Guaka!

I have to admit it, I am typing this using Windows Vista. I really needed a new laptop. I couldn’t wait for amylin to bring me a MacBook, and Apple is just too expensive in Europe. I also considered getting a Dell with Ubuntu, but unfortunately, in Europe they’re only selling them in the UK, France and Germany. And then I saw an ad of a Toshiba with 160 GB HD and 2 GB RAM, DVDRW and all that stuff, for 599 euros. So I went there this morning and got it. I had considered trying for a refund of the Windows tax but Paolo told me, you can do it with Acer, but you pay the costs of sending the laptop to Milano and having it sent back, which is more than the money you get back.

I started my laptop. Vista is yucky. Lots of stuff going on. And then, after not even 30 minutes of using it, without doing anything weird. I copyied some music from an MP3 player, nicely telling Windows that I want to eject it, and I closed the lid. So it went to sleep mode (and I hate it when laptops do that). 3 minutes or so after it woke up I got the Blue Screen of Death. This is what it told me after starting my laptop again:

Firma problema:
Nome evento problema: BlueScreen
Versione SO: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
ID impostazioni locali: 1040

Ulteriori informazioni sul problema:
BCCode: d1
BCP1: B13C3158
BCP2: 00000002
BCP3: 00000008
BCP4: B13C3158
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

File che contribuiscono alla descrizione del problema:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini110807-01.dmp
C:\Users\guaka\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-81916-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\guaka\AppData\Local\Temp\WER71E4.tmp.version.txt

Leggere l’informativa sulla privacy:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=50163&clcid=0×0410

Right now I’m downloading an ISO with Ubuntu Gutsy. I hope next time I need a new laptop they will come with Ubuntu out of the box.

UPDATE: I started a page about GNU/Linux on the Toshiba L40-157.