Who was it thought the home computer was so smart?

Can't live with them.  Can't live without them.  Or is that women? Are you having a bad day?

Not a BAD day, just a FRUSTRATING one at that moment. 

It wound up at Guitar Center and me buying a new acoustic guitar amp, so it wasn't all bad.  But even that was frustrating because I took the kids along and they thought it was a toy store that they should be putting their hands on everything.  Um, no.  Hey honey, that guitar you're going towards costs two months' salary.  How about you just stuff your hands in your pocket, OK.   I found that I don't like the electronics in Breedloves and do like the electronics in Taylors much better. The guitar guy Jason was great.  Props to him.  The mic guys had better things to do than to talk to customers.  Three of them in the room and not one word to me in ten minutes.  Fuggedaboudit.  I'll buy from my local store.  The local store doesn't carry the line of amps that I wanted, and didn't have any with the features I wanted but they got first chance.  So they can sell me some mics and chords, and when it's time for a new guitar one of those too.  To heck with Guitar Center.  My eldest did dig going into the drum section, but that poor girl is having the hardest time getting rhythm.  She has NOT got the funk.  She can remember lyrics like nobody's business, and her school music teacher is making good progress with her on singing, but she has NOT got the funk.  Her mom wants her to learn piano first, so I'm going to play her some ragtime recordings by Claude Bolling I have to show her how the piano is a cool rhythm instrument.

Wow.  That was a ramble.

The computer problems were Vista and 7 trying to interface with an older print server with a Belkin proprietary operating system across a wireless network.  Sometimes the 7 computers would mount the printers via the server, and sometimes not.  The Vista computer never did.  The old XP computers were rock-solid reliable, so I'm guessing there's a compatibility issue between the Belkin client running on 7 and Vista.

My solution was to buy a printer with 7 and Vista drivers and built-in networking then to bump one of the former network printers to being a dedicated printer for the remaining XP computer.  I haven't gotten around to that last part yet, but it was a $120 fix for a whole lot of frustration. 

Oh, here's the amp I bought.  Floor model, pulled out yesterday, so I got a discount and it's still brand new condition, plus I got to take the very one I played which is nice.  http://www.guitarcenter.com/Acoustic-AG … 1425485.gc

Someone on Chordie has recommended it to me.  I don't recall who, so I'm sorry that I can't pass along a thanks but I do appreciate it. 

- Zurf

Thanks Damien.  Your explanation is not lost because I also have a couple hard drives hanging off the Belkin server.  Here's a better solution.  Why don't you come over and fix it, and then we jamm?  Bring your kids.  My kids are always eager to meet  new friends.   

- Zurf