I've been having a play with some new (to me) technology this weekend in the form of Bittorrent and it's really very good.
I have been struggling with my poor IT set-up at home though: I have an HP laptop that lives in the house and runs a copy of XP pro that I (cough) happened to have, this machine is the one that I do most of my non-work stuff on and try new software on too.
The other machine is a Dell Laptop that belongs to work and is also XP but I don't mess with this one (much).

I have one Broadband connection and on the end of it is a USB ADSL modem, no router or anything flash like that! I also have no network at home to allow me to connect the two machines together. This suits me fine.

So the struggle I have had is that I have got myself "something" from bittorrent that I want to amuse myself with when I'm away tomorrow, it's just over 700mb and it's on the HP machine at the moment. I want it on the Dell.

Could I figure out how to do it? Well, yes I did eventually (sorry about that anti-climax). Ideally I'd have an external DVD writer but that means actually paying for something and that's not my bag, baby. I do have a cat5 cross-over cable but I could not get the two machines to connect to each other, I will try it again for next time though.

I thought about sending the file through infrared, but at 700mb that might have taken a while. Eventually I got myself a bit of file splitter software and transferred the file between machines on my USB flash drive in a few chunks.

After stitching them all back together the bloody file wouldn't play!! It worked fine on the HP but not on the Dell. After tearing out what's left of my hair and a bit of a google session I sussed out that the Dell didn't have the correct Divx thingy installed and now it has, result!

I have to get up in 5 and a bit hours.