Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 7-3-2020: The Other Place

7th March, 2020

I’m officially a silly person … 

I’ve got a new laptop: a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad, running a version of Ubuntu Mate.

And was slowing transferring bookmarks and job sites over to it, manually.

I made a mistake in doing so, though: and needed to change my password.

Only to find that — somewhere along the line — I’d lost the sixteen digit PIN number needed to change my password.

In a word?

Bugger!

~≈†≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 6-3-2020: Ghana

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.

~≈¥≈~

The Birthday Present.

Right ...

You’ll possibly notice that -- for the first time in a while -- I’ve not opened this with a video intro.

The simple reason?

I’m using the cheap laptop I got for my birthday: a Lenovo ThinkPad T400, which doesn’t have have  webcam.

It does, however, have a newly installed version of Ubuntu Mate on it.

If I get the chance?

I'll try and write about it ...

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 5-3-2020: The Number 5

5th March, 2020.

Hmmm … 

I’m officially a year older: but officially not any less glum.

Still … ?

I have had a very nice lunch, yesterday: courtesy of my sister, Ruth.

And managed to get the refurbished laptop to her, in the process.

I’ve also had one of my birthday presents turn up: a cheap laptop I’m intent on using as a spare machine … after I’ve installed a version of Ubuntu on it.

It’ll be handy: I can job search in Brentwood library, with out my passwords leaving a machine I own.

Here’s hoping … 

~≈Ç≈~

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 4-3-2020: The Birthday …

4th March, 2020.

Right … 

It’s my birthday: he says, in his best Gollum voice.

And … ?

Frankly, I’ve a dentist appointment, today, my knee hurts … 

And, yesterday, I had the first of what’s going to be a long line of diabetes checks.

The diagnoses is near enough confirmed: all that’s needed now is a blood test to check my red blood cell’s fat absorption … and a urine test to check my kidney function … 

Hmm … 

~≈§≈~

JUST as a quick thought?

I’m on Facebook: as many of us are.

The fact it’s my birthday?   Means the site sets up a charitable giving page in your name.

Considering it’s had an impact on me — the condition killed my Grandma, and my favourite writer — I’ve chosen the Alzheimer’s Society as my chosen charity.

Feel free to put some cash in.

~≈§≈~