10 mins ago it told me I had 6 mins remaining and now it has crept back up again

Currently :

tigger@eee:~$ uptime
12:13:00 up 2:39, 2 users, load average: 0.66, 0.50, 0.47

This is sitting in the pub (tea and orange juice sadly) waiting for my car to be fixed. So well over two and a half hours of wibbling and wifi on a low backlight and it has not run out yet. Battery monitor still says 10% remaining but now thinks that will only last 5 mins!

Something is amiss here

edit : right in the end it lasted about 3 hours or so but then died with no warning just a sudden power off.   It had warned me I was low on power earlier but not right at the end.  It might be that it has not had time to profile the power use yet but although it is a bit flakey it seems to be slightly more useful than the Xandros one which I never did trust.

lastminute.com”, “lastminute” and the colour (block of magenta) colour are all trademarks owned by Last Minute Network Limited and/or its group companies.

Erm wtf. I know the Easy Group will hunt you down if you use easysomething and use a predominantly orange colour scheme but I don’t think even they actually claim they have trademarked orange itself.

If this sort of nonsense carries with other companies some of my more colourful trousers may have so many copyright notices on that they will start resembling a F1 car….

It seems my disk had a couple of errors on it and thus had been mounted read only. A quick sudo up to root privs and brisk fsck later, reboot and done
One of those things I suppose…

Followed the install notes and it all worked flawlessly which was a relief as earlier versions of Ubuntu needed a bit of tweaking to get running, but I am pleased to report it is all running fine
Boot up time is not quite as fast as the stunning boot up time of xandros but it seems ok and I might have a go at tweaking it a bit to shave a few seconds off the boot time

Main index is here :  http://da.mned.co.uk/colorado-quick-start-howto/

Done:

• Inflating Tips 25/10/2008
• Deflating Tips 26/10/2008

To be added:

• Skegs
• Getting in/out easily
• Paddles
• Speed vs Hardshells
• Clothing
• Suppliers
• Handy sites

Our put in point was at Hampton Lode, there used to be a ferry over the river there until last year when it was washed away in the same rains that did for the SVR :(    Our take out point was at Arley which is approx 4.7 miles down river.

The river was a little, erm,  frisky :)  It was estimated that it was about 8 feet higher than normal and there was a lot of debris in the river.   Dave estimated that last time he did this trip it took him about 3 hours ish.  Due to the strong current we flew down it in about 1.5 hours

Damn good fun :)  Landed at Arley for a cup of tea and a bacon sandwich in the tea rooms

One thing that puzzled me with the bacon sandwich was that for some reason it was served with a small stack (about 5) plain pringles.  This did baffle me somewhat but at least it was not grated carrot

Does make pretty pics though

A close up:

Sadly this was closed when we went but should be open at the weekend :)