{"id":2669,"date":"2002-12-19T02:28:38","date_gmt":"2002-12-19T09:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/12\/pitfalls-of-outdated-software\/"},"modified":"2002-12-19T02:28:38","modified_gmt":"2002-12-19T09:28:38","slug":"pitfalls-of-outdated-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/19\/pitfalls-of-outdated-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitfalls of outdated software"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe Frisco Chronicle relays a columnist’s troubles with setting up a little one-computer Wi-Fi network<\/a> at home:<\/p>\n

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But setting up a Wi-Fi network is still full of pitfalls for the novice user. Indeed, even veteran computer users often need to spend minutes — or hours — on the phone with tech support to work out an array of minor bugs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a sad tale of woe, all because the writer runs Windows 98, a pre-WiFi operating system, and he hasn’t kept it up to date with the latest patches, let alone the extensions enabling WiFi support. So he had problems he didn’t understand, which he resolved by updating system files one-by-one until it worked. Having installed a half-dozen different WiFi products on Win2K and WinXP, and not having run into any of these problems, I wouldn’t be discouraged by this poor boy’s experience. Just keep your system up to date, or use an OS released in the WiFi era, and you’ll do fine — I hear even Macs<\/a> support WiFi now.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Frisco Chronicle relays a columnist’s troubles with setting up a little one-computer Wi-Fi network at home: But setting up a Wi-Fi network is still full of pitfalls for the novice user. Indeed, even veteran computer users often need to spend minutes — or hours — on the phone with tech support to work out … Continue reading “Pitfalls of outdated software”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-H3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}