Please wait ...
Yesterday my sister's new computer arrived, a
Thinkpad R50e.
At first glance it seems to be a quite good deal for EUR 777, the keyboard is
nice, the whole thing looks robust without being to heavy. I think the fan to
be a little bit loud, though and 1024x768 is a little bit meager for a 15''
display nowadays. The machine is supposed to run quite nicely with Linux but as
my sister is used to Win* (doing all kinds of evil stuff with Excel at work) XP
will stay. After initial installation I started pulling security updates and
missing software, which yields to the title of this entry. Two hours, 200MB
downloads and iirc 3 reboots later I finally had a starting point. Now I'll
need to take a picture of a local cow or midden and set it up as
background-image, as a memento for my sister when she's far away...
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Posted by Andreas Metzler
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