To give a little background, my computer hadn't been wanting to connect to the internet here at the house, and I haven't been able to get anywhere with WiFi, to test if it was a hardware problem with the ethernet cable, or a software problem.
A few days a go, our friend Bill took my laptop apart looking to see if he could find a hardware problem. After about an hour of looking, he couldn't figure it out, so he put it back together and we left it alone for awhile.
Tonight, our friend Harvard came over, and spent at least two hours, if not more, looking for a problem with both the hardware and the software. He attempted a system restore... and accidentally deleted every single thing I had ever downloaded or uploaded to this computer. No, I wasn't mad (after all, he was just trying to help me), but I have to say, it was frustrating. Travis and I lost a couple of good scripts we were working on.
About twenty or thirty minutes ago, I walked over to it to see if there was any other possible solution. I looked at the ethernet jack. Without thinking much about it, I blew in it to clear the dust, and plugged the cable back in.
And wouldn't you know, it worked.
Moral of the story: Don't fix it if it ain't broke. Or, keep your electronics clean.
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