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By: Howto: Find an old computer « Motho ke motho ka botho

Howto: Find an old computer « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:45:26 +0000

[...] people have old machines stashed in attics or sheds, and they just never talk about it. Or maybe atop a garbage pile or in a box of leftover [...]

By: Howto: Switch to a console lifestyle « Motho ke motho ka botho

Howto: Switch to a console lifestyle « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:32:06 +0000

[...] when you can sell it all off for a few hundred bucks, pick up a leftover Celeron from a garbage pile, restore it, and use it in the same way, with the same software, and do far far more with far far [...]

By: One out, one in « Motho ke motho ka botho

One out, one in « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:29:22 +0000

[...] Leave a Comment All the stress, waiting, deliberation and expenditure surrounding the once-blinded, now substituted Thinkpad laptop I got for free a year ago has finally come to a culmination, and I [...]

By: The prodigal son returns « Motho ke motho ka botho

The prodigal son returns « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:37:03 +0000

[...] why I sat on a laptop with a busted screen for a year (not literally ) without doing anything about it is, in retrospect, kind of strange. It worked [...]

By: Role reversal « Motho ke motho ka botho

Role reversal « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:37:19 +0000

[...] have the Thinkpad configured as the server, and allow the Inspiron to run as client. I was running into an unforseen [...]

By: Case in point: An rtorrent slave setup « Motho ke motho ka botho

Case in point: An rtorrent slave setup « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:13:27 +0000

[...] of them in the near future, I decided it was time to take my own advice, and I’ve set up the battered Thinkpad as a torrent slave for my Inspiron. I first suggested this setup about a year ago, when I described [...]

By: New screen ordered « Motho ke motho ka botho

New screen ordered « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:10:05 +0000

[...] Linux , Hardware , Ubuntu It’s an oddball situation for me. I’m the owner of a battered Thinkpad — a machine that is fully functional (and serves as a three-way guinea pig for Arch, Ubuntu [...]

By: Adjusting rc.sysinit, adjusting udevadm « Motho ke motho ka botho

Adjusting rc.sysinit, adjusting udevadm « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:50:15 +0000

[...] Forums My Arch systems still feel considerably slower than comparable Crux systems. The battered Thinkpad, as an example, needs 25 seconds to reach an Arch desktop, while it boots quite easily to an [...]

By: A Thinkpad, a kernel panic, a workaround « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Thinkpad, a kernel panic, a workaround « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:42:20 +0000

[...] For some strange reason that I can’t seem to figure out, I get kernel panics on the battered Thinkpad with the latest Arch installation ISO. I won’t bother reproducing the error text here, mostly [...]

By: Two fresh systems « Motho ke motho ka botho

Two fresh systems « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:46:25 +0000

[...] stop was an Ubuntu system with the LXDE desktop overlaid on it. This was on the Thinkpad with the shattered screen — a 750Mhz Celeron with 128Mb of [...]