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December 25, 2001 on 9:29 pm | In Main |Today was one of the best Christmas’s I have had in a while. Sean had a good time while we opened the gifts. He wasn’t too interested in opening his presents, but he liked playing with them after they were opened, particularly his new toy vacuum cleaner. I received a lot of nice gifts, getting almost all of the items on my “wish” list. We had a very good Christmas dinner, prepared by Cortney and her mom Leslie. We finished the day watching a movie while we had a fire in the fireplace.
Probably the best thing of all today was that I had much better success with the new computer. Hooking up the hard drive to the old computer worked out fairly well. The old computer was temporarily messed up because its hard drive had multiple partitions. The slave (new) hard drive became drive d:, causing all of the programs installed in the higher drive letters to not work. But, I only needed to partition the new drive, and that was very quickly done by the installation software. Even though it worked, I’m annoyed by the fact that the Seagate software would not work in dos. I wasted quite a bit of time yesterday trying to make it work. After transferring the drive back to the new computer, I successfully installed the windows 98 software and updated all of the drivers. I hooked up the new computer to the internet using the new hardware router. This was so easy to do, so I went ahead and replaced the PNA network cards in the two old computers with new 10/100 NICs. I now have 3 computers networked together at 100mbs speed, and each computer is accessing the internet separately through the router. I can now copy all of the files of my old computer to the new computer, and rebuild the old computer, without affecting Cortney’s ability to use the internet. I have to say I am impressed by the hardware and software of the SMC router.
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