have discovered that USB cablemodems tend to work better if you plug them into the machine you are actually trying to use them in. introduced
read most of Stranger in a Strange Land now. this is probably the least-well-ageing science fiction book i've ever read, due not to any technical advances or anachronisms or suchforth, but to the pervading misogyny in the work. you can tell stuff changed a lot between 1961 and 1966.