Hard Drives, Rain, FedEx
Never have anything shipped FedEx unless you happen to live within 50 feet of the paved road. To say nothing of the fact that you will have to wait five to six days for it.
Our local delivery guy is apparently paranoid that our driveway is only fit for snakes and crawdads.
Interesting that the UPS truck traverses it regularly, but anyway.
Thus, my new hard drive for the Ubuntu computer spent a day out in the drizzling rain.
Praise God for light rain and plastic packaging.
So, a few days after ordering from geeks.com, my new 2.5″ drive (cheapie, rebuilt, but wonderfully better than what I had) was in the Thinkpad and being partitioned for Ubuntu.
Installation went well, the rattly noise went away, and hopefully the balky startups (the drive often had to be removed and reinstalled for the operating system to be found) are done with.
Loving me some Ubuntu, even though video / DVD codecs are a pain the neck. My advice – with Ubuntu, use mplayer, not Totem. Installation of medibuntu is also required. It’s a bit of a process, and I’m a bit of a geek. I can’t imagine a casual computer user being able to do this, but it’s tons better than it was a few years ago when I tried Phat Linux and Red Hat and all that.
