I remember getting up at oh-dark-thirty and driving out of town a ways to get past the excessive light pollution here in Las Vegas, to see my first shuttle reentry.. Recently I read where it looks like the shuttle was starting to break up as it passed over Nevada.. I remember watching it and thinking to myself.. 'gee! that sure looks like sparks coming off of it..' and having never seen a reentry before, I assumed all was well.. Which lasted until I got home, and heard the news... God bless the Columbia astronauts...
Grrrr.. I'm green with envy.. I live in Las Vegas, NV and we only just a few months ago got -one- coffee house here with free wifi.. Of course, we've had most of the local Starbucks available with tmobile access for quite a while. The coffeehouse is right across the street from the University of Nevada/Las Vegas and at most times of the day, there's 3-4 people there with laptops..There's also a Starbucks/tmobile ap maybe 200 ft from the coffee house, and of course the tmobile ap comes blasting in, and of course winxp wants to grab the tmobile signal instead of the free ap.. Oh well..
Having supported Dells at work for the last six years, I felt pretty good about the h/w quality of Dells, so last May, when my old Duron750 finally rolled over and died, I decided to jump in and buy a Dell for home. I got a Dimension 4550, 2.53G/256mB/60Gb/GForce4 video for $500!.. Of course, it came with XPHome, which, after verifying the machine worked out of the box, I wiped and installed a clean copy of XPPro, and upgraded to 768Mb of RAM from Crucial. It's beem a sweet machine, dualboots both Mandrake9 and XP.. I believe buying "Home-Grade" Dells (Dimension/Inspirons) are a crapshoot.. If you get a good one (like I have --knock on wood--) you're golden, but God help you if you're a computer n00b and try calling Dell/India for their clueless "support"...
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I remember getting up at oh-dark-thirty and driving out of town a ways to get past the excessive light pollution here in Las Vegas, to see my first shuttle reentry.. Recently I read where it looks like the shuttle was starting to break up as it passed over Nevada.. I remember watching it and thinking to myself.. 'gee! that sure looks like sparks coming off of it..' and having never seen a reentry before, I assumed all was well.. Which lasted until I got home, and heard the news... God bless the Columbia astronauts...
Grrrr.. I'm green with envy.. I live in Las Vegas, NV and we only just a few months ago got -one- coffee house here with free wifi.. Of course, we've had most of the local Starbucks available with tmobile access for quite a while. The coffeehouse is right across the street from the University of Nevada/Las Vegas and at most times of the day, there's 3-4 people there with laptops..There's also a Starbucks/tmobile ap maybe 200 ft from the coffee house, and of course the tmobile ap comes blasting in, and of course winxp wants to grab the tmobile signal instead of the free ap.. Oh well..
Having supported Dells at work for the last six years, I felt pretty good about the h/w quality of .. Of course, it came with XPHome, which, after verifying the machine worked out of the box, I wiped and installed a clean copy of XPPro, and upgraded to 768Mb of RAM from Crucial. It's beem a sweet machine, dualboots both Mandrake9 and XP.. I believe buying "Home-Grade" Dells (Dimension/Inspirons) are a crapshoot.. If you get a good one (like I have --knock on wood--) you're golden, but God help you if you're a computer n00b and try calling Dell/India for their clueless "support"...
Dells, so last May, when my old Duron750 finally rolled over and died, I decided to jump in and buy
a Dell for home. I got a Dimension 4550, 2.53G/256mB/60Gb/GForce4 video for $500!
dave