Comments on: Buying a name

By: Arch Linux on a 150Mhz Pentium MMX « Motho ke motho ka botho

Arch Linux on a 150Mhz Pentium MMX « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:51:40 +0000

[...] was a little worried because the video card is Trident-based, and machines from that generation with Trident hardware have given me difficulty in the past. Fortunately though, this one seems to [...]

By: Dual booting Debian and KolibriOS « Motho ke motho ka botho

Dual booting Debian and KolibriOS « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:10:20 +0000

[...] a hard drive, I had a “dual-boot” system of both Debian and Kolibri running on the old Thinkpad 560e that’s still floating around the [...]

By: Debating a machine with few merits « Motho ke motho ka botho

Debating a machine with few merits « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:15:14 +0000

[...] regarding leftover parts is taking a sideways step these days, and making me reassess the less-than-a-month-old-to-me 560e I tinker with. I’m starting to feel like maybe this is one that’s worth releasing back [...]

By: More successful networking purchases « Motho ke motho ka botho

More successful networking purchases « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:28:32 +0000

[...] myself. And while I’m at it, there’s no need to keep the unworthy floppy drive for the 560e in the closet, when there are two or three spare IBM external floppy drives floating around in [...]

By: Lightning strikes twice « Motho ke motho ka botho

Lightning strikes twice « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:35:09 +0000

[...] keep this one brief. Yesterday I went back to the same secondhand shop where I bought the 560e, and bought two things blindly that turned out to be winners. I know it’s bad form, since not [...]

By: Sound at 120Mhz: The good, the bad … « Motho ke motho ka botho

Sound at 120Mhz: The good, the bad … « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:26:26 +0000

[...] had a feeling this would be the case, after getting music out of an unrelated but slightly newer 166Mhz Pentium. Sound on that machine was a bit scratchy, skipping and sputtering while the processor churned [...]

By: Still very cool: Debian floppy install « Motho ke motho ka botho

Still very cool: Debian floppy install « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:17:13 +0000

[...] only it would run on less memory, I would have it first in line for the 560e. Which is in a holding pattern right now, while I solve yet another hardware issue: How to either [...]

By: Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Ubuntu 9.10 at 120Mhz, 80Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:35:51 +0000

[...] Published 2010/01/16 Ubuntu Leave a Comment After tinkering with the Thinkpad 560e for a while and learning some of the eccentricities of it, I swapped the 64Mb memory stick out of [...]

By: A cascading effect « Motho ke motho ka botho

A cascading effect « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:02:41 +0000

[...] Thinkpad 560e has no CDROM either, which doesn’t intimidate me even if swapping hard drives on that machine [...]

By: Forcing dpkg through configuration errors « Motho ke motho ka botho

Forcing dpkg through configuration errors « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:34:15 +0000

[...] I have been struggling with disk errors for the past few days in Ubuntu, on the 560e that I brought home exactly a week ago. This is unusual for me, unusual for the drive and [...]