Archive for January, 2010

Nothing I would rather be….

Friday, January 29th, 2010

There’s nothing I would rather be
Than to be an Aborigine
and watch you take my precious land away.
For nothing gives me greater joy
than to watch you fill each girl and boy
with superficial existential shit.
Now you may think I’m cheeky
But I’d be satisfied
to rebuild your convict ships
and sail them on the tide.
I love the way you give me God
and of course the mining board,
for this of course I thank the Lord each day.
I’m glad you say that land rights wrong.
Then you should go where you belong
and leave me to just keep on keeping on.

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Linux Mint Helena (ubuntu 9.10)

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I just picked up a Lenovo R61i laptop and immediately removed any trace of windows on the system and installed the latest version of Linux Mint, code named Helena. It is based on the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
Everything worked straight away except for the internal microphone which I only discovered today while trying to set-up Skype. I searched a lot of forums and googled the web for a while before I came across this web page:
https://launchpad.net/~c4pp4/+archive/lenovo-r61i
The dude here has compiled an updated kernel and a few other fixes. You have to enable some different repositories in your apt sources list but after installing the updates and rebooting, my internal mic works now…..

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