My Last (Complete?) Day in Vancouver? Ubuntu!
I guess waking up at noon isn’t the best way to spend my last day in Vancouver. But hey, one has to rejuvenate oneself after a 342-km drive to the Seattle Premium Outlets and before an eleven-and-a-half hour flight to Beijing?
Frankly — and not so surprisingly, I haven’t started packing yet. All the pre-trip shopping these days have left me in a daze (especially after staying up for 48 hours the day before the long drive… but that’s a long story 
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Hmm… what do I want to talk about today? Let’s see here… Ah ha! I finally got my Thinkpad T61 up and running. I hate to say admit this, but, it’s running Ubuntu. Ubuntu is the difference of night and day from what I’m used to using — Gentoo Linux (who’s latest release fiiiiiinally came out on July the 6th, three whole months late). I have to admit it, Ubuntu “just works”. The installation itself takes less than 30-minutes. Afterwards, the laptop just boots up and runs: all the hardware … just works — sounds, wi-fi, special keyboard buttons. I was simply amazed.
(This is gonna be a bit of directionless post where I’ll ramble on purposelessly… hang in there )
Now my T61 is running smoothly on Ubuntu Hard Heron 8.04. Everything runs flawlessly, even including automated fan control through tp-fancontrol and the fingerprint reader. Now I’ll have to get vpn running before the trip, so that I can keep on blogging (through the UBC VPN) while I’m in China (damn censors.. my blog’s blocked in China!) and browse the net freely.
That’s about all for now. If there’s anyone out there reading this (anyone?), stay tuned!
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