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After installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my HP4325, I decided to try 9.10 on my DV9000 series laptop. I purchased a 320GB 7200 RPM Seagate hard drive and an external USB 2.0 enclosure, and copied the disk using Acronis 11. I had to do some manipulation to create partitions before the disk copy, and ended up […]
In the late 1990’s I swapped my headlight bulbs for Halogen bulbs. While this was an improvement, it wasn’t as good as it should have been, and I learned that the headlight switch wasn’t designed to handle that much current. I’m a computer engineer, so I really don’t have any excuse for putting off a […]
I still have a 6-1/2 year old HP4325us Athlon XP laptop that, like a Timex watch, just keeps on ticking. Just for grins, I replaced the 4200RPM 40GB hard drive with a 160GB 5400RPM PATA drive (PATA laptop drives are rapidly fading from existence), and installed Ubuntu 9.04. Normally I’m more of a Red Hat […]
