Laptops and Stuff
The laptop is once again re-done. I learned my lesson about resizing partitions on a computer that very much likes and needs its virtual memory. It’s running much better. I still get random DNS errors, but I think I was just spoiled to running a caching DNS server from home for so long.
On that subject, I am more and more convinced that running a consumer router with Tomato or some other alternative firmware is the best route to go for home network infrastructure. A caching DNS server on the LAN improves reliability so much as opposed to using the goofball ISP DNS servers. It also gives you the opportunity to slipstream local network names for fixed IPs so you can call your computers by name without using NetBIOS.
And on that subject, watching a Samba NetBIOS log is like reading a Senate transcript. The protocol provides for literally having elections between the computers to decide who will be the authority on the domain.
I can’t bring myself to replace the Sony right before Windows 7 comes out. I would rather ride the SP0 rollercoaster than purchase a license of Vista in mid-2009.