October 27, 2007

October 27, 2007 Word07 Inspiron
It has been a busy day for personal technology. Yesterday afternoon I took the Dell Inspiron in to Connecting Point to have them put Windows XP on the system. I t was something I tried to do but was unable to, it kept going back to Fedora. I also asked them to install a wireless card on the computer but they called later in the evening and said that it already had a Dell wireless card installed. I wanted to pick up the new operating system for the mac (Leopard) but was told I could not pick it up until 6 O’Clock, Apple’s official roll out time. At 6:15 I went back to Connecting Point and got Mac OS X, version 10.6, an inexpensive USB firewire drive (250 GB) to use as a time machine with leopard, and an airport extreme wireless base station. My goal is to set up a wireless station that both macs and pc laptops can use to get on the internet.

I installed Leopard on MacBook HD with no difficulty. I could not install it on the external hard drive, BR150. I was hoping to put a large Windows partition on this drive with Boot Camp but it did not want to accept Leopard. I then SuperDupered the sytem on MacBook HD to BR150 but did not end up with system start up disk. I also transferred all my basic everyday documents to a 250 GB external hard drive, BT6. I want to attach this hard drive to the airport extreme network when I set it up tomorrow.