I’m breaking my rule for a while. I’ll be online this weekend because I was issued by good hearted people with a brand new laptop. It is a Compaq Presario CQ40. It doesn’t come with an OS cause in IT, we can do the job. If we need licenses, we have our own.

The problem is, its hard disk doesn’t go along with Win XP. The latter doesn’t have natively the device driver for it. With my officemate’s message and a few searches on the net, doing a slipstream is the only thing I could do (we could do) if I really want to have this thing working under Win XP.

However, that is not what I have in mind. I don’t plan on doing that slipstream every time I’d re-format this laptop (although I really don’t do that often).

Meanwhile, I’m trying to install different Linux distros and also Windows 7 RC. But we’ll see. I’m just tired already. Needing some sleep I suppose.

After a few weeks of using our dsl connection, we decided to purchase a wifi router so that everyone could use the internet at the same time. They had to pry me from the host pc before they could use it. hehe

So we ended up with CDR-King’s very own wifi router called Encore. I was quite hesitant about it cause I was afraid that it won’t last or won’t even be effective. Yet, last October 31, we bought one from them.

It may sound hilarious but I was excited to get home to configure it. And right after my workout with an office buddy, I faced traffic along EDSA, survived hunger and went straight to my task.

Yes, I called it the way I said I would and for a few minutes it was working. Until I applied Security Settings and Access Control for notebooks. *tadan* Request Timed Out. I re-configure everything after reset and still the same. Even the host computer didn’t have an internet connection at all but a client notebook had. That’s freakin’ weird alright.

Hours had passed me by and I was on the verge of giving up. I was so exhausted, my mind was so tired. But my ideas didn’t abandon me. I tried including the host computer’s mac address in Access Control thinking it might be the cause of all chaos. Guess what, I was right! Home LAN was working blissfully, woohoo!! And so far, I’m satisfied with it.

Additional Note: Just now, while searching for Encore’s Picture for this blog entry, I read that there are people who are having a hard time configuring it. I hope this blog post could help them out.

My dad bought his pen tablet from cdr king and he was excited to try it out. It was 1,500php and looked ok. He had it tested at the shop and worked perfectly fine.