Technorati; my new laptop!

[pyesetz]

(Oh noes!  It's been 26 days since my last post.  Pharyngula promises to delete blogs that don't post in a month.)

What's the deal with Technorati?  My blog is now ranked 1,446,383 with authority 3 (about the same as rabitguy), while giza is ranked 142,439 with authority 33.  Pharyngula's actual blog is ranked 131 with authority 301, but Technorati instead says I'm linked from Pharyngula's old blog, whose authority has fallen to 315.  Why doesn't somebody fix these things?

So my ThinkPad 600E has been getting worse and worse.  Now one of the RAM slots doesn't work.  I can't access more than 96 MB of RAM, which really isn't enough for the operating systems of today.  So I got a ThinkPad T23 from Ebay.  Nice!  But it took me over two weeks to get Debian "Etch" Linux working properly on it.  I'm less than impressed with the polish on that distro.  I wrote 14 pages of technobabble (decorated with nekkid pictures of computer parts) about what I had to do to make it work, but it's posted to the web under my RL name so I won't link to it from here but merely crosspost some of the photos.

[Nekkid internal parts]
Modem board:	Ethernet board:	RAM boards:	Hard drive:
[Jacks and ports]
Parallel port	USB ports	VGA port	Serial port
Audio jacks	Modem port	S-video, Mouse ports	Ethernet port
PCMCIA with wireless card		Docking port (= rectum)
[Other cute parts]
Indicator lights	Microphone	Lid switch
Exhaust fan		Infrared transceiver (IrDA)

Comments

[giza.livejournal.com]

Authority? Well, that's new...

[uorden.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to get a new laptop (well, a 'new' used one, anyhow) for a while, but the poor battery performance that seems to invariably come with the designation is frustrating. Why doesn't some company get together and couple a really low-power system, maybe something based around an AMD Geode, with modern battery technology? I don't need speed, just long runtime and SSH!

Other than your Debian woes, do you find the T23 to be a reasonably solid machine?

[cassander42.livejournal.com]

A month is nothing... I went over a year without updating my journal ;-)

Btw, are the emails in your user profile valid? I wanted to send you something private and want to make sure you'll get it.

[pyesetz]

Yes, the second one forwards to the first.

[pyesetz]

It's very light, less than 6 lbs.  If I pick it up by one corner, the thing flexes more than my 600E did.  But I think it's a lot more solid than the crappy Walmart laptop my daughter got a few years ago.  That thing fell to pieces!

I hear OLPC is down to $175 per unit?  I paid $265 to get a T23 without an operating system.

[pyesetz]

I didn't look at how they define it.  Presumably they are trying to get away from those 6- and 7-digit rank numbers for us low-authority folks.

[pyesetz]

I got lucky.  My battery has 2 hours of runtime left, of the original-spec 3½ hours.  Also, on the T23 you can swap out the DVD drive and replace it with a second battery.  On my 600E the main battery held only 45 minutes, so I got a battery shaped like a CDROM-drive on Ebay—three hours!  How much off-juice time does a college kid's machine need these days?