We got a really late start today, everyone slept in until 11:30. I got another good night's sleep on the couch, I figgered out how to anchor the center cushion and what I was doing to dislodge it.
After the second pot of coffee and more struggling with the computer, JD and I went down to the campus to figger out what we had done wrong. We went to the library, hoping to find a WIN95 machine in order to probe it's innards and keep face by not exposing ourselves to the nerds in the computer center. Alas, all of the library machines were running WIN-NT on a LAN. We messed around a while, anyway, learning that we couldn't get anything useful from the machines. Then JD pointed out the pamphlets that were available and we started going through them.
Lo and Behold! There was one on connecting a WIN95 machine to the web! And... it had completely different DNS numbers! So we grabbed the pamphlets and beat our way home.
And we set it up that way it said to, and it worked! I am so happy!
More later....
So we spent the afternoon/evening majorly geeking. I'm teaching JD and Lisa HTML, we got their WEB sites set up... they're pretty rudementary right now.
JD and I spent the evening in continued geeking, working on his page until the computer started locking up on a regular basis. It seems to be overheating, and a tomorrow project is blowing the dust out of it. It is very, very slow in the best of times; it is a 486-66 with eight Megs of Ram, the minimum for running WIN95. Lisa had some friends over, they were watching a couple of movies. JD and I went outside and watched the stars and talked about a lotta shit while we were waiting for the computer to cool off. Religion, atheism and the role of the WEB on future generations were the topics. He kinda has the idea that the web is a fad, and I strongly disagree with that. I hold the belief that the web is a buttress against any attempt of certain sectors driving us into another dark age.
We went to bed around 01:00, anticipating getting up early and doing some hiking....
More tomorrow....
I'm enjoying teaching them, though. They are both looking forward to developing their sites more. Most of my teaching will be long-distance, though.