on being the lex for a day (<-- month moar laik)

[dubdobdee]

i: can haz nu mac book wahoo!
ii: need to access interweb via broadband
iii: old imac has broadband via landline (supplied by lovely problem-free nildram)
iv: what do i do to tap into it? (am checking with nildram if i need a router that's specific to their services)

i am in no tremendous hurry -- i want to do this all orderly and sensible for once, not just busk

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yikes :(

don't know what "airport" pane is

is any of this related to "appletalk" (which is disabled as i currently connect thru PPoE)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oo is "airport pane" the dropdown with lots of options?

viz:
wbeshuttle dsl
internal modem
built-in ethernet
network port configurations <--- is this the magic button/

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

this is on your macbook. in system preference > network

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

looking something like

http://tokerud.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/15/network_system_preference.png

(this is all assuming that the internet sharing on the imac is working ok.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

aha! but macbook not yet started up as v.early in start-up it arsks me questions i cannot answer re interwebs network desired -- but i haven't firewired it up to this imac yet, to download necessary info, as i was afeared of dl-ing all the spyware crap that is clogging up my imac

(i will never tease the lex again) (this week)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

my attitude to any and all computer-related teasing is a slightly smug "just you wait and see". I consider myself VINDICATED here!