As I mentioned yesterday, I have been having problems with my wireless connection with my laptop, which is running Vista 64, and my FIOS connection (using a Verizon-provided Actiontec router).  Basically, I connected a Linksys wireless router to the Actiontec router, and I'm connecting to the Linksys. First problem is that Vista keeps trying to initially connect to the Actiontec.  This makes sense, as that was to what I was connecting all this time.  I think I might have f...

I think I might have solved the problems I'm having with my 64-bit Vista laptop and my wireless connection.  As I mentioned before, I tried an experiment: I hooked another router to the FIOS-provided Actiontec router.  It seemed to improve things, but I was still having problems. On Friday night, I tried something: I switched the security on the Actiontec router from WEP to WPA.  Since then, I have had no problem at all.  Still, I'm not going to celebrate just yet: le...

My ITunes library was corrupted, but I managed to recover most of it from some partial backups.  One of my pet peeves about ITunes: I don't see any way to re-download purchased items, aside from purchasing them again.  Am I missing something here?  It seems like an obvious feature.