It's been a long time...
...since my last post on this blog. Lot's happened in meantime: a few parties, LANwars, we've choosen the new boss of our university, I'm selected for an internship developing an L3 multicast switch at Barco. I was quite busy, so I didn't have much time to write some stuff here.
Some bad (or maybe even good) news: my computer is broken. The IDE-connector (or controller) on the mobo doesn't work anymore. It's a quite old Pentium 4 system, one of the first types of Pentium 4, with an Intel D850GB motherboard and 512 MB RD-Ram (Rambus, Rimm,...). So a change would be a new mobo and new Ram. Maybe my parents'll do that to use my computer at home. It was a very good system, running still very good. I'll miss it, and the good configured Gentoo where I had put lots of time in.
But with that sad news, there's also very good news! My parents decided to give me a new system! As mobility is getting more and more important, they bought me a notebook. Now I can use it here in Ghent, at home, and at all other places I'll hang around. For the interested ones: it's a Dell Latitude D810 bought at VTK. Here are some specs:
- Latitude D810, 15.4" WSXGA LCD (1680 X 1050) Screen
- Pentium M 730 (1.6Ghz, 533Mhz, 2MB L2 Cache)
- 1GB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM Memory (2X512MB)
- 80GB IDE (5400rpm) Hard Drive
- 8X DVD+RW Drive
- ATI X600 videocard with 128MB dedicated ram
- Networkcard and 56k modem
- Intel PRO Wireless 2200 802.11b/g mini PCI card
- Belgisch AZERTY keyboard
- 9 Cell 80WHr LI-ION Primary Battery
- Delux Nylon Carry Case
- System Documentation, Resource CD, adapter
- 3 year "Next Business Day On-site" warranty + Completecare Accidental damage Cover
- home delivery
Just take a look at the price at VTK and compare with the official prices from Dell ;-) It's a huge difference! I like the VTK services!
The Dell Latitude D810
While waiting for my own notebook, I can use another one. It's the Acer AMD64 I allready talked about. Installing vpnc for use at the student home was very simple. But I've added some other, I think bad, repo's and now the whole system is broken. So now, I'm running windows (that other would-be OS in dual boot on this machine). I think I'll study somewhat the next days, so I won't have time to install Gentoo or another Linux distro. I want WLAN working on this machine to use it at home, but there aren't any AMD64 drivers for the IPN2220 card inside. I'll wait, maybe they release them with the release of windows 64bit. My new computer will be, just like my old one, running Gentoo Linux in single boot.
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Omg, that's a great laptop. :-o Lucky you!
Oh I want that RIMM RAM... Got one of those early P4s here too as my desktop PC, and its almost impossible to get any RAMBUS RAM anymore (I only got 256Mb :()
Please let me know what you'll do with it ;)
I allready promissed 2x128 MB to someone else, so there's still 2x128 more. I'll suggest it to my parents, because it's their computer after I've got mine.
I also ordered a d810. I would be lucky if you posted your expirience in making it workining under Linux here. But now I'm still waiting for ist :-( .
cheers
Christoph
Yips, I made the decision to run Gentoo (and only Gentoo) on it. I'll post my experiences here.
I'm also still waiting to recieve that new computer, but as Dell says it's in production, it'll take about 2 or 3 days till I get it. DHL, I'll expect you boys :-)
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