Excel is driving me bonkers - I've got a cell with some text in it and it's displaying as ######## (Excel code for "ack, too much!") no matter how large I make that cell.

Any idea how I can force it to display the text? It's not really that much, which is the confusing part.

[edit - fixed this by the annoyingly cludgy method of copying the text into a blank cell and then pasting that cell on top of the old one. That should not have worked. Stupid Excel.]

Meara, I have an Apple Airport (big one, not the express one), which has one USB port on it. I have a powered USB hub plugged into it, with 2 hard drives and a printer plugged into the hub. My old iMac and my 2 year old PC laptop can access data on either drive (it's where my iTunes is), and print to the printer. No problems. Now, if only I could get the appleTV to stream from the hard drives without needing iTunes running on a computer, I'd be a happy camper. But that is beyond your questions ;)

The only routers with USB ports that will work with Time Machine are the Apple Airport Extreme models. The cost of one of those, plus a cheap hard drive is going to be much more expensive than a Seagate Black Armor NAS.

Hmm. I am very confused now. I think I will just have to wait to buy stuff until I get the new printer and see how/what it is. I'd hoped to do a bunch of re-organizing setup stuff this week while I'm home with no work, but it'll have to wait.

Especially since the printer will almost certainly be in a different room from the router (cable modem is in living room, office is up two flights of stairs)

meara, could you write to the new company and ask them about which printer it will be? I did that with one of my clients - asked them about which laptop so that I could buy the port replicator for my home set-up way ahead of time.

could you write to the new company and ask them about which printer it will be?

Well, I'm thinking of asking my ex-and-now-future coworker (who started there a few weeks ago) what he got. But that's not a guarantee I'll get the same thing...but I could ask during training and order from Amazon so it's at least waiting for me when I get home.

I hope someone has experienced this, and has a successful solution.

I set up a google account with work e-mail addy to have calendars and documents that are shared with the faculty and students.

Now, IT announces that my fine university has a relationship with google, so that we have our own portal/access/whatever. And to switch over to that access point. Which apparently puts it in a different domain.

So, I click the link to start the process of switching over. Only to discover my calendars and documents do not follow with the email. And my old login has a "myname%myjob@tempggoogleaccount.com" or some such.

So, logged into that crazy login, I try to change over my documents to new portal login, and Google says "can't do that, can only change within same domain". Um. They are both google!?! Uggg.

Is this making sense? I hope so. And hopefully someone knows how to fix it. Yes, I could contact my IT department. But they take MONTHS to answer basic questions, and are currently running around trying to figure out how someone is logging into faculty computers at night and playing World of Warcraft all night and eating TONS of bandwidth. I'm hoping my problem is something easy to solve.

Can you export the docs calendars from one acct to the other?

no, it says "different domains" and won't let me do it.

So...fancy schmancy new router. Linksys E3200. Trivial setup, and I'm not even sure it needs dd-wrt. I'll see if I feel the pain of no DNS.

Sadly, I realise the switch in my living room is just 10/100. I have no idea what all of my devices are, but the infrastructure should be as fast as possible. So I'm getting the eight port version of the switch Gud recommended.

And I just had a long-assed post about a weird Windows 7 connection issue, but I solved it by mistake so I can deleted the tl/dr;! Hurrah! Most stuff seems to be coming online just fine.