A discussion tonight in the chatroom has sparked this blog post. My cellphone ownership history. Warts, Nokias and All. So please find detailed below all 10 cellphones over the last 10 years. This post is a wee detour from my 7 Year Telco Itch series 
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Linux Boot Issues
I have it booting off the HDD now, done it twice today from two restarts. I think the problem lies with the HDD I’m presently using. Will have to locate the 250gb IDE drive I bought home and give that a format and a run. All I really use the Windows XP machine for now is playing The Sims 2, well, The Sims 3 when its released next month (w00t) that said, I haven’t busted a gut to get a half way decent Windows XP machine to spend all my time on the Compaq.
That said, I also have the Acer Laptop as well, which has been very handy indeed with the quick burning of Linux ISO’s to disk.
However, theres one thing I can’t deny. All these 1am finishes are catching up with me, so I am exiting Geekdom for the weekend and having a nana nap. Back to work tomorrow after a long Christmas break.
From Freedom Came Elegance
So for my entire Christmas/New Years summer holiday, I have been immersing myself in most things geekdom. This blog being one of the many geeky things. I have learned a minuscule amount of information on VoIP, but will get 3Bit to explain to me in depth next time I visit.
Last night I couldn’t decide what I was going to do for my next attempt at geekdom. I had a black Compaq sitting around here, which was rescued from the bin at work. Redundant technology. Very, very redundant. So I installed a CD-RW in it – my trusty Sony one which I’ve had since 2002 and its never, ever let me down and pinched a HDD from slim.
After much frustration about not booting off a CD and how to make bootable CDs. I slept on the problem. At 5.46am it hit me. I hadn’t connected the IDE cable to the mobo. Simple but stooopid! So went to connect it and found a few bent pins on the mobo end of things. A pair of pliers soon fixed that. And I was away laughing.
I have installed Linux Mint on the Compaq. Its an Ubuntu based. Version 5. I just need to figure out now how to boot it up without my bootable CD. But at first impressions, I am very, very impressed with the whole system. I’ve always been a little scared of Linux since I first heard about it over 10 years ago and never really wanted to dip my toes in the water so to speak, but now that I have, I’m pleased.
I just need to figure out how to get it to boot up off the HDD instead of the CD now…. might not sleep on that problem, I might go shopping on it….