Bite the Bullet

“Sometimes you just have to “bite the bullet” and do what needs
to be done, rather than what you would prefer to do, or what you
would really like to do. That’s what happened to me with my
friends’ laptop over the weekend.

“As I have previously mentioned, a friend contacted me Friday
morning with a dead laptop – major graphic hardware problems. This
was a system that I had worked on before, so I knew the most likely
case was that there would be no saving it this time. So I told her
to bring it to me, and I would extract her data and prepare another
system for her to use while she decided on a new purchase.

“My plan was to prepare my mini-ITX dual Atom 330 desktop system
with the latest Ubuntu distribution (10.04, Lucid Lynx). After
transfering her documents and data, she would be able to surf the
web (Firefox), email (Thunderbird), and work on MS Office documents
(OpenOffice.org).”

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