Hardware

Well I'm back in school, this can only mean one thing! That's right! I'm coding again! This time it's c++.

Anyways, I attempted to give life to a couple of old friends of mine. They are laptops. Ones that I obtained for free. Anyways, they both have about 300mhz processing speed with 128megs of ram. Pretty old. I thought I could install a nice linux distribution on them and that they would be useful to me once again. Alas, I cannot get the one I want to install. Pretty frustrating. I was able to get "Damn Small Linux" to install on one. But since it was meant to be run from a pen drive, it had crap for applications. So instead of manually going and installing all the apps I wanted and wasting a bunch of time I decided that I would install a flavor of my favorite distribution, Ubuntu. It's called Xubuntu and is meant to be run on older systems. I downloaded the alt cd (it doesn't boot as a live cd because that's how old these machines are) and burned it. I began to install it but it freezes half way. Oh well, I'll try again with the other laptop later.

Oh well. On a lighter note, I installed a C++ IDE on my pendrive so that I can develop applications on the go! Wasn't very difficult, but I felt clever in discovering a very easy way to do it. My teacher said that it would be difficult and a pain in the ass. A classmate tried it and said it was a pain in the ass. I tried it and thought it was a pain in the ass until my programmer's logic kicked in with a, "wait! it has to write out to a config file!". Long story short, I was able to simplify the pain in the ass process by simply opening the config file in a text editor and using the replace all command. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Only a slight pain.

My computer is still running great too! Although I had to reinstall my OS again a few weeks ago. Worth it to go back to GNOME.