Well it is Spring Break and I got bored with an old laptop, so I looked into some DIY projects and found some on instructables.com.  I then changed them a little bit so I didn’t have to buy anything.  What I used:

• Old 10″ x 12″ wooden frame
• Old Dell laptop (I forgot what model it was, latitude d610 I think)
• Leftover foam board
• Lots and lots of Hot Glue

I took everything apart, figured out how to fit the laptop screen in the frame with the foam board, then I took all of the unnecessary parts out, including the battery (will be powered by the power adapter) and the CD Drive.  I attached the foam board inside the frame as a make-shift matte, then the screen, which I glued in with hot glue, careful to avoid sensitive parts.  I then glued in the laptop parts (upside down at first, so I couldn’t hit the power button , but I fixed the mistake).  Then I plugged it in and it worked!!!

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We are upgrading our laptop to Windows 7, and I just upgraded my other laptop to Ubuntu 9.10. Maybe I will do a comparison of these two, unless I am too lazy…

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I, uh, broke my laptop somehow…  I had Ubuntu, installed Xfce on it (it’s really slow), and it broke.  So I reinstalled Ubuntu 7.04 from a CD I have, updated it to 7.10 and then to 8.04.  It’s still broken!  Gaaah!  I thought I had it fixed after another quick update, but then it wouldn’t finish an update!  Then Firefox and several other programs wouldn’t open at all.

So what did I do with it?  I through it on the ground and ran it over with my Hummer.  (Okay, I need that laptop, and I can’t afford a Hummer, and what a waste of gas anyway.)  I installed Fluxbuntu, and everything (mostly) works fast(er) and seamlessy!  We’ll see in the long run.

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