Well, the Xubuntu experiment has been cut short. As have any other projects I was working on. My laptop finally decided to give up the ghost yesterday morning. While reading an article on Slashdot the screen went white for about 20 seconds, then random color pixels, then it shut down entirely and now “no post no beep.” (Not that it ever beeped to begin with.) I first thought it might be the LCD screen and tried booting with an external monitor, no luck. I tried all the classic “my laptop won’t boot tricks,” but nothing. My guess is that it is mo-bo related. I’m going to have it looked over to see if it is going to be worth the trouble to repair it, or whether it’s just time to bite the bullet and get a new rig.
Edit: Got the word back, and the word is ‘Toast.’
