I just spend 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out why I couldn't get a mini ethernet network set up between my laptop and my iMac (to transfer some large files without waiting forever to do it over the wireless network I use for most things). No matter what I did, I just couldn't get the machines to see each other—in fact, I couldn't even get the iMac to show the ethernet port as anything but inactive. I even unplugged and replugged the network cable, to make sure it wasn't something stupid like a loose wire.
If only it had been something that stupid, instead of something much, much stupider. You see, I'm very used to my G4, with the tower on the floor next to my desk, and the monitor on my desk. And because I haven't yet decommissioned the G4, the tower is still sitting next to my desk. Right next to where I set the laptop down. And the iMac really does look like it's just a monitor. I think we can all see where this is going...
Lesson learned: plugging in the ethernet cable is good, but it's even better to plug it into the right computer.
Category: Geek
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