The technology revolution continues at Chateau Permuted.
First off, I picked up a free data stick with my new laser printer (a Samsung ML-1510 for under £50. With the stick thrown in, that's almost nothing). Now I don't have a great deal of use for the data stick, so I started hunting around on the Opera forums to see if anyone had some useful ideas and came up with this thread: OPERA ON A STICK. Or in other words' How to make Opera truly portable.'
Great idea. Not only is it a handy way to carry bookmarks around, but I get to take my favourite browser with my own settings with me. Setting up was a breeze (read the thread carefully, especially the second page) using Jarrah's two zip files (opera-on-a-stick-a.zip and opera-on-a-stick-b.zip). I had to download WinRar to unzip the second file, but that took no time at all. All the details were spot on. Anyway, I've tested it on both the machines here (which have different drive configurations) and it's perfect. :hat:
I'm also about to go broadband, subject to all the usual line checks. This means setting up a wireless network. Haven't quite decided what set-up to get yet. And as I don't have any ethernet cards on the machines here I had planned to use two usb-ethernet wireless adapters to link to the router. Checked this out at the forum at ADSLguide.org.uk and discovered at least one pitfall: if I only use wireless connections to connect to the router, I have no way of talking to it should anything go wrong. 🙁 Good point; and some routers require a hard connection for initial set-ups apparently. So I'm going to have to open up one of the boxes here and instal an ethernet card. Had a quick look inside the box just now and it should be a breeze (famously last words, those). But to be honest, it looks simple enough, and at least the Dell box opens up easily.
So more fun ahead for me… Opera on the Move and broadband at home.
Couldn't ask for more!