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Digsby on the old laptop
07.Jun.08 | 2 Comments
I have digsby up and running on my old Thinkpad 600E running Windows 2000. I wasn’t sure that it would actually run, but after one small adjustment it seems to be running just fine.
The adjustment? I needed to grab and install the GDI+ redistributable package.
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 [...]
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 [...]
My Xubuntu Laptop Has Sound!
21.Oct.06 | 1 Comment
Back in August, I wrote a post titled “The Quest for Noise” in which I described my trials and tribulations with getting the combination of my old Thinkpad 600E and Xubuntu to make noise without manually running a script after each reboot.
Warren dropped by earlier today and dropped a comment on that post with two [...]
