ten billion butterfly sneezes

In my unabashed geek glee in seeing my first post from my new laptop appear on the interweb, I neglected to provide linkage to all the items that make up this cool little laptop. So, here goes:

• The hardware: Toshiba Satellite A135-S4527.
• The OS: Fedora 7. ¹
• The wireless drivers for the on-board Atheros wireless: MadWiFi. A relatively painless install, with minimal hand-to-laptop combat. The WPA key is installed via a program called wpa_supplicant; I thought that was an apt name.
• The blog software: BloGTK. Again, easy to use, though I’d prefer a Linux version of ecto only because I’m used to ecto. I’ll learn to drive the BloGTK client in due time.
• The case: The Brain Bag, from Tom Bihn. Not cheap, but durable, and oh so trendy. This item is on order.

And last but not least, every system deserves a name. My first laptop was named nomad, because it could travel around with me. I’ve christened this one gypsy, indicating far more wanderlust than I probably possess.

-k-

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