I’ve been keeping most of my activity to the link blog as I have nothing terribly significant to report. Oh! My brother and I did head down to see my father this weekend to help him with a little technical support for his computer woes. The problem with his home computer was simple, but ultimately my fault for not enabling the particular setting when I last had his computer at my disposal. Later we went down to his office to work on his network there. Here’s what I learned: Windows Service Pack 2 enables the firewall by default when you install it and thus cuts off computers on the same workgroup. This is frustrating, and I’m sure it has annoyed millions of people.