I feel like I walked into the Mario Andretti Car Advice thread and asked how to make my car go.

ND, you ended up returning your Harmony 880 because of timing issues, didn't you? I had to increase the startup delay to 7s because the new TV is very slow warming up. I was wondering--did that option not exist when you had it, or did it not go as high as you needed?

The issue with my TV is that the warm up delay appears to be inconsistent. Also my TV always starts up in TV mode not the last used mode which means that the Harmony has to wait for the inconsistent warm up and then mode switch (which also seems to take an inconsistent interval). The end result was a less than 25% success rate on ending up in the right mode. That's what I get for buying an off brand TV.

That's a bit annoying. Still, if the TV's good...

I like about this one that you don't have to cycle through inputs in order to get to what you want. So, if for some reason I shut it down on an input that the remote doesn't know about, it still gets right to the correct one on startup.

Sorry, Dana - I plan to follow the instructions on this Apple website called "How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer" and if it doesn't work, then I'll be back here wailing and gnashing my teeth. I need a live-in geek.

yeah I miss my live in geek. Luckily I have a close-friend-geek who works for home cooking so I really shouldn't complain.

wow. I didn't realize how fast the wi-fi connection on the iphone was until I logged on last night @ ND's place. It proves how craptastic our new wi-fi routers are at work.

So, not being a network/IT guy, what are some settings I should look for that would slow down a wx connection? I guess a model # would help. Sorry, don't have that at home.

Sorry if this is too obvious, but does your work router have only the slower '802.11b' standard? That's the only thing I can think of. Or maybe there's interference or the work router has too many clients?

OK, I guess that's three things.

Have people seen this laptop? [link]

Their Eee PC also is a small, simple laptop which runs on the Linux operating system and is made to sell for just $300 to $400. Since it went on sale, last month in Taiwan, the Eee has been selling like hotcakes.

Asus has just announced their feature-rich, top-of-the line model, the Eee PC 4G, which is now available for sale here in the United States.

Eee stand for “easy to lean, easy to work and easy to play.” It’s a small, ultralight laptop with a 7-inch color screen, an Intel processor (the OLPC has an AMD chip) and a battery which provides up to 3 hours of use before needing recharging. Eee weighs less than two pounds.

There is no hard drive inside. The U.S. version comes with 4GB of built-in flash memory to both run the computer (as RAM) and provide approximately 1.4GB of storage space for files, music and pictures. There is also a memory card slot so you can add as much as 32GB of extra storage, which currently costs more than $400.

Connection to the Internet is via the Ethernet port or the built-in Wi-Fi circuitry. There’s a hole for a modem connection but no modem built inside.

Want.

Another Eee PC article.