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-
[tags]Atheros, BloGTK, ecto, Fedora7, madwifi, tombihn, toshiba[/tags]
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That laptop computer doesn’t sound half bad for the price! That’s like a portable Mac Mini!
Enjoy your new toy!
BTW, what happened to nomad? Nomad is the PowerBook, right?
Sometime this week I’ll update the good ol’ blog and let you know what’s happened with my computers. I too have gone through laptop and desktop motherboard upgrades in the last six weeks.
PJ:
The nomad is the old Sony Vaio. The Powerbook is known as voyager.
-k-
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