OneAndOneIs2

Sun, Dec 30, 2007

Sorry

This blog post is brought to you courtesy of an impulse buy. We went to a Best Buy store today and I made the fatal error of looking at the laptops. Because I needed a new laptop, you see...

Note past tense...

It's an Acer. It has a lovely screen, a superb built-in webcam, and two gigs of RAM. TWO GIGS... what the Hell do I do with that?!?

It also has a dual-core Intel CPU so I booted Knoppix just so I could see the two Tux emblems at the bootup for once :o)

The sad thing is, this means that this blog post is being written on Windows Vista.

I know, I know... I still hate it as an OS... but it's all I have available that can handle WiFi... and I'm still writing it using Firefox!

When I get home, I'll set it up to dual boot (If I have to pay the Windows Tax I'm damn well going to get some use out of it...) but until then... Vista it is.

Sigh.

Sorry

11 comments • Categories: Omni, Technology, My Life

Comments:

Comment from: Andrew [Visitor]

· http://www.andrewsteinhome.com

Don't get too comfortable with Vista, you might actually enjoy it. The only annoying thing is the built in unarchiver. Very, very slow. Might want to install 7-zip (in fact, it's a necessity). I wonder if SP1 will fix this? Then again, who cares, Ubuntu FTW

Permalink 30/12/07 @ 08:11

Comment from: Ray [Visitor]

· http://lostaddress.org

I feel very very dirty commenting on this post :)

Permalink 30/12/07 @ 10:27

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

Is it just me or do I find that getting Linux working on new laptops is a pain?

Oh and are you sure that the BIOS isn't one of those that only lets you boot Vista? If it is, you'd have to wait a few more years 'til LinuxBIOS gets working.

Permalink 30/12/07 @ 15:54

Comment from: ginny [Member]

· http://iamgenevieve.wordpress.com/

I still don't get why people think Windows is so terrible. It works fine for me.

*runs and hides from impending torrent of angry commenters)

Permalink 30/12/07 @ 17:33

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

XP isn't THAT bad... compared to Vista, anyway..

Fairly sure it's not Vista-only. If it is, I'll just have to ebay it...

Permalink 30/12/07 @ 18:12

Comment from: Citronella [Visitor]

· http://unsubstantialbubbles.blogspot.com

Well, that's at least your 2 Gigs of RAM put to good use - I'm not quite sure Vista would work too fine without that...

Permalink 31/12/07 @ 01:58

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

Yea.

I'm using XP on my laptop for gaming reasons still. Well my old computer is running debian. I don't want to dual boot because it is a pain, so I have two different computers with two different OSs.

Permalink 31/12/07 @ 03:07

Comment from: Andrew [Visitor]

· http://www.andrewsteinhome.com

I'm running a Vista Premium laptop with 1 GB RAM (894MB to be exact) and it runs fine...

Permalink 31/12/07 @ 05:09

Comment from: sokuban [Member]

You must be very patient.

Permalink 02/01/08 @ 17:56

Comment from: Victoria [Visitor]

· http://advicefromasinglegirl.blogspot.com/

I'll work on being okay with it. ;)

Permalink 03/01/08 @ 05:54

Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/

Andrew: I had a reply all typed up, but I clicked the wrong button when Vista asked me if I was sure I wanted to allow it, so it was lost forever.. ;o)

Citronella: I ran the betas on my desktop last year with a mere 512MB of RAM and an old MX440 graphics card. First time I've had a lag from Alt-Tab...

Sokuban: I'm actually almost a saint, I just need one or two more miracles ;o)

Victoria: You're very kind :o)

Permalink 03/01/08 @ 14:05