With all of the good design out there being applied to technology in general Apple products, why in the world can't someone come up with some simple way to mask all of the under-the-hood confusion when it comes to networking and present the common user with a simple UI — a reduced set of options leaving most of the work to be auto-configured or solved through a list of plain-language prompts? most cannot and should not be expected to understand TCP/IP, DHCP (manual or not), a slew of addresses, acronyms, etc. i wasted hours just now trying to get two computers to talk to each other (or at least acknowledge each others' presence) — an old beige Mac G3 running the old classic Mac OS, and an Intel Duo-Core iMac.
I just wanted to create a simple 2-computer network using a standard Ethernet cable.
Not rocket science. Or so I thought. Two different interfaces, some outmoded terminology on the old Mac, possibly some missing software on the G3 as well.
And if you were thinking of leaving a polite or even a condescending comment about how to do it — save your breath — the G3 (and its quaint standalone cathode-ray monitor) has been retired. Permanently.
Sigh.
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