Behold, the mini-notebook I have been lusting after lately after all the coverage at Engadget and BoingBoing Gadgets:
Running Ubuntu, with 1GB of RAM, and a webcam at around $400. There is only one thing to say: DO WANT.
Also tagged GeekeryMy old and aged Dell Latitude C800 has just finished some needed maintenance. For the most part, the laptop is being used by the proprietor of my local coffeehouse. I received a frantic email from her last week complaining that Ubuntu's updates had failed and she was unable to login to her machine.
I picked up [...]
As another week ends and a new one begins, I find that my weekend was absorbed with work. Again. Some unexpected outages and a planned outage wound up taking up most of my time yesterday. For some strange reason, the last two weeks have been full of too much work. Today was delightfully uncomplicated by [...]
Also tagged Amazon, Geekery, Weber Grill, WordPress, WorkI finally got around to replacing my home PC last week after much procrastinating on my part. I had hemmed and hawed about getting a new desktop, partly on account of money and on the need for one with my laptop. I finally decided to bite the bullet again since I missed having a desktop [...]
Also tagged Geekery, TechnicalWhen I purchased my Dell Latitude D820, I purchased an internal Dell TrueMobile 300 Bluetooth Module. I wanted to be able to make use of the Bluetooth technology to connect my cellphone.
My cellphone is a Motorola e815, and it has integrated Bluetooth. It is possible to make use of this to enable file synchronization and [...]
