Picked up two AirLink Desktop Wireless cards. Going to setup them up and move my gateway box out into the garage. This is their Atheros SuperG card - they’re at home so I don’t have the model # on me.. I’ll update it when I get home - so it should work just as well as the PCMCIA card did. Same chipset and all.

Got them at Fry’s for 14.99 a piece. Not too bad for wireless and like I said, they seem to work great with linux. I was a little put off of AirLink at first because it’s not as big as NetGear or LinkSys - at least by appearences. But I’ve been pretty pleased so far. I almost bought the SuperG MIMO router for 20 bucks. But I realized I REALLY didn’t need to spend anymore money.

Speaking of spending money…

I’ve been trying to figure out which new computer I want and how I’m going to get it. Well, it occoured to me this weekend that I’d completely overlooked InfoTech. The computer I’m running now at home is from InfoTech and it’s still churning along even after all the reconfiguring and case swapping I’ve done. It certainly outlasted the 64bit Athlon I got at Fry’s.

My father-in-law took my recommendation to use them a year or two ago and he put together a system on their site. They were nice enough to call him and let him know that he didn’t need a few things he ordered like network card and sound card because they were integrated into the motherboard. I think that right there is a big point in their favor. Most companies would say “Hey.. the customer is right, right? More money for us.” But they called and verified what he wanted and saved him a nice chunk of change.

They build out your system, bench test it, and ship it within days of ordering. I got mine, plugged it in, and I was off and running in no time. Nice.

So I’m looking at getting a box off their site and it’ll be significantly cheaper than Dell - primarily because I can leave out things I have already like drives and monitors and keyboards - and I’ll get the parts that I want, not the cost cutting crappy parts that Dell - or any prebuilt computer company - uses to cut costs.

While I still like the iMac and OSX I think that XGL will give me the eye candy I wanted to play with and allow me to get a 3.2Ghz box for $600 rather than paying $1,000 - $2,000.

And with virtualization I can run OSX enough to get it out of my system… oops I didn’t say that.