A few weeks ago I had a machine dropped for a new battery and to be reimaged. The battery was easy to replace, but, on restart it wouldn't boot. I took the battery out hoping that would do it, but, it still wouldn't boot. Looks like I will have to find the manual to see how I can force a BIOS reset and then do the reimage.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
My new toy.
After over twelve years my Palm m130 decided to go to that digital graveyard in the sky. The battery wouldn't hold a charge, the power button didn't work and the only way I could turn it on was to use a pin in the reset button. I decided to go with the Google Nexus 7 since my wife bought herself one just before Christmas and she just loves the machine.
I picked up the 16 gig version and I couldn't be happier. Most of the software I use is free and almost replaces the Palm m130 completely in functionality. The only thing I cannot find that is free (so far) is a contact manager. I want one that is very similar to what the palm has in that it records names, addresses emails and birthday/anniversary information in one spot.
The device itself runs a version of Linux and from what I see using it... It is great! I am now using it as my main machine to pick up Google mail, Facebook and Twitter. The thing just works and I have not had any issues with it locking up unlike a certain operating system I will leave unnamed. I also installed Avast as it is only a matter of time before the 'nasties' start making the presence known. I am using Avast as I have switched us all from AVG at home. I liked AVG until they made a major mess on this netbook and my main laptop that required me to completely rebuild both machines.
On another note PCLINUX finally put out a 64 bit version of their distribution and I am playing with it now. I wanted the 64 bit as it would recognize all of the memory in my main laptop unlike their 32 bit offering. Now all I have to do is figure out how to set up dual boot and use Windows 7 only for a few games and Linux for everything else. If anyone who has done this for windows 7 please leave me a note on where I can find a 'how-to-do' for this.
I picked up the 16 gig version and I couldn't be happier. Most of the software I use is free and almost replaces the Palm m130 completely in functionality. The only thing I cannot find that is free (so far) is a contact manager. I want one that is very similar to what the palm has in that it records names, addresses emails and birthday/anniversary information in one spot.
The device itself runs a version of Linux and from what I see using it... It is great! I am now using it as my main machine to pick up Google mail, Facebook and Twitter. The thing just works and I have not had any issues with it locking up unlike a certain operating system I will leave unnamed. I also installed Avast as it is only a matter of time before the 'nasties' start making the presence known. I am using Avast as I have switched us all from AVG at home. I liked AVG until they made a major mess on this netbook and my main laptop that required me to completely rebuild both machines.
On another note PCLINUX finally put out a 64 bit version of their distribution and I am playing with it now. I wanted the 64 bit as it would recognize all of the memory in my main laptop unlike their 32 bit offering. Now all I have to do is figure out how to set up dual boot and use Windows 7 only for a few games and Linux for everything else. If anyone who has done this for windows 7 please leave me a note on where I can find a 'how-to-do' for this.
Friday, June 08, 2012
More converts to Linux - Part 2
My sister-in-law dropped off her daughter's tower machine for a rebuild. The first thing they asked for is for me to wipe the drive and to install Linux on the machine. They don't even want a dual-boot machine, but, pure Linux! It seems that they are tired of the viruses/trojans on windows and the A/V software is really slowing down their machine. I know Linux isn't perfect, but, is a lot more secure by default and I will be turning on all of the various options to harden the machine as much as possible. I also will build normal user accounts that cannot add/change/delete programs from the system and then show them how to use the special account with root priviliges for when they have to update the system.
I will be re-imaging the machine to PCLINUX and installing Libre Office, Games and educational packages for her as they wanted a fully loaded machine to do office work, games and allow the kids to 'play' with some of the free educational packages that comes with the distro.
I will be re-imaging the machine to PCLINUX and installing Libre Office, Games and educational packages for her as they wanted a fully loaded machine to do office work, games and allow the kids to 'play' with some of the free educational packages that comes with the distro.
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