Monthly Archives: November 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 …