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Comment on New Laptop by Consilience — New Laptop: Setting up Email

Consilience — New Laptop: Setting up Email — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:37:26 +0000

[...] the purchase of a new laptop, I have to re-setup my email’s (and other applications’) configuration. Luckily, I keep [...]

Comment on New Laptop by Greg

Greg — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:01:21 +0000

What I replied to Freddy via email with:
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I wouldn’t tell you NOT to blog about it, of course.

I’d be curious to hear your experience.

Comment on New Laptop by Freddy Martinez

Freddy Martinez — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:33:37 +0000

Hey Greg.

I disagree with your assessment on S76, would you like me to do a blog post about them? I don’t usually check blogs so send me an email…

Comment on New Laptop by Greg

Greg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:31:25 +0000

@Victor: Yeah, they’re are a bit “old school” looking, but I kinda like that since they are fairly well made still (not as well as they used to be, but better than most other non-apple laptops).

@Stephane: Thanks for the tip. I tried it and I got an error, so I’ll keep digging, and maybe ping you on IRC :).

@Amy: Yeah, I like the smaller screen for portability/weight. And with a 1440×900 resolution I’m very happy with everything I can see.

Comment on New Laptop: Setting up Email by Greg

Greg — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:48:27 +0000

@Aaron: Yep :) We all have our vices. It is good to have a vice, just make sure it is a healthy one.

Comment on New Laptop: Setting up Email by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:26:56 +0000

You remind me of somebody… Oh that’s right, me and my addiction to irssi. :)

Good post.

Comment on imapfilter + offlineimap + msmtp + mutt + abook = email by Consilience — New Laptop: Setting up Email

Consilience — New Laptop: Setting up Email — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:23:51 +0000

[...] my email configuration addiction continues. As you may recall, I did an extensive (now out-dated) post about my email setup. I’m still using the basic configuration outlined there (all of the same [...]

Comment on New Laptop by gamerchick02

gamerchick02 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:39:20 +0000

That is an awesome machine.

I’m very happy with my Pangolian (5th revision) and the Starling (1st revision). The Pang is a hair heavier (especially with battery) than I might like, but it just sits on my desk. It’s a desktop replacement. I wanted the Starling for travel. It’s now perfect for that use, especially now with the fixed wireless card and drivers. ;)

Did you want a smaller screen because of portability? I figure a 12.1″ is good compromise between resolution and portability.

Glad you have an awesome machine. I envy the 160 gig SSD. ;)

Amy

Comment on New Laptop by Stephane

Stephane — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:57:14 +0000

Hey Greg,

The x200s is really amazing especially with the Intel SSD. Lucid is booting in 8s according to bootchart on mine !

For that scrolling issue, that actually changed a bit in Lucid, currently I’m using a script doing:
stgraber@castiana:~$ cat fix-mouse.sh
xinput set-int-prop 10 “Evdev Wheel Emulation” 8 1
xinput set-int-prop 10 “Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes” 8 6 7 4 5
xinput set-int-prop 10 “Evdev Wheel Emulation Button” 8 2

That “10″ should be replaced by whatever the mouse’s ID is (though is seems to be consistently 10 here).

Hope it helps.

Comment on New Laptop by Vitor

Vitor — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:42:01 +0000

Dude… these Thinkpads look like old laptops… seriously, why is there STILL that awful red dot in the middle of the keyboard to be used as a mouse? The first laptops used that… LOL

Anyway, nice purchase :P
But, if I didn’t live in Brazil, I would support System76 and buy a laptop from them, that’s for sure… even if it’s not “a Lenovo”, I’m sure everything will run smoothly on Linux :)