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Nothing special, this is just my third effort at writing a blog about my life and what goes on in it: Hobbies, cooking, work, maybe the occasional book or DVD review, and so forth. Nothing really noteworthy, but this is sort of a little subset of my world...

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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I got a new laptop way back in April. It originally had Windows Vista on it, but I decided that Vista sucked far worse than almost any operating system I’d used previously, and most of my hardware would not work with it. So I spent a while getting the beast downgraded to Windows XP, with no help whatsoever from Dell. While I was downgrading it, I divided the 300 GB hard drive into three partitions. I put 150 GB into a non-system data partition, 50 GB into the Windows XP partition, and I left 100 GB free with the idea that I would install Ubuntu Linux on it and create a dual-boot system. I downloaded what was then the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu, but I never burned the CD and did the installation. I really should get off my ass and just get it done. A project for the weekend, methinks…

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