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.

omnis,

you can't even export them to your computer and upload them?

I'm sure I could do that, but being shared with a dozen other people, I'd have to relink everything with everyone.

I have an iPhone now. So I'm now one of those people who have an iPhone.

YAY!

Yeah, I got tired of the crappy touch-screen in my old phone. Plus now I won't need to carry my phone and my iPod touch with me everywhere. I also have the personal hot spot so I can surf the internets on a laptop on the train.