Very excite! $45.88 for a replacement stock battery, and a “modular bay battery” to go in the place of the seldom used DVD drive. Hard drive might be next..
Author: Travis Newman
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My New Old Dell Latitude D620
Out of the kindness of his heart, my good buddy, Andrew, has donated a gently used Dell D620 laptop to my collection.
Not a super beast of a machine, but that’s not what I need it for. As you can see, I currently have CentOS 6.5 installed. I initially started with CentOS 7, but I couldn’t find wireless drivers anywhere for it, so I downgraded to 6.5 on a whim. As you can see in that first picture, wireless works… out of the box. Suspend works too! So if you had any questions regarding the maturity of CentOS 6.. Here’s your sign. As much as I might like the slickness of CentOS 7, functional hardware is more important.
Btw, output from LSPCI regarding the internal wireless:
Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)Also, I just can’t say no to GNOME 2. I’ve really missed it. Its simple, functional, responsive, customizable.. Not that GNOME 3 is bad, but there’s a certain quaintness to GNOME 2. This was the desktop environment that I used with Ubuntu when I first started using Linux, so there’s a bit of nostalgia, too.
No official Chromium (or Google Chrome) support at this point, but Firefox works well enough. Besides, other than the Google sign-in feature, I wasn’t really using any Chrome-specific features anyway (built-in Flash was nice though..)
So, new possibilities! With a mobile Linux rig, I can hop on my bike and Linux at the library, or the coffee shop, or wherever. Not to mention lugging the old Dell desktop that mom gave me to and from Andrew’s place was getting kind of old.
So that’s the good, the bad: needs a new battery, currently has a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive.
New batteries replacements aren’t so bad, ~$20. DVD-RW drives for less than that. What’s more intriguing, is that there’s another battery that I can buy that goes where the optical drive goes. With a fresh new replacement battery and a beefy internal battery to go with it.. plenty of juice for the road. The hard drive is a little on the small side.. Ultimate replacement would be an SSD.. and I’m sure it would make a huge difference in responsiveness.. But that’s pricey and can wait.
So if this sounds like something that might appeal to you, I highly recommend it! If you’re looking for a budget (sub-$200) Linux lappy, the Dell D620 is pretty good!
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The Truth About Beats by Dre!
which is why i own grados
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Fun With Aliases
I’m not sure if this is good form or not, but I’ve made some aliases to take me to some frequently used folders on my hard drive and my Dropbox. Additionally, an alias to the handy dandy Dropbox python script. Also added the human readable switch to ll.
[travnewmatic@localhost ~]$ alias
alias box=’python /home/travnewmatic/Dropbox/dropbox.py’
alias doc=’cd /home/travnewmatic/Documents/’
alias down=’cd /home/travnewmatic/Downloads/’
alias drop=’cd /home/travnewmatic/Dropbox/’
alias egrep=’egrep –color=auto’
alias fgrep=’fgrep –color=auto’
alias grep=’grep –color=auto’
alias home=’cd /home/travnewmatic/’
alias l.=’ls -d .* –color=auto’
alias linux=’cd /home/travnewmatic/Dropbox/Linux/’
alias ll=’ls -l –color=auto -h’
alias ls=’ls –color=auto’
alias vi=’vim’
alias which=’alias | /usr/bin/which –tty-only –read-alias –show-dot –show-tilde’Since I put all of 15 minutes into tricking out my .bashrc file with aliases, I figured it’d be a good idea to back it up to my Dropbox. But then I wondered, what if the .bashrc file in my home directory was instead a symlink to the backup in my Dropbox? That way, any change would automatically be backed up, and whats more, I can use that same .bashrc file on multiple machines, and I’d have all my aliases with me (like in my CentOS 6.5 virtual machine)!So thats what I did.I have my CentOS 7 installation on a physical hard drive, and a CentOS 6.5 installation in a virtual machine. Both have a user ‘travnewmatic’. Both travnewmatic home folders have .bashrc symlinks to the real .bashrc file in my Dropbox.The only issue I’ve anticipated is that an alias that works on one machine might not work on another machine. The majority of my aliases change to a particular folder, so if that folder didn’t exist or the path was different, then the alias would not work.So, lets update it a bit..[travnewmatic@localhost ~]$ cat .bashrc
# .bashrc
# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi
# Uncomment the following line if you don’t like systemctl’s auto-paging feature:
# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=
# User specific aliases and functions
alias doc=’cd ~/Documents/’
alias down=’cd ~/Downloads/’
alias drop=’cd ~/Dropbox/’
alias egrep=’egrep –color=auto’
alias fgrep=’fgrep –color=auto’
alias grep=’grep –color=auto’
alias home=’cd ~’
alias l.=’ls -d .* –color=auto’
alias linux=’cd ~/Dropbox/Linux/’
alias ll=’ls -l –color=auto -h’
alias ls=’ls –color=auto’
alias vi=’vim’
alias which=’alias | /usr/bin/which –tty-only –read-alias –show-dot –show-tilde’
alias box=’python ~/Dropbox/dropbox.py’
alias music=’cd ~/Music’Yes, as expected, relative path names do work. You can find my current .bashrc file in my Dropbox. -
travnewmatic.. SOLARIZED
My feeble attempts at coloring inside the lines
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SABnzbd+ for EL7
Handy!
Gotta do a little bit manually, but its working!