After 5 years or so my IBM T40 laptop gave up the ghost. Dead hardrive. Given how cheap laptops are today I’ll probably go to Costco and pick up an HP laptop. The old laptop ran Ubuntu 7.04. I’ll probably leave the new one running Vista. I personally like running Ubuntu but other people use [...]
Ubuntu
Ubuntu working fine
I’m running the beta of Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) with no problem at all. Everything is working fine and I’m keeping it on the T40.
Ubuntu and Steam
So far so good. I have tried the following with my Ubuntu installation: Tried to get Compiz running on my laptop Updated Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy to 7.04 Fiesty Fawn Get Steam working on my laptop running Ubuntu Compiz works badly. I think it’s the xserver I am using. I’ve un-installed it already; my laptop probably [...]
Ubuntu 6.10 on a IBM T40 laptop
Update: Well the keyconfig extension no longer works despite hacking the install.rdf in the file. I had to follow the instructions located at this website. On my Ubuntu laptop I did the following at a bash shell prompt: Did a search for “mainKeyset” and right after the line <keyset id=”mainKeyset”> I added the following two [...]
Laptop committed XP suicide
For about a week my IBM T40 laptop has been acting bizarre. It boots, complains about different problems, and none of the network connections work at all. Using the few tools I have for XP, I can’t get the thing to work. It’s gotten to the point where I have to dig out the IBM [...]
XPS 700 BIOS update
Version 1.1.6 of the Flash BIOS is out and can be downloaded here. This version supports 64 bit operating systems. The prior 1.1.3 release would not boot up an x64 Ubuntu live disk. Nice to have a 64 bit Core 2 Duo (what a lousy marketing name) and not be able to play with a [...]
Ubuntu upgrade to 6.06 Flight 7
On my workstation I had been running Ubuntu Linux 5.10. I primarily run Windows XP Pro because of that the environment that my games run in.
I had read that 6.06 beta was coming along very nicely s…
