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Remember Infrared Ports?
11.Apr.08 | 1 Comment
Here’s a dialog that I haven’t seen in a few years:
Cool huh? That’s on my Thinkpad 600E which is running Windows 2000 these days. I had just sat my Windows Mobile phone down next to it. Turns out they both had active IR ports.
Technology almost 10 years between them and it worked! I was easily [...]
Custom Firefox Builds
03.Sep.07 | 2 Comments
With a nudge from a comment by Paul, I went searching for customized Firefox builds this afternoon. I wanted to see if I couldn’t speed up Firefox on my old Thinkpad 600e a bit.
It didn’t take too long before I found mmoy’s Windows Builds page — and there’s even a build for the old [...]
Another Option for the Old Machine
02.Sep.07 | 5 Comments
Long time readers here have seen more than one article about my quest to to breath life into an old Thinkpad 600E laptop that I have. It is a Pentium 2 with 288MB ram and a 6GB disk — and I think it still has a fair amount of life in it. I [...]
DSL to Zenwalk and back to Xubuntu
15.Mar.07 | 2 Comments
I had been running Damn Small Linux on my old Thinkpad for the last few months. It generally worked well, but I’ve had a few stumbling points with my somewhat goofy hard drive install of it. I never did manage to get sound going and I hadn’t really stumbled over a way to [...]
Another Run at Damn Small Linux
20.Jan.07 | Leave a Comment
Just yesterday morning I had an article up that mentioned my latest xubuntu laptop. And just like the one that had preceded it by a few days, this machine is also gone. Not to a family member this time. Oh no, this time I killed it.
I had sent the heatsink/fan assembly to [...]
