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Fall back! (one hour)
An extra hour of Not Doing Much of Anything is good. The booster is still making me tired and achy but all in all I'm okay.
The Haiku install on my lappy went surprisingly well... but it can't see the Internet. I tried it on a Pentium 4 desktop and it was crash city. Maybe the next beta will work better. Still... an interesting looking OS.
Last night I booted up my capture computer and discovered the CMOS battery had died. That's fair enough - the Dell Opiplex dates back to 2005. After replacing the button battery I discovered the disk drive was hosed. Well... refurbished HD... you expect trouble. So I swapped in another hard drive that I had installed Linux Mint on... ah... awhile ago?
So it wanted to do updates. No problem. Then it wanted to do an upgrade! Yeah, sure. And more updates! Since it has a standard SATA drive and not a zippy SSD all this took longer than I expected. Reinstall the NVidia drivers... and it wants to do another upgrade!
Yeah, not now.
I have to admit... the Optiplex 745 has done yeoman duties for me. After upgrading the BIOS I was able to install a Core 2 Duo and 8 gigs of memory. I also discovered that you can install a Q6600 processor giving you 4 cores... but it's not on the recommended list. It's not a high end gaming rig by any means but hey, it still works, works fairly well and has not been sent to the dump.
-m
The Haiku install on my lappy went surprisingly well... but it can't see the Internet. I tried it on a Pentium 4 desktop and it was crash city. Maybe the next beta will work better. Still... an interesting looking OS.
Last night I booted up my capture computer and discovered the CMOS battery had died. That's fair enough - the Dell Opiplex dates back to 2005. After replacing the button battery I discovered the disk drive was hosed. Well... refurbished HD... you expect trouble. So I swapped in another hard drive that I had installed Linux Mint on... ah... awhile ago?
So it wanted to do updates. No problem. Then it wanted to do an upgrade! Yeah, sure. And more updates! Since it has a standard SATA drive and not a zippy SSD all this took longer than I expected. Reinstall the NVidia drivers... and it wants to do another upgrade!
Yeah, not now.
I have to admit... the Optiplex 745 has done yeoman duties for me. After upgrading the BIOS I was able to install a Core 2 Duo and 8 gigs of memory. I also discovered that you can install a Q6600 processor giving you 4 cores... but it's not on the recommended list. It's not a high end gaming rig by any means but hey, it still works, works fairly well and has not been sent to the dump.
-m