Gud, that makes sense, but if I add that price onto the price of a service agreement, it starts to push just past the point I am comfortable spending right now.

ita ! I would probably use it mostly as a reading tablet for cookbooks, magazines, or anything with pictures that I would rather look at on a color screen once I have my computer back. The rest of my downloaded books I'll still read on my e-ink kindle. ETA: And I would really prefer to buy from Staples.

In theory I could continue to use TCG's laptop for the next month or so because he doesn't bring it to work, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that and it is too large and heavy for me to comfortably use it outside the house.

I strongly recommend going the extra $50 for the Nexus 7 if you want to read on it. The 1280x800 screen on the Nexus will be much easier on the eyes than the 1024x768 of the Lenvo.

Nexus 7 also comes with JB 4.2 which has some real UI improvements for 7" tablets.

Finally, the Nexus is 2.5 oz lighter.

Maybe I'll go with the nexus and not get the service agreement. If I can replace it for the same price as the agreement what is the point?

I need some computer help. My computer won't update the Windows Service Pack and Security updates. There are 7 that aren't updating. I didn't realize this until recently.

I have Windows 7 64 bit and I'm not sure how to fix these error codes. I've tried searching online but I'm not finding help.

anyone have any suggestions?

Askye, don't know. Maybe you could post the error codes.

Also I have a question. It looks like Windows 8

1) Has a slightly lighter footprint than Windows 7

2) Will work without a touchscreen, but the interface is a pain without one - in practice you really should have touchscreen if you are going to use windows 8.

3) Will currently run in the desktop anything that runs on windows 7

4) Has poor integration between the desktop and the 'modern ui' apps.

Can someone explain OS X networking to me? When I look in Finder, Lucille (the NAS) has two shares--neither of which I can write to, despite having authenticated and one of them being my user's home directory.

If I Go to smb://Lucille/Oracle booyah! I can see all those folders, and I can write to them (I'm authenticated as the owner as well has explicitly granted full access). For a few minutes, though. The Lucille goes back to showing me read only Backup_BA and ita.

Is that AFP? Why would one protocol be muscling out the other? I also have CIFS and NFS enabled for the share and the media service--but let's not go into how random the files that show up under music are.

I mount it using the BlackArmour tool, and it works a little bit better for a little longer while I try and copy 100 files over, but it doesn't last--I end up with an 8058 error intermittently interrupting. Oh--and now it's listed under Shared by both Lucille and the IP address.

Does any of this confusion make sense to anyone?

Typo boy here are two of the error codes:

Error details: Code 80073701

Error details: Code 800736B3

What happens when you mount it as afp://Lucille/Oracle and nfs://Lucille/Oracle ? Can you just disable afp on the NAS?

Can you just disable afp on the NAS?

Even if there was that option (it's not in the web management tool), that would break the Time Capsule backups.

Oh, and all the settings are the same as the original NAS, which did and still does all of this perfectly--but afp is broken on it, therefore no backups, so that's why I have a replacement.

• afp://Lucille/Oracle -- server may not exist
• afp://192.168.1.122/Oracle -- share does not exist on this server
• afp://192.168.1.122 -- takes me into the BACKUP_BA where Time Capsule is saving backups, I can't access any other shares or directories
• nfs://Lucille/Oracle -- Problem connecting to the server "Lucille". The share does not exist on the server
• nfs://Lucille(/) -- Problem connecting to the server "Lucille". The share does not exist on the server
• nfs://192.168.1.122/Oracle -- There was a problem connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address
• nfs://192.168.1.122/ -- There was a problem connecting to the server. Check the server name or IP address

I can't work out why any of this should be different wired v. wireless, but that's my next test. The test after that will likely involve defenestration of one party or another, at this rate.

So it looks like my much loved dvr/dvd player/burner (from Omnis, thanks Omnis!) will pass through but no longer pick-up the Comcast video signal for broadcast. (I gave up cable.)

Am I right in thinking that one can't find the same in HD/blu ray in the US? I can live without the burner, but I'd like to record broadcast, even in SD.

Or, is there some sort of "component out" on my Smart TV that I'm not seeing (it seems to have out connections for audio only)?