New Beginnings
Hi there. This is coming to you straight from the first new computer I’ve ever owned solely for my use, and not as a family unit. Please heartily welcome a new ThinkPad R61i to the fray. It’s not the powerhouse of Lenovo’s line, but (a) it easily squashes anything I’ve been able to call my own, and (b) I’ll soon be adjusting some things to improve performance.
Note that (b) largely involves removing any trace of Vista from the system. This is a rugged, C2D machine with more than twice the harddrive space of machines I’ve been using in recent years, and yet I’ve only been logged onto it for roughly 20 minutes now and I’ve already had to restart a crashed IE session. I’ve spoiled myself with Slackware, and a minimal environment (no Gnome, KDE, or XFCE; just OpenBox 3.4.x and a couple of utilities like conky). I plan to see what this hardware can really do.
More than a new toy, though, the new rig bears a promise of renewed productivity. I’ve been skulking about elsewhere, writing novellas in comment fields on someone else’s space, neglecting my own. It’s very typical that this sort of ennui results from a dissatisfaction with a particular design and infrastructure, and mine is no different. Now, I have a tactile reminder, a self-imposed obligation staring me in the face. It’s arbitrary, petty, arguably inhumane, but I’m willing to try arbitrary, petty, and arguably inhumane if I can make them my tools.
Luckily, I have no readers any longer, so these words will atomize like a soft-blown fart. But I know I wrote ‘em.
Cheers.
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