Memories can be beautiful

I've been doing some memory-swapping of late.

Thanks to the wonders of eBay, I have acquired a 1GB SO-DIMM for my laptop, giving it a remarkable 1¼GB of total RAM. That's more than the next 2 best-endowed machines put together! It's noticeably quicker than it was with ½G & I have enough RAM to run VMware and an Ubuntu session alongside everything else. It strikes me as a silly amount of RAM to have - it's even more than the_major's Beast with its 1GB - but it was only £50.

I've sold the ¼G DIMM I took out to a client, whose laptop now has ½G - the max it will take - and it's quite a bit quicker, too.

I also acquired a couple of PC133 SO-DIMMs a little while ago, a 64M and a 128MB. I've downgraded my old Thinkpad from its illegal and problematic 320MB to its legal max of 192MB and sold its ¼G DIMM to chorleycakes for her laptop, which leaves me with the 64. Mine's now running Ubuntu (natch) with the ROX Desktop on. Any nostalgic Acorn Archimedes or RISC-PC or whatever users should check this out. It's a little rough around the edges still but it's very good.

Anybody want a 64MB laptop memory module? Should fit almost anything in the Pentium II-Pentium III era, laptops from a few hundred MHz up to a GHz or so. This includes Apple Powerbooks. Make me an offer. It's currently going for a quid on eBay.

Mitcham gets suave

In other news, I am expecting the imminent arrival of a guest from the sweltering North. Anders the suaveswede should, if all goes according to plan, be arriving tomorrow to stay up until the weekend. We hope to be attending the Great British Beer Festival, the Ton on Thursday and the Sproutlore event on Saturday. There's a Croydon outing to the GBBF planned for Wednesday evening but I think Friday is still free if you want to say hello to him!

And my thanks to technofairy & hubby for a splendid housewarming on Sunday afternoon down in sunny Brighton, which the_major and I attended thanks to a very kind lift from jamesb. Cheers, guys!