Light posting

I'm between laptops right now, so posting will be light for a few days. I have the new one, and still have the old, but changing over isn't as smooth as I'd hoped. The negative things I heard about Vista networking (nearly as poor as XP) are well founded.

Question for people smarter than I: Why won't Vista give me a pop-up box asking, "Would you like to create an ad-hoc, wireless network to computer XYZ?" when sitting next to an XP computer? Why is networking so much more time-consuming than connecting to a wireless hotpot? It doesn't need to be, except perhaps for security. If you're thinking, "That guy should have bought a Mac," hold your tongue. I'm too cheap for Mac, and I have an unbelievable amount of software for Windows, so I can't (won't?) change.

Enough of that. I hope to be fully functional soon.