Tonight was the first time in a long, LONG time I ever wanted to throw my computer into a brick wall. Repeatedly.
AtomFilms has a Bullwinkle short I wanted to watch. For some stupid reason, their site absolutely refuses to recognize I have Flash installed on not one but two browsers (Safari & Firefox), so I had to resort to that most evil of programs, IE.
IE kept trying to connect to 127.0.0.1 instead of AtomFilms. That looked like a proxy address (a null one at that), so I went to the preferences to get rid of the goddamn thing.
I hate proxies.
Anyway, I get rid of the damn thing. The numbers pop right back up since this particular function is linked to the Network Preferences in OS X. Fine. I fix it in the Network Preferences. Uncheck the HTTP Proxy box, delete the IP address, delete the port.
Your network settings have been changed by another application. The proxy pops right back up.
God. Dammit.
I do it again.
Your network settings have been changed by another application.
I run through every application I can think of that may have some need for an internet connection. All the ones I find are linked to the OS X preference.
Okay, maybe I'll just leave it be. Except now not one of the three browsers work, iTunes won't connect to the Store, iChat doesn't work, Mail doesn't connect...all those programs requiring to some sort of external network connection don't work.
Now the Windoze thinking sets in. Maybe if I reboot...
Nope. Goddamn proxy is still there.
I hate proxies.
On a whim, I set up a new user profile for my DSL. Maybe that fixed it. Nope. Proxy still there.
I'm not sure how I did it, but somehow I ended up in Mail. I think I clicked a "click here for help" link thinking it went to an internal help library, not an email help request. However, I was a bit shocked to hear Agent 86 inform me that I had mail.
I did too. Two pieces of spam, but the network worked again--even with that godforsaken proxy (same IP address too).
So now I'm befuddled. Online, but still befuddled.
AtomFilms has a Bullwinkle short I wanted to watch. For some stupid reason, their site absolutely refuses to recognize I have Flash installed on not one but two browsers (Safari & Firefox), so I had to resort to that most evil of programs, IE.
IE kept trying to connect to 127.0.0.1 instead of AtomFilms. That looked like a proxy address (a null one at that), so I went to the preferences to get rid of the goddamn thing.
I hate proxies.
Anyway, I get rid of the damn thing. The numbers pop right back up since this particular function is linked to the Network Preferences in OS X. Fine. I fix it in the Network Preferences. Uncheck the HTTP Proxy box, delete the IP address, delete the port.
Your network settings have been changed by another application. The proxy pops right back up.
God. Dammit.
I do it again.
Your network settings have been changed by another application.
I run through every application I can think of that may have some need for an internet connection. All the ones I find are linked to the OS X preference.
Okay, maybe I'll just leave it be. Except now not one of the three browsers work, iTunes won't connect to the Store, iChat doesn't work, Mail doesn't connect...all those programs requiring to some sort of external network connection don't work.
Now the Windoze thinking sets in. Maybe if I reboot...
Nope. Goddamn proxy is still there.
I hate proxies.
On a whim, I set up a new user profile for my DSL. Maybe that fixed it. Nope. Proxy still there.
I'm not sure how I did it, but somehow I ended up in Mail. I think I clicked a "click here for help" link thinking it went to an internal help library, not an email help request. However, I was a bit shocked to hear Agent 86 inform me that I had mail.
I did too. Two pieces of spam, but the network worked again--even with that godforsaken proxy (same IP address too).
So now I'm befuddled. Online, but still befuddled.
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Still. It's so pretty.