Monday update

[mdlbear]

Some random updates. Nothing vital.

I don't appear to have mentioned what we got at Costco yesterday. The main thing was a SwissGear (Wenger) 24" rolling suitcase for the flower_cat Normally I'm the one who gets luggage, and the Cat just grumbles about it, but this was purple. Came with a nice little carry-on bag, as well.

The Dell Vostro 1000 laptop that I ordered for the Younger Daughter arrived this afternoon. I was shocked at the small amount of packaging -- the huge box was mostly empty. Apparently it uses cleverly-folded cardboard to keep the styrofoam inner box with the laptop in it from rattling around too much, but it was still altogether too loose for my taste. Well, it booted up this evening, so that's ok. Took me a while to figure out some of the stupid installation steps: after it gets through figuring out that it's connected to a wired ethernet network and bloody-well registering itself, it asks you to set up its internet connection and asks you for your ISP's phone number. At that point you have to back up three steps and tell it you don't want to set up a connection now. Idiots!

Got in a decent three-mile walk at lunchtime.

Comments

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Somehow it makes me feel better that the Dell installation instructions also confuse you. It's supposed to be boot up, plug & play, & the one time I tried it was anything but.

[mdlbear]

See about three posts upwhen from here.

[mdlbear]

And it's not Dell, it's Windows that's the problem (though I understand Dell still has trouble getting a Linux install right, too.)