[CoLoCo] Death of a Desktop

[Dave Vanderploeg]

Last Saturday I went to plug an iPod into my desktop so I could add some
Christmas songs. There was a bit of a static pop and then the system
shutdown, unfortunately it never came back up. After some testing I
determined that the motherboard had died. It was an oldish system, but still
decent. It had 64bit processor, the MOBO was a socket 754, which are
apparently a little hard to come by now. Money is a little too tight in
December to rush out and pick up a new PC, so I decided to get out an older
system. My old system has an Athlon 2200, with a gig of ram and 128mb PCI
(not PCI-Express) video card. So I installed Ubuntu, enabled the Nvidia
driver and now I've got it running fairly fast WITH Compiz.

Imagine doing that with Vista, downgrading to system thats years old. Not
only were there no license problems, but I have the advanced graphics that
you need a cutting edge PC to use with Vista. Its not fast enough for most
games, but at least I have access to all of my files until I can buy a new
PC.

Dave
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