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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, May 14, 2004

Doing the data shuffle

Part of losing my job means I have to give back my lovely new Dell Latitude D600. I'm copying all my personal stuff off right now and will be wiping it and returning it later this afternoon. :sniff: As a consolation, and because my new persona as a semi-independent contractor really requires it, I've just ordered a Dell Inspiron 600mDell Inspiron 600m notebook. This is the consumer equivalent to the Latitude D600, identical in nearly every way. It should be here in a week or so and then I'll be mobile again. Until then I'll be tied to the Frankenbox at home.
For all that Dell refuses to upgrade their in-house BlackICE installation (oops, was that proprietary information? So what are you gonna do, fire me?), making extra work for the Desktop team any time there's a security emergency, they do make very nice machines. Jennifer loves her desktop and I couldn't be happier with the Latitude–hopefully the Inspiron will continue that tradition.

Edit: Just discovered this useful page which describes, in exhaustive detail, the steps and gotchas to installing various flavors of Linux on the 600m/D600.
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