As mentioned earlier, the laptop died a while back. Well, no so much died, as was killed, but that’s enough guilt trip for one post.

Tuesday night, we bought a replacement. It’s a nice system - 2.8 Ghz celeron, 15″ widescreen, 512Mb ram (-64 for the shared video ram) and built in 802.11b/g wireless.

That last bit is nice, but the built in card couldn’t see my network. I called tech support, and they couldn’t help me either. I took advantage of that, and convinced Erin that we needed a new router, and since Futureshop had one on sale with the same chipset as the built in card, I thought we couldn’t go wrong. Luckily, for a change, I was right :>.

The funny thing is that while the router was listed on the futureshop website as $129.99-$20 instant rebate - $50 mail in rebate = $59.99, the price on the shelf at the store was still $129.99, and no mention of any rebates, or sales or anything. It still rang up at the $109.99 price though, so everything was as it should be. I managed to get it up and running with only minimal interruption to this website (and others that are hosted on this server) and now I can connect to the internet with excellent signal strength at 108Mbps as opposed to the 11Mbps with poor to good signal strength. Plus, it’s more secure - no more WEP for me.

The sad thing is that I’m still waiting on a cable to extract the information from the old laptop’s hard drive, to get the profiles set up closer to how I like them, and bring all the old emails over (etc.)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “So, it was pretty okay, huh?” - Homer