I gave up on the old computer, and have now bought a “new” old computer from David from my dorm. The specs on the new computer is roughly the same as that of the old one. The only really important changes is that I now have 1024 megs of memory and a Geforce4 Ti instead of the old Geforce 2 MX.

After having reinserted my old disks I found that I could no longer boot my Windows XP or Fedora Core 1 installation. Now reinstalling Windows XP on new hardware but unchanged product key is likely troublesome with activation codes and all I decided to cut right to the chase and install Ubuntu as the first thing.?Â?  At first I was thinking of waiting for Fedore Core 5 which are currently set to be released sometime next week, but I decided to stop waiting and try something new.

So far I really like this Ubuntu system, I have never felt a GNU/Linux system running Gnome to be more responsive, it is a massive improvement on this machine compared to Fedora Core 1, or maybe it is just the added 512 megs of RAM that does the trick?

While apt-get finished downloading the 170 megs of updates to the system I installed from the CD I am going to brush my teeth and go to bed with my newest book. The book is?Â?  Scattered Suns, the fourth book in the Saga of the Seven Suns series which just keeps getting better and better. I bought the book this friday and now I am afraid that I am almost done reading it. I’ll have to wait for at least a couple of months for next book in the series, Of Fire and Night,?Â? ?Â?  which is scheduled to be released July 2006, one should never start reading series still in writing! I even got my neighbours Mette and David hooked on the books too, although they are way to cheap to buy them on their own, they just keep pestering me with loan requests :)