Granted it's a few years old, the laptop I'm using now, a Dell Latitude D410 has IR. I think I've seen them more often on the Latitude series. That said, there's a ton of current laptop's I've seen with IR...certainly not restricted to machines 13 years old or older...in fact, what are those...486's?

I've switched over to the new Antivirus 360....

One of my users has the mouse on the left, and the mouse buttons swapped...using her account and then switching to admin really throws you for a loop because the mouse buttons change back. Remoting into her PC is the same story. The real oddball though is a girl that I went to high school with holds her mouse upside down...so up is down, left is right, and the right mouse button is actually the left...I can't grasp that one in my mind....

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that in an analog signal, the entire picture is refreshed, whereas digital just refreshes the parts of the picture that is changing. If that's the case, wouldn't you use about the same amount of bandwidth regardless of what's on the screen?

Sounds like WLI*ReservationRewards. I know they have a new company name now...same scam. I saw their stuff on the back end of a purchase from buy.com the other day. Blogged about it a couple years ago, and had literally hundreds of people state the same thing happened to them. And you literally have to ready very carefully and select the right option to get your order confirmation without "joining" their scam.

My Dell rep actually called the XP downgrade from Vista an "upgrade" the other day in an email...

I hate wireless. You have to mess with multiple batteries, a higher likelihood of false alarms due to loss of contact, dead batteries, interference, etc. Wired is by far the most reliable way to go, but for DIY folks, wireless is convenient to install. Don't forget you have to find a company to do the monitoring as well...there's lots of third party companies to do monitoring so you don't have to sign a contact or buy a system from one of the big vendors (ADT, Brinks, etc) and most existing systems can be reprogrammed for those 3rd party monitoring companies (from my experience, Brinks systems are difficult to reprogram).