs.
five. discs'. worth. of. m. p. 3's.
so i'm about 1/3 of the way through the last disc. and then i'll go back and pick up the stragglers -- there were some things i couldn't find. might have to dig out the original discs again for them. or something.
oy.
also, have made the switch to semagic. i had been using that other client (lj_win32 or something?), but it seems this is better. w00t.
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I wasn't referring to your firewall -- although checking to see if it works fine without the firewall is probably a good idea. I am very uneasy about leaving networks unprotected, but you can work quickly, removing bits of security until it works, isolating what's causing the problem and fixing it also as quickly as possible (the more densely populated the area is or the easier it is to drive by and hack into the system, the more this matters -- it would have been hard for someone other than a neighbor, whom they know, to do so undetected at my parents' house).
What kind of security is being used on the network? That's what was interfering with mine, and the service pack seems to have done the job. The other question, of course, is whether you already have the service pack. Also, I'm running Windows XP Home Edition. . . .
Other than seeing what happens when you disable your firewall, you could try the following:
- Disable the security on the network. Do this by changing the wireless security option for the router to "none" by using the machine that controls the wireless router. That's the best I can do without seeing the machine -- but if it's that router everyone seems to own, then there should be an IP address (that will start with 192?) you type in to get to this and you'll need the administrative password to access it. Sorry, I just learned how to do this this week. . . .
- If you then stop having problems, put the security back on while you back your whole machine up.
- Turn the security back off so you have access.
- Download and install the security pack quickly.
- Turn the network security back on and pray!
In short, if the thing seems to work if you disable one or more security things, do what you can to make that security thing work. They apparently had lots of trouble with early releases of XP, and communication is much smoother if the security pack is installed.If it turns out that you do have a security measure that's interfering with legitimate communication and you can figure out which combinations work and which ones don't, then one of us should be able to help you make the network secure (to the extent that that ever is really possible) and function with your machine.
What exactly is it doing when it kicks you off the network? Is it even kicking you off the network, or is it doing something else to make wireless use iffy?
Has anyone in your house had problems in using other computers on the network?
A couple of other things that you have likely already tried:
Have you tried changing the channel (there should be 11 or 14)? Six is (often? sometimes? with the router my father has?) the default, but sometimes there is interference, and so you might try 1, 11, or any other number.
Have you moved the router high and away from metal?
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I don't know what kind of security is being used on the network. --
-- fast-forward, and actually, in looking to see if i could find the details, i saw where it recommended i uncheck the "use windows to configure etc. etc." button, and for now that seems to have done the trick.
stay tuned.
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Grr! and Yeah!?