Sep/077
Now Live From Durham
I am currently sitting in my room here in Durham waiting for Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 to install on my brand new Sony VAIO SZ650. It is an very nice ultra-portable with Santa Rosa and other fancy things (like an carbon-fiber casing!). The keyboard is a bit strange, so I reserve the right to make more typos than usual.
Anyways, the ubuntu installation cd doubles as a live cd - so I can actually sit online on the wireless network and blog while the system is installing in the background (beat that Microsoft!).
Now for some news for the non-geeks reading this site (I think that would pretty much only be members of my family, correct me if I'm wrong).
I arrived in Durham Wednesday evening after a rather long drive from Chatham, New Jersey. The traffic was heavy most of the way, but never completely congested. On the way I passed a few miles from the national mall in Washington D.C. and I was able to see (again) the Washington Monument and the Capitol from the highway, yay.
Wow, the installation has completed. Let me reboot and continue this post after that.
Okay, back. Anyways, I am staying in a town house in Durham that I share with two other Duke students, the house is really nice and my room is several times larger than the tiny thing I had in New Jersey.
I am more or less settled now, I will use next week to hopefully get a North Carolina drivers license and get my car titled here. I could write a lot of other stuff here, but I feel more like playing with my laptop now, see ya :)
September 9th, 2007
I bet they’re shaking now. I mean I install a new OS every day, and it keeps me from blogging. Oh wait, I have another computer. *Cough* well anyway, that new computer you bought looks really cool. How exactly does that hybrid graphics stuff work? I’ve never really seen that before.
September 9th, 2007
There’s a switch on the laptop. If you switch to the other graphics adapter, the system will use that one after the next reboot.
September 10th, 2007
Yeah I see the description says that, although it’s not quite clear what’s going on with the video RAM. Anyway it seems pretty clever. I do have a laptop myself now, and that one sure sucks up some serious power. I didn’t buy it for the long battery time though, so it’s ok :)
September 10th, 2007
What kind did you get? I was sick and tired of my big clunky Dell already, so I am extremely happy with the size of this thing (and it weighs less than 2kg with its carbon fiber casing)
September 10th, 2007
You are wrong! ;)
September 10th, 2007
I have a big clunky one (17 inch screen) with almost exactly the same specifications as yours. But again it’s all about what you’re going to use it for. Mine is easy enough to move, but you don’t really want to carry it everywhere. It suits me fine, but for many it would probably be too big. I actually use it at home too even though I have another computer there. Why? Because this one doesn’t sound like a jet engine :)
September 11th, 2007
Mette: Hehe, good to know. (Yes, that _was_ a test :) )