So I’m in a quandry.
I received a $50 Amazon gift card (Thanks Jim and Deb) but I have a list of things that I want.
- New laptop hard drive for my old Dell Inspirion 600m (old one died, and more later)
- A Nvidia 8600GT – I purchased Team Fortress 2 over Steam, but the crappy video card in my desktop (Quadro FX 560) has shitty shitty performance.
- 4-8 GB USB Thumb Drive – just cause bigger is better.
- Planet Earth HD-DVD – although I’m fairly convinced that Blu-Ray is going to come out on top and all money I dump into HD-DVDs is probably going to be wasted in a year.
So of this exact moment since I don’t like brining my work laptop down from the office (cause I will end up working), I cracked open the old Dell and made sure it was the HDD that was bad. Sure enough the 80GB drive that came with it nearly 3yrs ago was certainly dead. So I thought I would use a Ubuntu LiveCD to browse the internet, IM etc. Well that didn’t work real well, so I found a good article on installing Ubuntu to a USB Thumb Drive.
So now I’m running Ubuntu on a 1.6Ghz 768MB Dell with no HDD, and its all running off my 2GB Thumb Drive. Not a bad setup really. Now if I could only get my wireless to work. It probably will after I download some INF files.
Did I mention we made it back from Austin… I want to thank Justin and Robin again for putting up with us for nearly a week. We had a great time and I’m fairly certain Kelly has a metric pantload of pictures.
Just in case nobody has seen the most recent update of the Beasite Boys Sabotage check out this clip:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIlNKPFPTUU]
I will have to assume that link worked for now because installing Flash on Linux pretty much takes the slaughtering of a goat or two.
Once again we had a great time, hopefully we can visit again soon.
I’m really hoping that Kelly and I can get caught up on Heroes this weekend, we don’t have that much planned. Although I do believe that I’m playing some Frisbee Golf tomorrow morning sometime.
Almost forgot… since the holidays I have put on a little more weight then I would have liked (not to mention the 20+ pounds since we have been back in CO) I’m back on the Calorie-Count regime. Hopefully I can lose some of the weight by our trip to Europe in the Summer.
Ok its time for bed now, perhaps I can get my act together long enough tomorrow to upload the remaining videos that I have. I took one short one of Team Fortress 2 freaking out on me.