Moving to Buffalo

[ccb at acm.org]

> I usually by my computer parts on-line, but sometimes like to go into
> local shops.  Does anyone have suggestions on good local shops in the
> Buffalo Metro area?  I'm moving into a place in Amherst around Niagara
> Falls & Sheridan.  Right now I'm looking for about 150 feet of network
> cable to wire my new place.

Cool.  I grew up a couple of miles from there around Delaware and
Sheridan - a piece of heaven we call Kenmore ;-).

No tips on computer stores, moved east a long time ago.  Last I looked
there was a Mighty Taco at NFBlvd and Sheridan.  Go there soon.  The
Mighty is more important than the Buffalo Bills.  Continue east on
Sheridan to the intersection of Millersport for Duff's.  Don't bother
to order anything other than wings.  You'll go back again and again.

Have you considered 802.11b wireless ethernet?  My home rig is an SMC
Barricade base station, a wired (100mbps) Linux workstation, a
PowerBook (Firewire) with Airport card, my Sony VAIO (Linux) for work,
my wife's HP Omnibook (W2k) for work, my son's Win98 box and a crusty
old Nec Versa (Win98) that has my 8 years of quicken data.  Among my
son's box and the miscellaneous laptops we have 2 Lucent Orinocco
cards that pop in as needed.  There are also 2 spare ports on the base
station for dropping in a high-speed connection for things like
backups or bulk MP3 transfers before business trips.


ccb


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