Brief explanation of implementing Extreme Programming (XP) for you next project.

This article purports to explain how to set up an ad hoc wireless network that can share a single wired internet connection.

Quoted: This article descibes how to configure computers running Windows XP to share an Internet connection using an ad hoc wireless network.

I'm having a bear of a time trying to set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) so that I can have one computer set up to my hotel's wired internet connection, and then share that internet connection via an ad-hoc Wifi connection to a second computer in our hotel room.

ICS is amazingly poorly documented, as well as seeming very difficult to set up a success ad-hoc wifi network.

- My wifi card seems to be using a 169.254.x.x address - but the documentation I've read said to expect it to expose 192.168.0.1.
- My shared WiFi connection does not expose a DHCP server - so clients are not getting an address or Gateway IP address from my machine.

And besides this, it's very common for Windows networking to just hang for minutes at a time and not return control to the calling user interface. There's just about no other piece of software I use that sucks as bad as windows networking.

Another case of Microsoft's "cure" being worse than the disease. I can't extract a ZIP'ed files download from Google Documents, and it tells me that the file is potentially dangerous, so it won't let me open it.

Here's the rub, unlike the dialog shown here, I don't have an "Unblock" option in my file properties - so I'm just flat locked out of a file I want to open.

... I think I traced my particular problem to an invalid ZIP file. The file names include a ":" character, which, I guess, is not allowed. Even WinZip was refusing to open these files (though it told me correctly that it was a file name problem, and not a security problem - MS gave me the WRONG ERROR MESSAGE).