First Post

I never thought I'd write a blog but here I am. I just thought this would be a good way to at least keep track of my learning curve in Linux even if no one but me ever sees this.

I've been using Ubuntu for the past few months. I installed 8.10 off a disk that I got almost a year ago and used the amazing Internet here at Cal Poly to update to 9.04.

I have an out-of-box HP Pavilion a1130n that I've made very few modifications to. When I first got it I was in high school and had time for gaming so I bought a video card for it. I don't remember what the card is right now but I'll check when I have a chance and update this post. (Update: The video card is an ATI Radeon x1600 which is no longer supported by ATI as of Ubuntu 9.04.) When I upgraded the video card, I didn't know that I would need to upgrade the power supply and almost fried the motherboard but a friend of mine was able to find the cause of the BSODs that I was seeing and upgrade the power supply before and permanent damage was done. I've also added a 500GB harddrive to the empty bay. Just recently, I disconnected the power from the Lightscribe CD/DVD burner because it was constantly opening and closing without prompt. I think my brother damaged it when he tried to force it open while it was turned off.

I think that's quite enough for now.