Well, it is raining outside this evening as I write this post. It seems to rain very frequently since 2010 started. I remember going for a bike ride and the trail was very muddy and difficult to go fast. I had to spray my mountain bike off with water after the ride to clean it up. Above is a photo of a trail close to my apartment that I ride sometimes. Today I visited a bike shop and talked to the employees there while looking at the new bikes. The only riding I have done this week was at the apartment gym on there reclining exercise bike. That was after running a mile and lifting weights. I decided to purchase a new laptop this week after doing some web research and looking around. I got a gateway NV series laptop from RadioShack on sale. Today during the rain I played a few of the gateway games that came pre-loaded on the system. I played Bejeweled2 and some solitaire. The graphics were good but have not tried any games for Windows DVD releases yet. It is a budget laptop that has a 3.3 Windows Experience rating, but enough processor, core2 T4400 and 4 GB of RAM to handle most applications that I would run. I am in the process of learning my way around Windows 7 and it's many features. Here is a picture of the the gateway nv series: from the http://www.gateway.com website:
I took it to a local restaurant with free WiFi and it worked great, although there was a connection problem with the router at this place. I discovered that someone in this building has an unsecured WiFi network that I can surf the web from sitting at my desk. However, my cable internet service is much faster using an Ethernet connection. I still play some online games such as Trackmania, Crysis, and my Steam games. With four home computers I have a small network available to share files and programs. Paulsnetwork MS Workgroup contains a Windows 2000 Compaq Presario desktop, a Windows XP Home custom built desktop, a Vista 2007 custom built desktop, and my new gateway laptop. These machines are networked together using a TP-Link 4-port router with 4 Ethernet cables. What kind of home network do you have setup?
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