A little rainy and chilly. Just back from a long trip. Boy and I go to have some warm pho.…
Category Archives: General
Sleepy yet?
Driving through the countryside, waiting for sleep.…
Dell Inspiron 1420 and XP drivers
A number of people have asked me about installing Windows XP on their Dell Inspiron 1420 so I’ve set up a dedicated blog entry to direct things. The Dell Inspiron 1420 and Vostro 1400 share the same hardware. So if you’re looking for XP drivers, go to the XP drivers page I set up for …
Number one son
One year ago today, my son was born. Happiest day of my life.…
Number one
One of my other sites which was previously a number one result on Google remains in the top spot. However, I’d been working for a long time to get it ranked in the Google image results as well. For ages, we didn’t show up at all despite putting up somewhat gratuitous graphics. Well, it’s taken …
The New Year
We survived our Christmas travels. But not unscathed!…
That's not how I remember it
We swam in the river we played in the field we lived in the house of forgetfulness.
26 entries in 2007.…
Likeness
This boy reminds me of everyone I love.…
Dell Vostro 1400 and XP drivers
So my new notebook is a Dell Vostro 1400. This Dell Small Business laptop is basically a completely black Inspiron 1420 that comes without most of the bloatware. Specs are: Intel Core 2 Duo Santa Rosa CPU (T7300 2.0 Ghz), 14.1″ WXGA+ screen (1440×900), 120 Gb hard drive, and 2 Gb RAM. Also came with …
No time to upgrade?
I’ve been using the same motherboard for almost 2 years—last minor change was a new CPU in September 2006. Since that time, I have ditched Vista and gone back to an NLited version of XP dual-booting with Ubuntu 7.10. Only hardware change was an extra gig of memory: Asus A8N-VM CSM mobo, AMD Athlon 64 …