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Another Option for the Old Machine
02.Sep.07 | 6 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 [...]
Follow-up on the Dead Computer
15.May.07 | Leave a Comment
After much swapping of parts, it is either the motherboard or CPU. Fortunately, I have a friend who is much more current than I. When he heard about my woes, he offered up an “old” PC of his for parts.
What’s it mean when his old PC is an upgrade for me? Think [...]
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 [...]
Another Windows vs. Linux Decision
08.Oct.06 | 9 Comments
Had to do some serious thinking this weekend. My in-laws are here for a few days (we’re a way-station between their summer and winter homes). Part of their stop here involves the twice-a-year checkup I do on their laptop. The laptop has been running Windows 98 for years. And, as of [...]
