New computer GET!

[pyesetz]

This is a Panasonic TOUGHBOOK, model CF-Y5.  It is less than two years old.  Reviews are generally positive.  I got it as a Chanukkah present from "Mr. Bear" of Company 𝔾.  And just in time, too!  My previous laptop bit the dust last week, crashing dozens of times a day whenever it got jiggled a litle bit.  I had to pay about $280 in Canadian import taxes for my "gift".

I've set it up for dual-boot with XP (modified with Panasonic's custom drivers) and Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex".  It's mostly working with Linux except

• The "DVD drive off" button doesn't do anything.
• Pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously to create a "middle-button click" doesn't work reliably in Opera.
• Most of the FN+Fx key-combos don't work.  I installed a free-software driver which makes the "brightness up/down" keys work.  It seems that I could also use that driver to make the suspend/hibernate keys work.

This is a stock photo.  My digital camera hasn't been seen since the return from Massachusetts, so I have yet to try out the photo tricks that dakhun told me about.
Rusty Russell: "You never see me hard with time word making sentence coherent stuff. Ever."

Comments

[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

Thou shalt not covet thine neighbour-fur's computer!

I thought it was just their oxen fursuits.

Space-age materials are amazing.

Seconded!

By "real" do you mean "non-Winmodem"?

Basically a DB9 port. I was pretty sure it had one. For me, that kind of thing comes in handy in the field. The one I've got now has to use a USB to Serial thingy, and some devices don't like that thingy and won't talk to it.

Incidentally, I managed to get the wireless working in Linux on my old lappy. (Bad DNS setting) Then hooked it up with the basic LAMP goodies. Yay, it works! (...at least, I think it's working so far)

[pyesetz]

> oxen fursuit
This is the Chinese "year of the ox".  I guess it'll be my year.

> DB9 port
No DB9 on the TOUGHBOOK.

> basic LAMP goodies
It's been a month.  Any progress on the ssh issue?

[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

Yes and no.

I discovered that my IP needs to be added to an allowable hosts list. It's accessible through the web based interface. Unfortunately, I haven't really had any time to mess with it again yet.