I saw that Micro Center had a 1GB PC3200 DDR-400 memory stick for $104.99, with $25 rebate available so I came into the store to get one. Well, I didn't find one on the shelf so I asked an associate. He took one look at the item on my printout shopping list and said that they are out of stock. Well, I went out ready to go home but it was pouring rain outside and it was cold so I walked back inside. I asked a different associate, Dale, to check if they carry any of the Diologic cards and he walked over to a terminal, checked and found that they had none. I then asked him to check on the memory stick because I didn't see any on the shelf. Surely he found they have a whole bunch of them in stock. He went to the back and came back shortly with one for me. Now that's great customer service. The other associate I first spoke to, was just a lazy dude and a manager should sit him down and give him a little talk about serving the customer better.

My desktop is running Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Nortel does not yet have a 64 bit VPN Client so I have had to use my laptop every time I want to connect to Nortel internal network. With the free VMware Server installed and Windows 2000 as the guest OS, I am able to connect using the 32 bit VPN Client. But with 1.5GB of memory, and giving the guest OS 1GB of memory, both the host and guest OS were running rather sluggish. With the new memory stick, my box has a total of 2.5GB of memory, both the host and guest OS are running satisfactorily. I am pretty happy. Let the memory prices go down a little more, I may just get two more 1GB sticks to bring total memory to 4GB, that way I can have both of my virtual machines, Windows 2000 and Solaris 10, up and running simultaneously with the host OS.