OT: SOLVED: What Computer to Take to Coilege and Brand new iTouch for Sale

[Jon M. Hanson]

You can enable fixed IP addresses in OS X easily. You don't want a  
fixed IP address on something like a laptop that's going to roam to  
other networks though because it will not work very well if you don't  
have control over the network you're roaming to.

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On Jun 23, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Mark Phillips  
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

> Well, my daughter prevailed and decided to take a 13" Mac to college  
> instead of the awesome 13" Linux notebook I was offering to her  
> (Debian with Virtual Windows for iTunes.....it would have been  
> fantastic...). Her money, her choice. Alas, Lisa, she decided not to  
> go with the red case....it was my first choice as well...;-)
>
> I guess every family sooner or later has a macsheep of the family  
> pop up in the gene line......
>
> With the Mac we got a new shiny 8GB iTouch that we don't need. It is  
> still in the unopened highly un-green plastic box. If anyone is  
> interested in buying it, please let me know off list.
>
> Mark
>
> P.S. An amusing side note. We have a wired/wireless network at home.  
> All of our computers have a fixed IP address (many Linux, 1 Windows,  
> now a.........mac something). The wired router has DHCP enabled, but  
> not the wireless router. Anyway, she cannot connect the Mac wireless  
> network, so we called Apple. The agent on the line insisted that all  
> networks have to have DHCP enabled in order to work. In the Mac  
> networking screen, it has as options "DHCP" and "DHCP and manual",  
> where you enter a fixed IP address (but no netmask or other  
> networking bits). The agent said until we enable DHCP for the  
> wireless network, we had a broken network, and should call back  
> anther time when we had fixed the network problem, and then hung up!  
> My first experience with Apple support.....not very satisfying.
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