Maybe this is how they felt in the early days of TV with tubes and transistors.
Good news: I figured out to burn more than one show on a blank DVD. I burned three "Seinfeld" episodes (including the one about Festivus, which is called "The Strike."). It’s a simple function.
Bad news: I cannot get the wireless, USB-connected adapter to work. My Media Center PC does not like it. The PC freezes once I put the adapter in the USB slot. Then, I realized that perhaps the driver install didn’t work, and it didn’t. Now, for some reason, the PC will not read the Linxys install disc no matter what drive it’s in (E or F). Without Internet access, this exercise is relatively moot.
Some options:
- Call HP again and/or Linxys. The HP CSA told me that the machine does not like USB peripherals. That’s not good news.
- Move this PC to my home office where I can give it hard-wired Internet access. But then, I’d have to kick my daughter out and move her to the spot where the Media Center PC lives. I could put the new adapter on her PC (assuming it takes), but I don’t like her having Internet access in an unsupervised location. I could drop some SW on her machine to track where she’s going, but that’s an invasion of privacy.
- String a 500-foot Ethernet cable from my home office to the location of the Media Center PC. That will look like crap.
- Buy a second cable modem and pay Cox another $30 a month. I don’t think so!
Stay tuned.
