getting out of LA

Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 06:16AM

By Eric Richardson

Kathy and I are up in the bay area right now, on a quick trip to catch up with Alan before he flies off to Hawaii. We drove up yesterday, are hanging out here until Thursday morning, and then we'll turn around and make our way back down the 5 to LA.

The friends we're staying with have wireless, but my ever-helpful laptop has decided not to cooperate with it. It sends out DHCP discovers, and the DHCP server sends back an offer, but the laptop refuses to carry through and get to the request and ACK stage. Watching the network I can see all the appropriate packets going where they should, but then my machine decides to just pretend it's deaf. I love when it does that.