Normally my day at office starts with checking my mails as for most of us professionals that is supposed to be very important. And that too when you are in service industry directly in contact with your clients, being the front face of your organization, it becomes critical. Yet as now all of you know from my last post, my Ideapad had left me handicapped on that front. So getting rid of my handicap was the first and last thing in my mind at that point. Thinking of every way possible and getting the ideas from different people on my hour long ride to work to revive my lappy I was ready to fight that handicap.
I opened my laptop. Now stop there. I did not start it. I opened it, literally. Opened its back panel to flash its hard disk to the air conditioned atmosphere of my office and removed it from the socket where it was fitted seamlessly. The thing that my laptop is still under warranty had restricted me from performing this act for some time now, but no longer. I had no choice left. I plugged in an external CD drive and an external hard disk to the only two ports available on my Ideapad after that and put the power on to install Ubuntu in the external hard disk. And as now its getting boring and monotonous. So i'll skip to the last part.
Because in the end it does not matter how I did it or what I did? The thing that matters is I saved my data and have an OS running on my lappy that rarely gets affected by viruses and all, and even that rarely is rare. Ubuntu is awesome with its built in drivers. And though it took me two nights and a day, I'm happy to see the screen of my IdeaPad glowing and my clicks working. And for Windows, I'll quote Bruce Willis from the movie Die Hard "Yippie-Kay-Yay you ************ "
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