Geek-o-rama
Sep. 2nd, 2006 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisNext week I have two meetings in Redmond and an all day meeting downtown. I do not want to haul my laptop all over everywhere just so I can get email and look up shit. So... I dug out the old Fujitsu tiny notebook. It's got nearly no memory and is slow as Christmas but it's under 2 pounds and tiny.
I hadn't opened it in months. It needed a bazillion updates which it got and then I found a couple of things to speed it up. The onboard wireless is a dog and then I remembered I had a little USB wireless adapter that I got free with something so I plugged that in and BAM! The machine is still slow but the wireless speed went from 11Mbps to 54Mbps! That helps.
I can also use the Treo as a modem if I can't find a network. So it's a nice little purse email/browser machine.
It's defragging now. It's been forever since I have defragged a machine.
The Mariners won.
Nice day and now I think I'll do some knitting and tv watching... for a change...
This is the Lifebook next to my desktop computer at my old desk at Microsoft.
I hadn't opened it in months. It needed a bazillion updates which it got and then I found a couple of things to speed it up. The onboard wireless is a dog and then I remembered I had a little USB wireless adapter that I got free with something so I plugged that in and BAM! The machine is still slow but the wireless speed went from 11Mbps to 54Mbps! That helps.
I can also use the Treo as a modem if I can't find a network. So it's a nice little purse email/browser machine.
It's defragging now. It's been forever since I have defragged a machine.
The Mariners won.
Nice day and now I think I'll do some knitting and tv watching... for a change...
This is the Lifebook next to my desktop computer at my old desk at Microsoft.
