Sisyphus’ Progress
Sorry for the fake post. I received my new laptop (Dell Inspiron
600M) on Monday, and have been methodically pumping programs and data
onto it. One big drawback was that, somehow, my Radio backup only
had posts up through 5/27, and I’ve been battling the bewildering
restore function for about a day now. I finally mashed together
backup files from a couple of different sets that I have squirreled
away, and got my full complement of entries back. It was like
pushing mercury uphill with my nose.
Not out of the woods yet with the laptop. It came with a bunch of
Norton software that greatly interferes with networking and internet
access, and I’ve basically disabled it. Still, I wasn’t able to
get the internal network adapters (wireless and wired) to play at all
with my home network. Just to check things out, I disabled them
and installed a wifi pcmcia card from my old laptop, and - voila! -
instant networking and internet.
So, I may have a hardware issue with this new laptop. I hope I
don’t have to send it back. I bought one of those cool Dell
warranties where a guy comes to your house and repairs your computer on
the dining room table. I’ll have to work up the stamina and a
reservoir of goodwill and noblesse oblige before I call Dell support
and teach someone how to diagnose my problem.
