[ale] Wow, that was pretty easy

[Jim Kinney]

I had a t520 when I was at IBM. Really nice chunk of hardware. The 530 will
take up to 32G ram! Screens are really nice with the matt finish. Very
stout, solid system. Have fun!
On Jun 1, 2013 7:25 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Took delivery on my spankin' new Lenovo T530 Tuesday.  I spent a good part
> of the day today messin' with it.  I took great care never to boot it to
> Windows 7 Home Edition, even though I know I'll never get that part of my
> money back.  Bastardi.  After some fiddling with various liveCD distros, I
> loaded Debian Wheezy on her.  She's now called "antling".
>
> Wheezy meant I had to  explicitly install a package to enable the evil
> proprietary wifi (Intel Centrino). I disabled the annoying touchpad in
> software in favor of the lovely Trackpoint ("nipple"). .  Drilled  a small
> hole in the case with my pocketknife so I could touch-find the <home> and
> <end> keys.   Removed the "Lenovo Experience" and "Windows 7" stickers and
> threw them away.
>
> I'm still kind of moving in:
>
> apt-get install audacity
> apt-get install emacs-23
> apt-get install svn
> apt-get install build-essentials
> apt-get install git
>
> This machine is blazin' fast compared to my old R50. Some of the amenities
> are pretty nice too: keyboard and screen lights, a switch to turn wifi
> completely off, speaker and mic mute buttons.  Sleep seems to work jus'
> fine. I specifically ordered a machine without a built-in webcam.   A
> picture for good luck ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/glantriff/8917203291/).
>
> -- CHS
>
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