A Watershed Moment

First let me open this post with "Viacom sucks". After reading & viewing videos from regular folks like you and me who got censored due to Viacom's uber-agressive pursuit of 'copyright infringement' I am totally down on that conglom. Not that it will be hard, but I'm boycotting their holdings (wait, is MTV even running anymore?). Remember: Viacom sucks.

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Onto more important matters.

omfg
I got a shiny new laptop a few days ago (name is GoGo) and in doing so, ignored the little gnawing doubt in my gut that the OS it came with -- Windows Vista -- would be solid. I have geek friends back in New York who would rip me down if they heard that I a) bought another Sony Vaio and b) one that came with Vista. But whatever.
Regardless, I've spent the past couple of days trying to learn the little tricks and features of the OS while also trying to network it to my desktop PC which runs XP Media Edition (again a Sony). Things did not go well. First, I found waaaay to many returns on the search "Vista & XP networking trouble" and second, none of the forums I found that addressed the topic contained any clear solution. I perservered on this issue in the background while I've been (actually) doing some paid work.
I am proud to announce that this afternoon, at approximately 4.15pm, I successfully got my XP machine and the Vista (wireless) to see each other, and allow file transfer between them. What does this mean? To you, almost nothing. To me, the myriad of porn multimedia morsels that reside up there (including Tivo'd stuff) is now available to me on the go.

Don't forget:

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Update: (8.15pm) Both machines have dropped off the network and are unable to 'see' each other. Whatever. Vista blows. Guess I'll just shut off my firewall, turn on total sharing and wait for my identity to get duped a thousand times and wind up on the Internet.