Laptop updates
October 22, 2007 Here are some updates on whats going on with my laptop. I got my replacement 1 gig SODIMM from Kingston. I went and installed it and the laptop was hard locking after five to ten minutes, it was not blue screening like it was before. After tinkering with it, I took the 256mb SODIMM out of the laptop and left the 1 gig one in. The laptop has been running like a champ since then. I think there was an incompatibility with the IBM ram and the Kingston RAM. I have Kubuntu running on it now and I recently just upgraded to Gusty. Pretty much everything just worked out of the box. I got my HP Deskjet 5550 working just fine, I got my Ipod working with Amarok, and I have the ATI drivers installed with the restricted driver manager. Everything just works. Linux has come a long way since I started using it back in 2000. I remember having to compile a kernel module for my SB live card. Driving around town looking for a shop that carried hardware modem’s that were supported under linux. Then try to get my new hardware based modem to connect to my earthlink account. Manually configuring my video and monitor settings by hand so that it had the right resolution. I learned a lot back then on how things worked and I loved to tinker with it. But nowadays when I don’t have the time, it’s just nice to have a system up and running in faster then windows.
