6th March, 2020.
It’s Friday, it’s five o’clock, it’s Crackerjack!
Quite why the phrase started banging around my head this morning — bar the fact it is Friday — I don’t know.
But there you go … !
At any rate … ?
My birthday was on Wednesday, just gone.
And? It seems Ebay are slightly better than Amazon at doing deliveries …
My birthday present, a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T400, got here when Ebay said it would.
~≈¥≈~
Either way … ?
The things now running a version of Ubuntu — Ubuntu Mate 18.04.4, if you’re asking — which was relatively easy to install.
Once I got things figured out.
First off … ? I burnt a copy of the live installer to a blank DVD: as I didn’t have much luck putting it onto a USB stick with balenaEtcher.
Once I’d done that, I managed to fiddle about with the BIOS setting on the laptop: so it would boot from the DVD.
The actual installation?
From the initial boot up to the finish, it took about half an hour to get the operating system installed, set up my user account, then add a couple of simple gamer, a media player, and some media codecs.
The fact a version of torrent client, Transmission, and that it can access various torrent site proxies?
Means it’s a pirates delight.
Not that I’m encouraging outright copyright theft.
That would be naughty.
~≈¥≈~
As a final thought … ?
As a final thought the thing doesn’t have a webcam: as I mentioned last night.
But it does have bluetooth.
Which could come in handy …
About my only concern at the moment?
Is whether I can hook it up to the library’s wifi network.
We’ll have to see.
~≈¥≈~
