[ale] Sending from my spiffy old laptop at the library

[byronjeff at clayton.edu (Byron Jeff)]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:16:49PM -0400, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Whee!  IBM 600x w/ 370 mb of RAM, a 20-gb hard drive, and a 500-mhz P3
> processor.  The sticker inside indicates it was built in 2000.  I had
> to make and install a new CMOS battery ( a CR2032 with a special
> socket soldered on to it with tabs), and of course the main battery is
> shot so the machine won't even boot without a power cord.
> 
> But it's running xubuntu 9.10, finally properly tricked out with the
> docking bar on the right side and xubuntu-restricted-extras installed.
>  It's not snappy, but it is definitely useable.  Plus, the Dekalb
> Covington library free wifi is pretty ok awesome.

That's cool. I was at the library less than an hour ago. I didn't realize
that they had finally moved at least into the 20th century and started
offering wifi.

Do you know if they block ssh access?

BAJ