This really isn't that difficult and you can do it on the cheap if wireless isn't critical to your small business. Just buy 1 wired router with a built in DHCP server, and 4 or 5 wireless ones. Unless you need them to be powered by PoE, I wouldn't bother with the Cisco Aironet APs, just buy some cheap Linksys/Cisco wireless routers. Once you have all that, setup your wired router to connect to your network and then configure the wireless routers in the following way:

1. Disable the WAN/Internet interface on each one, you won't need it.
2. Give each one a static IP inside your network on the LAN interface (for example: 192.168.1.200 - 192.168.1.205) with a gateway equal to the LAN IP of your wired router (for example: 192.168.1.1).
3. Set each wireless router to have the same SSID, encryption, password and channel (disable automatic channel selection).
4. Connect one of the LAN interfaces on each wireless router back to your network.

Because all your APs have the same SSID and password, the wireless clients should automatically connect to the one with the strongest signal strength. Your connection may temporarily drop if you are downloading a file and start walking across the office but for most people this solution should work. If you require monitoring, use a ping script or network monitoring tool to make sure all the APs are up. PRTG is actually free for less than 10 sensors so I'd recommend that if you don't already have one.

Damn right. I'm reading some of these stories on here and I can't believe how bad it is in some companies. Every year I get 20 vacation days, 5 flex days (to be used for vacation/dentist/sick/child sick days) days and 15 sick days (that can only be used when you are sick). I also live in Canada so going to the doctor when I get someone really bad doesn't cost me anything extra.

I'll take some of the union-induced laziness exhibited by some of my coworkers in exchange for the power of collective bargaining any day of the week.

...you could, or you could use your $10 crowbar to threaten a cleaning lady or bellhop and get a room card that will open any guest room in the hotel.

We've had these signs for a decade in BC. The problem is that some people actually speed up when the warning lights start flashing. Basically all it has done is give people a heads up that they need to start accelerating now if they want to make the light up ahead. The end result is people speeding through the intersection far faster than they would be if they had just run the amber light.

I don't know if it is geeky, but here are some turkey cooking tips from a geek.

Where I live the law specifically exempts on-duty policy officers from the talking on the cell phone while driving restriction. There is no language in there saying that the phone call has to be business related either. This caused a bit of an uproar when the law was introduced...but of course it went through anyway.

I don't even think Microsoft looks at the events they sponsor. I can't tell you how many tech events I've been to where Microsoft was listed as a "Gold" sponsor. The last few were small ones in a 100 person conference room and nobody from Microsoft was even there. They just paid the x number of dollars to get their name listed as a sponsor for the event. What is $20,000 to a company that charges $30,000 for a single-processor edition of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise?

Obligatory Penny Arcade comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/11

Ok, so what would happen if there were no default option. Before people could use the browser, a box would pop up on first run and ask the users if they wanted to be tracked or not. How many people do you think would choose to allow it? My guess would be a number near zero so I'm all for Microsoft streamlining this process and just turning it off by default. If you really want to be tracked just go ahead and turn it on.

Of course, I don't actually use IE myself, but I appreciate the effort on behalf of my parents, aunts, uncles, etc.