computers and stuff 
Well this past week has been fun and frustrating as @#$%. My husband finally finished building me a box to put my Linux into. Been wanting to play with it and see what I am missing since I mostly use Windows. Have a book and CD for Red Hat 8 so I load it up.
I cheated and used the GUI interface to install - I know I should have used the command line. “Then I would really understand Linux.” Figured I had to crawl before I walk (never mind run) so here I am. Have been playing around with it and even started writing a tutorial on PHP and forms just for the heck of it. (Please don’t say it - I know I’m odd thinking that is fun.) Anyway went to save to the floppy…. and couldn’t figure out how. 
Spent about an hour trying to do it before I finally went to the Internet. Googled and found out it isn’t easy to do like in Windows… so left it for another day.
My husband also bought a wireless access point to hook up to the current main computer to make a wireless network (also got cable internet this weekend so want to access it through the laptops). Could find the network but couldn’t connect. Read the instructions - says we need a router. So go and buy a wireless router. Set up the network according to the directions - can see the network, and connect, but can not access the cable internet available on the main computer. Try every kind of configuration we can think of and that is as close as we can get. Will be contacting technical support for the router later on and see if they can help me get the network up.
Eventually want to make the Linux box the server for a local wireless network - but am not quite there yet. Maybe I should first learn how to mount and write to a floppy be fore I get all ambitious. Hehe - it will all get done eventually. Though I am dreading reading the tome for Linux I have waiting at home.
