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So my trusty laptop (Thinkpad T61) that I have been using for the past few years finally gave up the ghost on its battery. I knew the battery was failing cause it would charge less and less. I almost never use it off AC, so it is prob my own fault. Looking around online I found several people that had the flashing orange battery light. Some where saying that the T61 was known to have issues with the battery connector on the mainboard and that it may not be the battery. Having the laptop still under warranty (not the battery) I figured I better get one while I still have less than a year of warranty left.

Well I got the battery today and it is charging as I type this post up. Guess its not the mainboard connector. Other than the pain of having to get it warrantied, it would have been nice to get a new mainboard with less than a year to go.

Yesterday while at work I decided to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu release 9.10. The upgrade went pretty smooth and I have no complaints this far with it. I might actually do a clean install down the road to get the new filesystem and some other little features of it.

Erika’s laptop on the other hand is not taking the update well at all. Video is very slow and the touchpad decided to stop working. After messing around with it a little I have decided to just backup her home dir and do a clean install. If it still has issues once I test out the live cd for 9.10 I will just go back to 9.04 on her laptop for now. I am just glad she only has a 3gig home dir. :)

Upgraded my laptop to the latest version of Ubuntu (9.04). Everything seems to be running pretty nice and stable for me. Not any huge changes in my day to day usage of apps, but the new gnome does seem a little quicker.

Arrakis Screen Shot April 24th 2009