Or, "How to waste a good sized chunk of both bandwidth, and a weekend."
As I mentioned in this thread, one of my own personal albatrosses has recently come back to haunt me. But as I also stated there, it is indeed an ill wind which blows no good, and this particular breeze blew in after I had recently finished salvaging a very few remaining useful parts from a Toshiba a friend's daughter had allowed her ex-boyfriend to throw down a flight of stair for her. As it turned out, the whole thing was wrecked beyond belief, with the single exception of the 160g HDD. Weird as it seems, the rest of the thing basically exploded in a cloud of shards and bits out from around the HDD, but beyond some pretty radical warpage of the thin metal carrier around it, the drive itself came away unaccountably intact.
So, this young lady obviously suffers from a streak of luck nothing like any I've ever had. Her data was amazingly intact and very simple to move to a new laptop. <..:eek:..> But on my advice -- and what I thought was only basic good sense -- I advised her never to trust the one out of the Toshiba. Being heaved down a flight of stairs isn't usually conductive to HDD or data longevity. She agreed. She didn't want the drive back. Just the data.
So you can see this one coming, right?
I Dban-ed the drive, parked it in the Fukushima, jacked in a loaded thumb drive, and in about as much time as it's taking me to write this post, had a freshly installed XFCE/F18 install staring back at me, with the cooling fan slowly spooling down from turbo-scream to a mere ear-splitting whine.
So far, so good.
Then I started adding software a bit at a time, and adding DE/WMs one at a time, and giving each a good solid fiddling with before moving on to the next one in line. I installed them in this order:
Cinnamon was last on the list, but I never got to it.
The results of all that are the rest of this post and thread, but for now, it's really tired out, and my eyes are not focusing well, so I'm off to bed. I'll add the rest of the story in the morning.
Until then ... Good night, all.
As I mentioned in this thread, one of my own personal albatrosses has recently come back to haunt me. But as I also stated there, it is indeed an ill wind which blows no good, and this particular breeze blew in after I had recently finished salvaging a very few remaining useful parts from a Toshiba a friend's daughter had allowed her ex-boyfriend to throw down a flight of stair for her. As it turned out, the whole thing was wrecked beyond belief, with the single exception of the 160g HDD. Weird as it seems, the rest of the thing basically exploded in a cloud of shards and bits out from around the HDD, but beyond some pretty radical warpage of the thin metal carrier around it, the drive itself came away unaccountably intact.
So, this young lady obviously suffers from a streak of luck nothing like any I've ever had. Her data was amazingly intact and very simple to move to a new laptop. <..:eek:..> But on my advice -- and what I thought was only basic good sense -- I advised her never to trust the one out of the Toshiba. Being heaved down a flight of stairs isn't usually conductive to HDD or data longevity. She agreed. She didn't want the drive back. Just the data.
So you can see this one coming, right?
I Dban-ed the drive, parked it in the Fukushima, jacked in a loaded thumb drive, and in about as much time as it's taking me to write this post, had a freshly installed XFCE/F18 install staring back at me, with the cooling fan slowly spooling down from turbo-scream to a mere ear-splitting whine.
So far, so good.
Then I started adding software a bit at a time, and adding DE/WMs one at a time, and giving each a good solid fiddling with before moving on to the next one in line. I installed them in this order:
- XFCE --
- e16 --
- LXDE --
- MATE --
- KDE --
- Gnome --
Cinnamon was last on the list, but I never got to it.
The results of all that are the rest of this post and thread, but for now, it's really tired out, and my eyes are not focusing well, so I'm off to bed. I'll add the rest of the story in the morning.
Until then ... Good night, all.