Comments on: The new guy

By: Reports from the home counties « Motho ke motho ka botho

Reports from the home counties « Motho ke motho ka botho — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:20:03 +0000

[...] started with 5.10 and hasn’t looked back. The same Inspiron 600m that ran Dapper was traded in for a preinstalled Dell dual-core machine, and that has been in [...]

By: Nothing to scoff at: Arch Linux, 300Mhz Celeron « Motho ke motho ka botho

Nothing to scoff at: Arch Linux, 300Mhz Celeron « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:58:16 +0000

[...] about all, really. This one is headed straight to the closet, to take over from that half-working Dell 600m I had a few months ago. I came to miss having that access point in the house, as well as a single [...]

By: Issues of perspective « Motho ke motho ka botho

Issues of perspective « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:53:59 +0000

[...] my house for the past four or five months — a measly 1.4Ghz Celeron M packed into a failing Dell Inspiron 600m — and shipped it off to an address in America. I was weary of the sketchy motherboard and [...]

By: Buying a name « Motho ke motho ka botho

Buying a name « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:01:18 +0000

[...] and that’s a bonus. I swapped out the noisy 2Gb drive for a spare 40Gb one, and used the 600m to install a couple of different things, including command-line Ubuntu systems (which is what you [...]

By: A console-only Ubuntu system « Motho ke motho ka botho

A console-only Ubuntu system « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:40:14 +0000

[...] “easier” than what I’m used to. For example, the Broadcom 43xx wireless in this 600m needs firmware to work — so I install the fwcutter, download wl_apsta.o manually, tear them [...]

By: Returning to Musca « Motho ke motho ka botho

Returning to Musca « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:37:40 +0000

[...] I’m afraid it’s true. I used IceWM for most of the month, and I even put Openbox on the 600m today, but what has drawn me back around is the desire (need?) to use more applications without [...]

By: Comparing torrent clients « Motho ke motho ka botho

Comparing torrent clients « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:32:21 +0000

[...] the name of science, I dumped every torrent I could find on the front page of LinuxTracker into the 600m, and let it spin up. That’s 86 torrents, probably more than 60Gb of disk space, and generally [...]

By: A new mini keyboard « Motho ke motho ka botho

A new mini keyboard « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:36:34 +0000

[...] context (or should I say reason? or rationale?) was the Inspiron 600m, which I have trundled out of the closet and set up on the desk next to the Thinkpad, while it [...]

By: Installing Crux 2.6 via ssh « Motho ke motho ka botho

Installing Crux 2.6 via ssh « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:25:13 +0000

[...] quiet for the past day or so because I’ve been trying to commandeer the aforementioned quirky Inspiron 600m, and use it as a compiling machine for the other Crux systems in my [...]

By: Keyboard failures « Motho ke motho ka botho

Keyboard failures « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:09:41 +0000

[...] Published 2009/11/02 Hardware Leave a Comment I had a strange feeling about that 600m, and now my concern has been validated: It’s back, and with crippling keyboard [...]