The Thinkpad affair

I own a good old IBM X40 laptop, bought for me by Verint when I was working there.

This laptop had 40GB drive, centrino processor, and 1GB of RAM.

It has a great keyboard and screen, but was really, really slow due to a very (4500 rpm) slow hard disk. Booting XP took ~3 minutes, and the 6 cell battery was dead after 6 years, and was only good for an hour or so of very weak performance.

But I wasn't prepared to get a new one.

So I've decided to upgrade it.

First, I got a 64GB HD from ebay (140$, incl. shipping) and a new 6 cell battery (48$).

Then, I installed windows 7.

There's a problem with windows 7 and centrino drivers, so I couldn't get the laptop to enter standby mode.

This was solved by following the exact directions found here.

So, what did I get?

for less than 200$, my laptop is better than anything at that price.

It will be usable for a couple more years, and it's still one of the lightest/ comfortable laptops around.

The SSD is quiet, and takes less power - Along with the new battery, it now runs over wifi for 4.5 hours! 2.5 was the most I had with the old HD.

Great deal.

We've been indexed....

Google have indexed this blog, which means we've gained another link to Einat's site. BTW - This site should be reposted, as it has a link to myartichoke (My wife's site).

The next projects:

- An update to Maya's site. Should be an easy one.

- Another dynamic site, to which I will add 'updates' section support in my simple gallery management project.

Looks like we're gaining ground

Einat sarig reich is up the charts!

Check this out.

Hebrew search is still not so good...

2nd page only, but at least we're getting somewhere.

Quoted search, by the way (Query exact name) works better.

We'll update next week.

... Second post

Well, looks like the einat sarig reich SEO is advancing... A little bit.

Page is now 5th when querying her name, though in Hebrew, there's not much (yet).

Webmaster tools, of course, does not show any keywords processed.

I'm gonna re post the site, see if we'll make any advancement there.

In any way, because the site does not contain Hebrew content, but does contain Hebrew keywords, google doesn't process the Heb. keywords.