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January 30, 2008
even hairier
I had a really old wireless router, we were close but it started drifting away. The signal flickered in and out, much like Hillary's "love" for Bill. And when I am running a show on NowLive's featured widget, unreliable equipment hurts everyone who is working hard to create great shows.
Since I am getting my new home office set up, I figured it was time to splurge on some new gear. For instance, when I have visitors, they often complain they can't print wirelessly. Which is amusing, I'm here all the time and I live without wireless printing. Sure, it sounds lovely and easy -- but plugging the printer's USB cord into the laptop just isn't THAT draining.
I understood there are some gizmos you can buy to make a printer wireless, but the top priority was getting a solid wireless router.
Some of you may recall, I crossed over to the dark side back in June.
It's even darker inside the Moxtopia compound right now, as I stumbled into the Airport Extreme.
I'm happy to shell out money if something will solve my problem, and work reliably. So you can imagine my shock and delight that this dirty hippie product would not only take care of my wireless router problem, but would allow me to print wirelessly, and connect my external hard drive....wirelessly. And those problems weren't even on the immediate to-do list, though I'm more than happy to kill three (endangered) birds with one stone.
The greasy hipster stink at the Apple store was avoided entirely by purchasing this at a small local shop where showering is compulsory. Same price for the Airport too.
It wasn't as easy to set up as I would have hoped, but I didn't have any real problems other than my own ignorance regarding tech terms and creating networks. Everything is working great, the innerneck is snappier, the sky is bluer, my boobs are bigger and leaving the dark side doesn't look likely in the near future.
As it pained me back in June -- it still pains me now to admit those dirty hippies at Apple make some sweet ass products. They have to be good at something, after all.
Posted by Moxie at January 30, 2008 3:51 PM
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it may be too late if you've already set up your airport extreme base station but from what i understand, apple's new "time capsule" thingy is an airport extreme base station and wireless backup hard drive all in one. . .
Posted by: bloopy at January 30, 2008 5:11 PM
Your boobs are bigger?!?!
Before and after pics please. ;)
Posted by: toddk at January 30, 2008 5:17 PM
Yeah I saw that Bloopy. It's out of my price range, even the 500 GB model. Besides I have an external hard drive that works perfectly fine and is also 500 GB and mostly empty!
Posted by: Moxie at January 30, 2008 6:28 PM
LOL Mox,Your boobs seem just fine to me...........Nino
Posted by: Nino at January 30, 2008 7:56 PM
that may be so, but is it color-coordinated with your laptop?. . .
Posted by: bloopy at January 30, 2008 9:13 PM
No, it's not. Damn you Bloopy!!!!
Now you are playing on my futile desire to be clutter free. I could lose one USB cord, and one power cord.
But my rule is, if I can't afford it, or the previous item still works, don't replace it. SIGH.
Posted by: Moxie at January 31, 2008 5:02 AM
Sorry to hear your boobs have gotten bigger, I thought they (and you) were just perfect :)
Posted by: Ed at January 31, 2008 9:50 AM
Steve says hippies give off a pleasing aroma when tased.
Posted by: mr toad at January 31, 2008 10:57 AM
