Router, it is now set up

My mother is a sysadmin of a Beowulf cluster with something like five thousand nodes goddammit, why do I get to set up the household router?

Not like it's hard. But seriously.

WRT54G Linksys

Just gotta remember that the setup form is at http://192.168.1.1/ and it's intuitive from there.

However, getting my dad's slow XP home laptop to connect to the damn network was a problem. For some unknown fucking reason, the "Network Connections" dialogue (and all related dialogues that I could find) would only accept a WEP key, not the network password... which my personal laptop accepted just fine. I am obviously missing something important here. Anyway, everyone's all connected to the internet and stuff, so I'm going to go work on my own stuff now.

2 books: algorithms and Beowulf

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-4th-Robert-Sedgewick/dp/032157351X/

Pretty damn cool. Fucking long. Would be a pretty good textbook. Covers everything. Or at least a whole bunch of cool things. I want this one.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Build-Beowulf-Implementation-Application/dp/026269218X

I'd prefer a more specific book on the topic, but this is really relevant to what rancorbeast is doing right now. The long explanation of what Linux is in the middle is kinda er, why is this here?