December 20th, 2008 by Kevin Smith

I’ve been looking at e-readers and have it down to the upcoming Foxit eSlick and Sony PRS505. I simply ruled out Amazon.com’s Kindle due to the potential vendor lock on my reading material. Really what I want is a portable PDF viewer, other formats would be nice but not required. If I can just connect the device to the computer, have it recognized as a USB mass storage device, then copy my PDFs over that would be just swell. The readers at iRex look good also but expensive.

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May 29th, 2007 by Kevin Smith

I updated the install howto for Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty). This release of Ubuntu should be the recommended install on the E1505. I’ve had no issues at all so far.

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December 2nd, 2006 by Kevin Smith

I updated the install howto for Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy). After the upgrade I experienced issues the “CPU soft lock” on boot, which prevented booting about 60% of the time. This is resolved by disabling the Intel Dual Core feature in the BIOS. Not sure how much the extra core helped my performance anyway. Otherwise, Edgy appears to work better on this laptop than Dapper did. On Dapper I found that the sound device failed about 25% of the time on boot and left me without sound; Edgy does not have this issue. The USplash issue is also resolved with Edgy. If you have the Intel Dual Core version of this laptop, disable it until the next release and it will work just fine.

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September 10th, 2006 by Kevin Smith

The Toshiba Satelite P25-S676 died on me; it’s video card may have over heated. So, I’ve replaced it with a Dell Inspiron E1505, which is working great with the latest release of Ubuntu. There is one major bug that shows up in the forums regarding Dell notebooks, so I addressed this by upgrading the BIOS. I have no idea if this will actually fix it. So far, I’ve had good luck. I’ve added an Installation Howto page.

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