I just spent a half hour trying to make the clamshell iBook accept that it was directly connected to a hub and could in fact access the internet. It did not believe me and I eventually gave up in disgust. I knew there was a reason it had been living on a shelf for the past year or so.

Well, that, and it’s as slow as molasses in January through a 2400 baud modem. I’d have better luck haxx0ring teh intarwebbs with this:

Incidentally, yes, it is mine. Yes, it works. And yes, I’m pretty sure it does tap directly into the Matrix.

The Matrix from Neuromancer, by the way, not the other one.