Leaving my baby
So, Motoko (my laptop) has been acting up.
Specifically, there are problems with her power supply. When she's turned off, she can only charge the battery a little bit; when she's turned on, she sometimes discharges the battery even when plugged in. (I wrote a bit of shell script to be sure--something like this:
(while true ; do grep 'current ( Read more... )
Specifically, there are problems with her power supply. When she's turned off, she can only charge the battery a little bit; when she's turned on, she sometimes discharges the battery even when plugged in. (I wrote a bit of shell script to be sure--something like this:
(while true ; do grep 'current ( Read more... )
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w00t. You damn lucky.
They said they might have to wipe the hard drive, but I hope they don't.
In order to assure that the machine is operating "correctly", you'll probably be the proud new owner of a pirated / volume licenced XP Home install.
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Nah, it'll be XP Pro-there's a sticker on the bottom and everything. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing; I'll just let the Dapper installer resize the Windows partition and I'll be able to dual-boot. (And if I ever get that copy of x86 OS X my sister's friend said he'd give me, it'll be triple-boot...)
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