My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
“Fan error”
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Tag Archives: Ubuntu
Ubuntu & I’m too smart for my own good
With the immediate arrangements for me “volunteering” for my employer, Flock, I booted up a “400$ special” PC, built myself 10 months ago. I have not used this PC much since starting with Merc, as they have met well all my “computing needs” 
At Merc I had 4 PCs (2 of them top of the line) and a not particular mobile, but true development box, Acer Laptop. This PC of mine was still running the previous version (warty) of the OS, Ubuntu, so I proceeded to update it with confidence as I would with any Debian-based distro.
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http://http:// & Microsoft.com
http://http:// is redirected to Microsoft. I have stumbled upon this once before, but did not have time to reflect on it.
Be like water
Things are moving fast . Not too fast though . Everything feels very fluid , and natural .
Today I purchased an inexpensive laptop , ACER Aspire 1692WLMi (1690) at 1499$ CND (incl gov.) to carry me through the transition .
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