My Computer Information Page

My Desktop Computer

Dell Dimension 4300

• • Intel Pentium(R) 4, 1.60 GHz CPU

  • 1 GByte RAM

  • 2 160 GByte IDE Seagate HDDs

  • 1 500 GByte SATA Seagate HDD

  • 1 Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATALink

  • 1 Samsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B

  • 1 16 MB ATI Rage 128 Ultra

  • 1 LG Flatron W1952TQ Monitor

  • 1 Std 3 1/2 Floppy Disk Drive

  • 1 Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical

  • 1 Dell Enhanced Quietkey PS2 w/ Delltouch

  • 1 Linksys NC100 Fact Ethernet Adapter

  • IEEE 1394 Firewire

  • USB 1.1

  • USB 2.0

Main Operating System

Windows XP SP3+

Main Programs:

• • Firefox 3.6.x

  • Minefield Trunk 3.7pre

  • Opera 10.x

  • Chrome Beta

  • IE8

  • Micro$oft Office 2003

  • Thunderbird 3.0.x

  • Avira Antivir Personal

  • Comodo Firewall

  • Winamp

Secondary Operating System

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Main Programs:

• • Firefox 3.6.x

  • Minefield Trunk 3.7pre

  • Thunderbird 3.0.x

  • Opera 10

  • Chrome Beta

  • OpenOffice

Note: I have the luxury of two HDDs. Since they are IDE ATA drives, I have them jumpered to CABLE SELECT. I was then able to install Ubuntu to the drive in the Master position and afterward, set up GRUB2 to handle the dual booting between Ubuntu and Windows. When booting into Windows, GRUB remaps the HDDs--hda0 = hda1 and hda1 = hda 0--on the computer and Windows starts. I have Windows set as my default OS.