Archive for June, 2006
Best Buy drops PDAs
The standalone PDA died for me a long time ago. It looks like the marketplace is starting to reflect that.
(Although I’m admittedly one of those weirdos that actually got rid of my blackberry on purpose. Push email is so a recipe for working too much. And I work far too much as it is.) [...]
New wireless access point
So I just realized that in order to add my newly purchased netgear firewalls to my network, I need to purchase a wi-fi access point to replace the current router/gateway wi-fi hub.
I’m going with this one from LinkSys even though the netgear equivalent is $10 cheaper after rebate.
$10 just isn’t worth the hassle of [...]
Finding SATA Drivers
I just bought an HP Pavilion a1440n through retail channels and went through the pain of loading an OS on it. (No, XP Home Media Edition didn’t cut it.)
My XP Pro volume license installer CD (from August 2002) couldn’t handle the SATA controller on the motherboard, an ASUS P5LP-LE. Asus doesn’t have a driver readily [...]
