e-Books Musings

I especially like 'historical fiction" but finding it is difficult. Wikipedia has a fair list of authors.

If we need a peek at what is available from the shady side, we look here. Be sure to have "Adblock" installed because some of these sites love porn advertising in the margins with pop ups.

If you need to change format, use Calibre.

My New Lenovo SL-410

Driver page (impossible to find on Levono site, had to Google, notebook not even listed!)

2842k3ulr15xkw s/n

$420 w/ship/tax from the Lenovo Outlet. ThinkPad SL410 2842-K3U

First caveat, do not use the Lenovo update. It will download the Windows updates and painfully install them one package at a time. Each time you must "agree" to the EULA and each time it reboots. Once was enough for me.

Included is a lot of Lenovo centric software that appears useless and needs to be turned off and or uninstalled. I normally dump the wifi controls and let windows handle things. Lenovo s is so cool I will keep it for awhile at least.

It seems sluggish yet even after some tweaking. Maybe memory increase from 2gb to 4gb will help.

The touch pad is a little strange. If you miss tapping the center it doesn't register well. I have no clue how to use the other nav buttons.

The screen is crisp and colorful and very bright.

Keypad is responsive with nothing too strange in the layout.

Speakers are better than average but nothing fantastic.

Very quiet and runs cool, under 40C on a warm summer day surfing.

More to come.

NF4 and Windows7 (Yikes)

I tried installing Windows 7 on an old NF4 machine (again). I forgot it doesn't work. Well, it does work but you need to grab SATA drivers and nothing from DFI worked for me. I finally found them on this web site. For 32 bit here is a download link.

I had split 2 Raptors on RAID 0 and Win7 would not see it. I installed XP first and then installed Win7. So I didn't use the driver but maybe it would have worked without installing XP first.

Sardu for Multiboot USB

SARDU is a free* software that can build one multiboot support CD, DVD or a USB device (USB stick/pendrive and all removable are supported).
Not tried but marking for possible use.
or YUMI

Use WinsetupfromUSB and don't bother with the others.