h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm kiddin', you 'nana. It was a telly. Threshers receipt would be fine. You've just got to pick a shop that's employing work experience kiddies who can't read.

That's toppermost, that is. Actually, it's pootoo soon. Better get the number.



Night night.

I hate Pootoo

N'night,

You rang them didn't you? You spent all night droning on and on so much about flants and STRs and bogie wiches, all the nice engineers have had to go into rehab to get their brains readjusted, leaving the grumpy, rubbish engineers to be very unhelpful and make me do stuff myself.

Apparently, I *should* just be able to plug Notgerty into my modem and it will work all magic and by itself.

So, I'm going to give it a go. Therefore, I'd just like to say goodbye, it's been a blast, remember me kindly.

By the boo, I found something that *looks* like it's a much easier way to become wireless. Summat called HomePlug Powerline Networking, Devolo - MICROLINK DLAN HIGHSPEED KIT. Would you mind terribly casting a glance a la Googlage with your Stephen Hawking hat on and telling me your thunks?

Best leave summat for Trin's crisp packet break

I got carried away and took it upon myself to practice the STRs story on them. I've got to get it word perfect for when tiny Footie's mind is ready to be corrupted by rambles.

Well? 2 hours later and you're online - did it work?

Yes sah, right away, sah! *salutes*



Can I have a ciggie first?

Poowillybumfluff you've buggered off.

No, no, here I am. I was trying to find a way of transfering all my folders and wotnot over to Notgerty via email, except I don't know how. I hate Outlook, I don't understand it!

Outlook is poo.

I've just had a quick little look at the thing. £115 for the starter kit.

Have you seen it cheaper?

Oh, and have I ever mentioned to you about special wires?

I've never known how to use the damn thing. Every couple of months or so it pops up, so I spend about 2 or 3 hours trying to make it do something and that's when it gets to tree time out time

So, I'll just have to leave all my stuff on big pc until I get all wirelessy.

I have, what think you?

http://accessories.virginmedia.com/webstore/CNETrelated/ExtendedInformation.aspx?which=related&ExtendedCode=S2830573%20%20%20%20&ExtendedProdCode=N150038&CatCode=SELF5205

Special wires?*thinks* Sp-e-c-i-a-l w-i-r-e-s. No, nope, don't think I've heard you speak of them before.

It sounds alright. Same sort of price as the wireless routers I've seen plus you'll be able to connect the big 'un to the little 'un.

I think I've just solved a Dave problem with special wire rememberings.

Cor, wires are brill, aren't they? I'm gonna have a wire 'wich for tea.

What appealed most to me was the 'plug in, turn on, make a cuppa' easability of it. Can't be that simple, surely

So, does 'alright' mean 's'alright, in a shruggy shoulder better than nothing, it'll do' kind of way, or 'alright' as in 'Woah! That's some freaky plug in shit bebe, turn on, tune in, flump out' kinda way?

Does special wire have a name for with which to request from the pimply goblin behind the Argooos counter?

Linkys:

http://www.routertech.org/viewtopic.php?t=1013&view=previous

(I love geeks. )

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Devolo_MicroLink_DLAN_Ethernet__Review_5531811

It sounds simple enough. And, apparently, safer than normal wifi too cos people can't dash into your house and hijack your plug sockets.

'Alright' in a 'it sounds good only I've not heard of it before and I don't want to be the one to blame if your guinnee pig experiment goes wrong' sort of way. It does sound alright in a good way.

I was thinking of an external hard drive that you could plug into big PC to copy all of your wotsits onto, then plug into NotGerty and transfer them onto there. You can get them for about 20 spoons.

But if you got the thing with the incredibly long name plug socket doodah then you wouldn't need it.

Going for a wired 'wich.

Linkys

I just read the first 6 or so poststhey speak in a strange tongue I know not. But I *think* the general consensus of opinion was a good one. And they're geeks, so they should know right?

It'll be a month or so before I can get the spoonage together. Just discovered this morning that I owed £150 on my credit card that I completely forgot about spending and I've spent all my money anyway. So, no food for he childs for the next month

Pfft! The stuff can sit on big pc until I get the wiffyplugs. There's only one or two deeply important top secret sensitive documents on my bid for world domination, but that can take a backseat until the weather warms up a little anyway. I think it's always best to pick a nice sunny day when taking over the world, don't you?

Ta very muchly for your professional opinions and wotnots, I'm deeply grateful. Your Curlywurlys are in the post.

If you stare at their language hard and long enough it becomes a magic eye piccie of a spotty geek wearing trousers at half mast with a big thumbs up.

Send him to each of his mates houses for tea on rotation and get him to bring you back doggy bags of their lovely bestolen expensiveware.

I went to the tat shop to have a big spending palava at dinner time and came away with far too few spoons for the size of the bag.

>>Professional<< Was clicking and hitting Dave last weekend nearly in tears trying to get him to work like a good flipflap. Professional flip flap fudger.

*stompstompstompstomp*

Don't ask. Just don't ask.

Oh you can't, you're not here. I'll tell you anyway!

Dismantled big pc and reassembled in childs room. Set Notgerty up, went to plug her into the modem...the plug thing won't fit. It's too small.

Called the helpline. Spoke to one of the most unintelligble droney flarkwits I've ever come across...until I called back and got to speak with his colleague. Equally numptied!

Notgerty apparently needs to be connected via USB doodahs, but *they* don't support USB connected doobries and won't fix things if they go wrong, because regardless, it'll be all my fault, just for having a USB thing.

Understand? No. Me neither.

"So get me a modem with thingys that fit!"

(No. We don't do them.)

I also have to have a disc sent to me (in 5-7 working days ma'am) that makes Notgerty work with a USB (although we don't recommend this) as she won't work without it.

I think that I need to maybe try to find a way of getting the wiffyplugs sooner rather than later.


This is all your fault for making me buy a flipflap

Big pain in the arse, ey? She'll be worth it once you get her sorted.

It's just that the getting it sorted makes you feel like inserting USB connectors into people.

How can they not support USB ports? Surely they're the most common way of connecting your computer to doodahs.

That's stupid.

Don't be mad. I got you a prezzie.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/7765/polarcubv.jpg

What's an ethernet port? And what for is it?