In article <mJCdnfZC1ojBnqrb4p2dnA@giganews.com>,
Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:

> ANC wrote:
>
> >Problem is that the lappy has only one USB and I use it for a mouse
> >because the red mouse pointer thingy is hard to use for anyone with a
> >bit of arthritis in their fingers.
>
> http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/...usb_hub_review
>

This is pretty neat. Thanks. I'll look for it at Fry's next time I'm
there. I sometimes want to plug at pen-drive in and I have to remove the
mouse and use the red pointer thingy.



> >Also, I don't believe the BIOS of
> >this ancient beast will let you boot to USB.
>
> Does it have a floppy drive?

Well yes, but you it is external, it is heavy has hell, and I would not
travel with it.

For the hell of it I burned both Ubuntu and Xubuntu to try the LIVE CDs
(no install). Xubuntu booted to the graphical screen but the top and
bottom panel were missing. I tried a million different VGA settings and
finally gave up. Oh, and it was a 5 minute boot. Honestly. Five whole
minutes. Ubuntu worked well out of the box (with acpi=off boot code) but
it also took 4 or 5 minutes to boot. Seems to hang on trying to find the
non-existant floppy... and it eventually gives up. I was impressed with
Ubuntu once I turned off the brown and made it KDE-blue. I still like
KDE better.

This weekend I'll burn Slack and go through the install. I have Slack on
another ThinkPad so I'm not expecting any problems. I've not found a
wireless card for it... but they are out there for about $40.

Al