Here we go again… I am leaving in 2 days for Vancouver again. This is a repeat of last year’s visa stamping thing at the US consulate there. It should go much smoother this time since they already have most of my information on their computers. I guess we’ll see if I am staying 6 days or a month and a half like last time 
On a brighter note, I have been mucking around with Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad T42. I have to say that so far, it pretty darn good after running automatix and bringing over the Tahoma font from the NTFS partition. Performance is acceptable and the features are just amazing. I will be taking this laptop with me to Vancouver and working remotely through VPN, which incidentally was a breeze to configure on Ubuntu.
Lalla Mira
/ February 20, 2008Are you actually using that IBM for real? Or is it just your toy for experiments?
I’ve had a good deal on a similar laptop lately, and all my friends are telling me that those should disappear from the market, and that I should rather opt for a machine that’s crammed with more up-to-date stuff.
yfilali
/ February 26, 2008I did use it for a while and it worked great with Ubuntu. I have a friend who still uses the same T42 with Ubuntu and she is very happy with it. I moved on to a MacBook since and had to give mine back to work.