On ‘Vitaly’ and tech shix

/me blows dust off the journal

Wow, it’s sure been a while since I’ve posted here, or anywhere for that matter. How are you, ladies and gentlemen.
Not much art coming this way, ehwhat?

…anyway…

To explain the title:
Ayman just gave me his old laptop: [Soviet insignia on the hood included] an LG… something. To be honest, I didn’t bother to check. I’m cool with it, either way. It’s a laptop with 512MB of DDR RAM and pretty powerful CPU and GPUs.
It only made sense to christen it the Commietop 5000

…though as soon as I got to work with it, my plans to wirelessly control a range of computers across the world and make them do my bidding… ran headlong into a brick wall.
To put it simply, [there's no other way to put it. The poor thing's on life support as me and Ayman don't know what the hell's wrong with it] it craps out alot
Apparently I installed Ubuntu 8 successfully the other night, complete with ‘Your system is now installed. Please restart your computer’ prompt.

[NOTE: I'm not running my OS off an inbuilt hard-drive, but a 6GB Apple iPod via. USB]

I did so.
Whilst it was closing down to reboot, it suddenly shut off!
I turn it back on and it loads the Ubuntu menu prompt, as it does when you leave the disc in.
I take the disc out and restart:

<No operating system detected>

Okay. Could just be a malfunction.
I unplug the iPod from the USB, shut the laptop off and try it again.

<No operating system detected>

I shut the laptop off once more and leave it. It’s getting late and I’m tired. So I try the next night:

<Loading GRUB>
<GRUB loaded>
<Error 15>

…
So I try again. Same thing.
I try to install it on the iPod again after checking the install disc for defects
No defects on the install disc. What’s going on here?
It tells me the iPod has partitioned itself into two parts
I try to manual install to the iPod and it starts
After about an hour of patiently waiting for the laptop to stop burning a hole through my bedsheets:

<Installing system: 72%>
** system suddenly shuts off **

I have no idea if that much detail was needed for the solution to my problem to be found, but nevertheless.
It’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in computer hardware [laptops not included] and I really don’t want to fork over £9,000 to get it fixed.
For anyone willing to offer free advice, here’s a rundown:

• Laptop has no battery
• Runs off mains charger
• Laptop has no internal hard-disk
• Apple iPod 6GB substitutes hard-disk
• It dies randomly

So there we have it. A rundown of ‘Vitaly’, the newest machine in my aptly-named collection of computers.
One day I really must introduce it to ‘Hiro’ and ‘Case’.

Anyway, good day!
For those who still have summer left, enjoy it
For those who are coming to the Mother of All LAN Parties, I’ll see you at my place near enough 1900hrs tomorrow. You know who you are!

Oh, and thanks Ayman! 

/me grins

Keep on rocking you ridiculous bastard!

~Peace!

 

 

Oh, and yes. I did delete everything on my DeviantArt on a whim. Oh well