Well, my early night last night didn’t really turn out that way.\u00a0 I couldn’t sleep.\u00a0 So I went ahead and installed the new video card I got last night.\u00a0 Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Uncle Furry for carting me around town to get that card.<\/p>\n
AGP cards are a scarce breed these days.\u00a0 The card that died on me was an midrange-expensive one, and I paid over $200 for it.\u00a0 This one cost under $70 and has twice as much memory (512MB) but has a slower GPU.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n
I don’t run too many games on that PC, except the venerable 14 year old Civilization II.\u00a0 And a video card like my new one will handle that no problem.<\/p>\n
I managed to get a lot installed last night.\u00a0 I installed Xubuntu 10.04, got the Nvidia drivers and the system updates, got LXDE and many other applications installed and called it a night.\u00a0 Tonight, I’m in the middle of getting everything set up the way I like it.\u00a0 One of the best things about Linux is that this can be a very simple matter for some things.\u00a0 My email and messaging programs got back their previous lives simply by me doing some copy+paste into the new home folder from the old.<\/p>\n
But there’s more tweakage afoot.\u00a0 My setup is far from standard, and I have lots of stuff added and modified.\u00a0 Tomorrow will be a fun full day of getting everything back to the way I had it.<\/p>\n
But damn, this thing boots fast now.\u00a0 Win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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