ubuntu laptop, part 2
This is a somewhat of a follow-up post to ubuntu laptop. It’s been a few days for me to play with it and I really like it. Somehow my son manages to make some software get hung up occasionally. Some of the games I can’t get to work, but there’s quite a handful the kids enjoy playing (my son in particular likes kolf).
I’ve yet to really spend some time with it, but have been looking at the laptop lately and been wanting to change it. Today when I let my son paint something else, I decided to just up and paint it myself after finding a particular favorite color of mine - blue - in acrylic paint (oh yeah - it’s metallic blue too). I considered doing a bunch of different colors for the kids, but decided to mostly just stick with the metallic blue except for a baby blue accent for the power button and the touchpad surrounding area… check it out.
I didn’t really go all out on the paint job - just a little bottle of the paint and a brush mostly. No tape used or anything… not that I was really that concerned with the laptop since I got it free anyway. I wonder how long the paint will last…
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Kamen said,
January 21, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I used to run my website on an Ubuntu box. I ran very well. I did get a little annoyed having to use “sudo” all of the time, but it ran well as a web server.
Quick side note… I would still be running Kamen Lee Dot Com from home, but can’t because Verizon blocks outgoing port 80, which means no web servers. Kinda stinks if you ask me, apparently they are still scared of some virus that exploited outgoing port 80 on home connections. 1 bad apple is all it takes I guess.
chosun1 said,
January 22, 2008 at 11:02 am
I’m running Ubuntu on an old IBM notebook. Under Windows XP, it ran very slowly. I was almost ready to trash the notebook when I decided to try Ubuntu. I’m glad I did. The notebook is very usable again. It’s been up for a couple of months and I’ve had only one app hang. I wish I’d done this a couple of years ago!
btw… My ISP (Cox) blocks port 80 as well, but they don’t block 443. I’m pretty sure Verizon doesn’t either. Give it a try…