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RIP Asus eeepc 1001ha
I tore the ribbon that powers my macbook's keyboard backlight. Fortunately that resulted in battery savings.
I'm glad cars don't have ribbon cables or they'd die way sooner. Don't tell the auto makers.Posted 05-05-2024 at 02:06 PM by disk_bearing -
A Blast From The Past
Thoroughly screwed up 10.0 running xorgconfig, trying to get a decent display size larger than the 640x480 it was stuck at. So I deleted it.Posted 09-06-2021 at 07:58 AM by brianL -
A Blast From The Past
Got the Guest Additions installed in both of them, and managed to resize the display in 12.2 to a decent size, but can't do it in 10.0.Posted 09-05-2021 at 08:00 AM by brianL -
WTF is wrong with my X200?
I see, well then good luck!Posted 01-24-2021 at 05:31 AM by mark111 -
WTF is wrong with my X200?
Thanks for the reply. I haven't had the compact option set in lilo.conf. Anyway, so far it's behaving itself with current. Touch wood, fingers crossed, whatever else.Posted 01-20-2021 at 07:49 AM by brianL -
WTF is wrong with my X200?
Just a wild guess, but I remember having boot errors in Slackware with my X201, resulting in some random kernel stacktrace. Restarting sometimes made it boot. I first thought it was the RAM, but it turned out to be the "compact" option in lilo. Commenting out this line fixed the boot error for me.Posted 01-19-2021 at 11:14 AM by mark111
Updated 01-19-2021 at 11:28 AM by mark111 -
WTF is wrong with my X200?
Trying Slackware64-current on it again, see how it behaves this time. Fingers & everything else crossed. Nothing against Kubuntu, just prefer Slackware.Posted 01-11-2021 at 08:07 AM by brianL -
Dual-booting Again
I seem to have lost interest in trying other distros now, unlike when I first "discovered" Linux and indulged in frenzied distrohopping.Posted 07-01-2018 at 09:34 AM by brianL -
Dual-booting Again
I used Ubuntu for several years, because I bought a Dell that came with Ubuntu back when that was easy.
But Ubuntu lost me with Unity.
AFAIC, Mint is Ubuntu done right.Posted 06-29-2018 at 10:15 PM by frankbell -
Dual-booting Again
Four days - that's how long I stuck with Ubuntu. Installed it Tuesday, only mentioned it here yesterday, gone today. No problems with it, but no interest in it.Posted 06-23-2018 at 06:01 AM by brianL -
Back Again
Thanks.Posted 05-10-2018 at 01:04 PM by brianL -
Back Again
I noticed. Welcome back.Posted 05-10-2018 at 11:10 AM by GazL -
Hardware Addition
Updated the BIOS using FreeDOS on a USB stick. It was A03, it's now A15.Posted 11-07-2017 at 06:02 AM by brianL -
Hardware Addition
Decided the Quadro 2000 was inadequate and/or wrong type of card for general purpose use, so I've replaced it with a GTX 1050 Ti.Posted 11-02-2017 at 09:04 AM by brianL -
Hardware Addition
The Slackware installation problem has been solved - accidentally. The PERC H310 RAID controller was slowing boot-up to a snail-pace. I'm not using RAID, don't need it. So I took a chance and removed the controller. Mint still booted & ran OK. So I gave Slackware another try - and it installed, booted, and runs with no errors.Posted 10-10-2017 at 05:24 AM by brianL -
Hardware Addition
Kool Beans. My T3500's came from City Hall for free < they upgraded >
I like em. I slapped a 5 dollar Chinese card reader on the front panel with the small bay and slot for like a floppy drive. Plugged the wires into front usb pins on the mobo. Installed MX on one. AntiX on the other. They fly like the wind.Posted 09-29-2017 at 05:28 PM by rokytnji
Updated 09-29-2017 at 05:30 PM by rokytnji -
Hardware Addition
Didn't bother finding out the original price in £, but in 2012 that machine cost about $1800.Posted 09-29-2017 at 04:01 PM by brianL -
Posted 02-17-2015 at 04:13 AM by brianL -
Another New Toy to Play With
Dual-booting with Debian again. "Jessie", with KDE, this time. Seems OK. See how long it lasts.Posted 02-13-2015 at 06:29 AM by brianL -
Thinkpadophilia
Increased the RAM in the X200 to its "official" maximum: 4 GB.
There are "unofficial" maximums, but I reckon 4 is plenty for me.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Unoffi...m_memory_specsPosted 02-11-2015 at 06:29 AM by brianL