Congratulations! A new computer trumps lamb chops any day.
on 12/12/08 1:16 AM, Christopher C Jones at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> It is hard to believe that this time last week I was worried about not
> having the cash to purchase fresh food for the weekend (expensive in my
> case also due to being strictly gluten intolerant) and yesterday I went
> out and brought a brand new Toshiba Satellite L300 notebook computer!
>
> It may be the very bottom of the line model and I do have some dollars
> left over especially after cash back but I have taken our Prime Minister
> in good faith that in return for spending my pension bonus, our pensions
> will be increased to cover basic cost of living expenses.
>
> It has a 64 bit Celeron chip, 1GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive... there is
> Windows Vista Premium, ah well, beggars can't be choosers, Fedora Linux
> 9 installs nicely on a test install if I use the 64 bit version. So it
> looks like all I need do is write a better partition table, re-install
> Fedora 9 and I can go mission critical and still be able to boot into
> Vista if I really need to.
>
> And a computer with a monitor that doesn't change colours and flicker on
> a whim like the CRT monitor on my old desktop computer. Amazing how much
> this has improved my health, BTW.
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