This could get me in trouble, I would imagine; however, I didn’t see another option at the time. My office has two Compaq Evo N610c’s that are not being used. We had plans for them, but we kept getting IRQ errors, but Ubuntu would still run and work around the problems.
So, I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on one of these laptops, which I will call ‘Logan’. I set the time and date. Got Automatix installed and then the additional programs that I wanted. No worries, everything was running great! I was happy. Then I turned the laptop off and went home.
Wednesday, I turned it back on and finished updates. I noticed that the date changed back to January 1st, 1980 (?). Hmmm, okay, I reset it. Then on about my business. I moved some files to Logan, then Firefox and a few other things. At the end of the day, I packed Logan up for our trip, 6 days at our sister site.
No issues yesterday, I checked my eMail through the WebMail interface, surfed the web for information (work related), and my wife’s blog. Today, no problems this morning in my hotel room. I got to work and my iPod died. With limited plugs in the cubical, I decided that I can charge it from a USB port. Then to my surprise, Rhythmbox launches and reads my iPod! I can listed to music through it, SWEET!!!
I love it, my iPod is Mac formated and my desktop at works wants to format it every time I charge it; and Ubuntu says “an iPod, great want to listed to music through me?” Just another reason to run Linux. Maybe I can live w/out my 17″ (or 15″) MacBook Pro for a cheap WinBox with Ubuntu?
Oh the agony of technolust!
iron wil
