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I had an old(er) Thinkpad T42p gathering dust, and I’ve wanted to kick Ubuntu a bit, so I chose to install the 8.04 disto on this laptop. I couldn’t believe how smooth the install went. By default, it wasn’t completely optimized, and it was certainly functional. It was cake to add my networked printer just by handing the installer the printer’s IP address.

I even found a site that lists some of the Thinkpad-specific optimizations available. So far, everything is running great. The power management doesn’t look quite as aggressive as under Windows, and I’ll live with that.

Firefox 3.0 came as part of this install, so getting online was smooth. I’ve installed a few extensions, including ScribeFire, and I can’t really tell that I’m not on my Windows box anymore. I’m using Scribefire to create and post this entry now.

I’ve got to show this to some of my friends working on Windows - this will blow their minds (in a good way)…

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I think the folks at my local library are on to me. The King County Library offers a wonderful service - I can log on to their site, search the entire catalog, and have any book/cd/audiobook/dvd/etc that one of the libraries has delivered to my local library in Bellevue.

Lately I’ve been adding folks to my Goodreads friends list. Think of Goodreads as FriendFeed for Amazon - I can read reviews and ratings from just the folks I choose. This morning’s find was a book I read a long time ago, and I need to read again - Garry Wills’ “Lincoln at Gettysburg” - a wonderful analysis of the speech that always reminds me how wonderful the gift of powerful oratory skills can be to a person.

Do yourself a favor - set up an account on Goodreads. I’m “shawnmor” on Goodreads if you’d like to add me as a friend.

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