… beginning installation. no problems so far yet. if there are any, i will report here. it’s late now ;)

update1
installation was easy. the only quirck was the options snd-hda-intel model=laptop quirck which is also described here

named after one group on flickr.

yeah; the 33pm record for just 50¢. this saves the day.

two pots; one in cool bulgarian design; the other one from a small manufacturer somewhere not too far away.

ok, iwe did this already 1 weeks ago, but for those wo need a mid priced linux capable working laptop, take a look on the sony vaio vgn11s/s (c2d 2ghz, 4gb, 320gb, ati something). they sold it in some mediamarkts (germany) for  699€ and i was quite impressed how easy it was to install ubuntu 8.10 (amd64) onto it.

• boot from installation cd,
• drag the partition bar as you want (we did windows: 60gb, linux: 220gb)
• click sometimes on next and that was it.
• on next boot it just asked us wether we want to install ATIs proprietary drivers (yes)
• installed ubuntu-restricted-extras (flash, some fonts, sun java) and execute /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh (css encrypted dvd support

that was it. sound, webcam, wifi, everything worked. maybe hibernation not, but we did not cared yet; as the laptop boots quite fast.

ok, now the third cam of 3 ordered during the last month arrived. let’s see which results this cheap sony cybershot w150 makes. batteries are loading… then two prakticas mtl5b for whose results you still have to wait a little bit; it’s too heavy to carry it everyday and in the moment there is quite a lot of work. besides, yesterday it was cold … trés fraude. (-18°)

at least flickr has some interesting made by this one (when you do camera-based search)

update:
i think it’s quite ok; for a cam of the price of a good lense:

(and this one was made with an exposure time of 1/4s; steady shot is cool, have it also on the big one)