I said I was going to be a bit more diligent, didn't I?
The trouble is, this real life stuff keeps intruding. And I haven't had a moment to breathe in ages. However, I may be up for a switch here soon. Don't know if that mythical "breathing room" will become available or not, but...
I did manage to make it in off the road this weekend, if only for a day or so. So, after unpacking and assaulting the washing machine, I dug into some tech stuff to relax for a bit. Won't get into it too much, but a quick overview...
Dug out my old Sony Vaio FJ (the mysterious "Russian" system; remind me to explain that sometime), and nuked a copy of MacPup off of it, replacing it with a fresh install of CrunchBang. Works fine, of course, save for the fact that #! just does not cotton to the ALPS touchpad on the system. Everything works fine, mind you, save for there being no tap nor scroll capability. Quickly grabbed/installed a copy of tpconfig, but that's a no-go. Oh well, I can deal with clicking a button. For now...
The second system I wanted to play with was a Lenovo IdeaPad U310 that came to me via a trade of some old junk. The IdeaPads are decent systems, from what I've seen. ThinkPads they are not, but they aren't bad. However, this one had an odd bit to it. Whoever had had it prior had installed a really thin copy of Windows 7 Home Edition on the 32 GB SSD. (!?!) When I looked in Windows Explorer, the 500 GB HD wasn't there. Oooo-kay... A bit deeper digging showed that there was something there, but Windows couldn't see it.
Well, I just don't do things the easy way. Being the jerk I am, I dragged out an old Puppy Raring thumb drive, and booted from that. And it didn't see anything. At first. But...well, you all know what it was: The freaking HD wasn't formatted. Basically, the system had nothing at that point save for basically a 32 GB drive. And that, with a Windows install, was getting mighty thin...
Feeling particularly jerkish, I just fired up gparted and quickly did a format of the drive. Not feeling particular industrious, I didn't reinstall Windows to the larger drive, and set the SSD up as cache. The thing works, and as long as it does, I don't care. No one else will be using it, so... Boots really fast, by the way...
Still trying to figure out what idiot lets a system out into the wild like that. It's making my head hurt...
Beyond that, did a real quick update to Kubuntu on the old ThinkPad T410s. Not really sure this install is going to stick around, but it'll do for now. I just haven't found anything that feels right on the T410s. I know that sounds weird, but...
It's getting late, and after many hours on the road, I think it's time for bed. This just might be enough tech for the night...
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