{"id":308,"date":"2005-10-13T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2005-10-13T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T17:20:42","slug":"tales-of-the-new-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/13\/tales-of-the-new-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the new laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new laptop<\/a> has arrived, and it’s considerably larger than I’d hoped, which kind of sucks. However, the screen is beautiful and it’s making me forget all about the size. I had planned on re-imaging the machine with Windows XP Professional, but caved in and decided to go Linux again – this time with Gentoo<\/a>\/Fluxbox<\/a>. I had a lot of mixed results last time, but this go around I won’t be using the laptop for work purposes, which means….<\/p>\n

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  1. It doesn’t have to support LEAP wireless authentication<\/li>\n
  2. I won’t be spending 50% of my time (or more) using Microsoft Word<\/li>\n
  3. I won’t be using an Exchange server, and therefore won’t need to use Evolution<\/a>\/the exchange connector<\/li>\n
  4. I won’t be using Rational ClearCase, MS SQL Server, or any other Windows-specific development tools<\/li>\n
  5. I won’t be hooking the laptop up to a projector<\/li>\n
  6. I won’t be using VPN software that is more Windows-friendly than Linux-friendly (in fact, the opposite)<\/li>\n
  7. It doesn’t have a fingerprint scanner on it, taunting me because said scanner has no Linux drivers<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Those were all pain points for me with Linux on my previous laptop. Managing wireless connections was also tedius – iwlist\/iwconfig – manually typing everything and having no saved profiles, just hacked up shell scripts. I did some research and it seems like GUI tools for this are coming along<\/a> so I will try them. Also, this time around I made sure to set up a swap partition that was twice the size of my memory, so I should be able to get suspend-to-disk (hibernate) working.<\/p>\n

    The laptop is up and running now with Fluxbox and Gentoo installed… but I’ll be busy tweaking it for the next few days\/weeks I’m sure. It will be nice to have a fully tweaked OS optimized for the machine with no virus scanners running and minimal overhead. When I finally get it set up the way I want, I’ll post a screenshot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The new laptop has arrived, and it’s considerably larger than I’d hoped, which kind of sucks. However, the screen is beautiful and it’s making me forget all about the size. I had planned on re-imaging the machine with Windows XP Professional, but caved in and decided to go Linux again – this time with Gentoo\/Fluxbox. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-4Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}