Not too much happening. Mother in law was over yesterday. She is possibly the slowest Scrabble player on Earth. Went my sister’s new apartment today. Helped her build 2 Ikea pieces and get her cable Internet up and running. It’s a nice place, reminds me of some apartments I have had. Classic Chicago apartment. Hardwood floors, nine foot ceilings and a some charming features like built in cabinets. The zoned parking really helps. I hated living in a non zoned area. Nowhere to park.
In geek news, we are trying out Ubuntu Linux 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope?) netbook remix on the ideapad. It is really really fast on that hardware. I think all the software was recompiled for the Atom processor and all the hardware drivers are installed (like the webcam.) It goes from cold to fully loaded (NO DISK ACTIVITY) in 42 seconds. Windows XP is getting a little long in the tooth and not that fast or stable on the ideapad. It even imported all the documents, bookmarks and even the desktop image from Windows XP. Nice touch guys. I see why Microsoft is terrified of Netbooks. No profit and Linux runs circles around it on low end hardware and it forced them keep XP for years longer than they wanted.