Old laptops

I had an old laptop that was chugging under XP and I was half thinking of using it for a future desktop fab project. A friend suggested and supplied a Ubuntu installation CD, which installed without hassle (I don't really have any Linux experience). It detected my Wi-Fi network and connected remarkably easily too (better than Windows). I've not had chance to look at it any closer yet.

I've also taken another old laptop off the hands of a colleague, "free to a good home" and it's running XP fairly well. It came with working wireless and I'm thinking of maybe turning it into a large digital picture frame.

So many projects, so little time...

Too good to last

Oh well, my Xbox died again. This time it's terminal. On the bright side; new ones come with a HDMI port and the new slim Elite was just announced at E3, so prices may come down a bit (yeah right!). I don't need a HDD or Wi-Fi (can use existing) so I can get away with the Arcade/Core or whatever it's called now.

I've been working some more on my Sci-Fi UAV flying thing recently. If you're interested, there's a link in the side-bar.