Mean people suck

I just read a reminder article from ZDNet news (picked up from from Reuters) about yet another malicious attack on the unsuspecting computer public. This one involves the Adobe Portable Document Format. You can read more about that here and here (and lots of other places, I'm sure), if you wish. You can get the latest version of Acrobat Reader® containing the update from Adobe.

Dammit.

Maybe I'm naive or something, but I sure do wish people would quit trying to mess up other people's computers. I don't understand the impulse that drives people to be malicious towards each other. I've tried to understand it, I really have. But I can't.

I know: "Why can't we all just get along?" (This quotation, by the way, is mistakenly attributed to Rodney King. However, what he really said, in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, was "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" The closest I've found so far is from the movie Mars Attacks. Funny movie, but I digress.)

Can anyone explain to me why we're so damn mean to each other? I feel sad every time I think about it. If we were truly nice to each other, wouldn't this be a better world?

Any thoughts?

Where's my computer?

My better half decided that more space was needed for her craft-works. OK.
My (our) computers have to be moved. OK.
I moved the main one today and fortunately, I like the new location. Unfortunately, the other one won't fit in the new location. So it looks as though I've got to find a new place for the secondary PC. And I'm going to have to install wireless cards to each PC, so they can talk to each other and the laptop.

It will be good thing.

Except that wireless networking is still pretty much midnight voodoo magic to me. I have set up the wireless router for the laptop and that works great! The laptop is happily surfing the internet in all its wireless glory. Now for the interesting part. My router requires a password that, to my knowledge, it has never been assigned. I haven't a clue what it might be nor how to find it. Hell, I don't even know what the user ID is having also never assigned one to the router. But the laptop surfs.

The wired network runs through this same router. The two PC's talk together very nicely. Well, they did before I moved one of them into a new location. For the life of me, I cannot get the two PC's to talk to or recognize the laptop and vice versa. Maddening. Maybe putting all into the wireless network will allow them to speak to each other. Wish me luck.

Any thoughts you may have are welcome at this point.

Pax,
N.

p.s. Meanwhile, the fight we had last night has blown over and all is forgiven (I think, hope and pray).