Laptop

I have no idea what the laptop specs are that I'm using. It is ancient. After installing Xubuntu and open office I have just under a gig of free space on the drive. It has 200 meg and change memory, 200 GHz processor. I have no idea what else. Oh, one USB 1.0 port where I' will have to put my character and other data files while using the laptop. Things are coming together. I'll be prepared for next Friday.

Last night a screen popped up that said new updates were  available. It turns out Ubuntu 8.04 is out. The system updated itself. I left it running and went to bed. When I got up, the download and install was done. The clean up was running. The system wanted to remove something. I clicked 'continue', rebooted. The laptop did not come up the first boot. It came up the second. It still seems to be working. The sound still does not work. The drive has no free space. Can't view YouTube videos. No online radio. No storing data on the drive. No wireless. Oh, well. Still better than nothing.

I will not have the books on the computer. The laptop is not really strong enough to put adobe reader. I'll have to have some other pdf viewer. One of the ones that suck. That will at least get me down the road. Now, I just have to find my books and dice.

Dream Laptop of the day

nspiron 1420N Starting Price $1,044 Instant Savings $20 Subtotal $1,024 As low as $31/month Apply | Learn More   Discount Details Preliminary Ship Date: 5/5/20081 Inspiron 1420N Date   4/26/2008 6:19:04 PM Central Standard Time Catalog Number   29 Retail 19 Catalog Number / Description   Product Code   SKU   Id System Color: Jet Black   BLKWC   [320-5524]   2 Inspiron 1420N: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5450 (1.66GHz/667Mhz FSB/2MB cache)   LT545LN   [223-1342]   1 Operation System: Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 with DVD Playback   LINX   [420-7901]   11 LCD Panel: High Resolution, glossy widescreen 14.1 inch display (1440x900)   14XGAL   [320-5521]   5 Video Card: 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce® Go 8400M GS   128NV84   [320-5496]   6 Memory: 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 667MHz   4G2D   [311-7256]   3 Hard Drive: Size: 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)   160GB   [341-4865]   8 Optical Drive: 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability   8XLDVDR   [313-5277]   16 Wireless Networking Cards: Intel® 3945 802.11a/g Mini-card   IP3945   [430-2334]   19 Camera: Integrated 2.0 Megapixel Webcam   CAMERA   [320-5522]   21 Primary Battery: 56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)   6BAT   [312-0539]   27 Sound Card: Integrated High Definition Audio   IS   [313-4783]   17 Integrated NIC and Modem: Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem   INTNIC   [430-0493]   13 Processor Branding: Intel Centrino Core Duo Processor   ICNSNB   [310-9348]   749 Warranty & Service: 1Yr Ltd Warranty and Mail-In Service   ST111RR   [960-2780][983-3180][987-5397][987-8139][990-7989]   29 Dell Recycling: Free Recycling Kit   RECYCL   [310-5408]   129