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+ <title>Thank you Thinkpad X41, for your long and trustworthy service</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>This Christmas my trusty old laptop died. It died quietly and
+suddenly in bed. With a quiet whimper, it went completely quiet and
+black. The power button was no longer able to turn it on. It was a
+IBM Thinkpad X41, and the best laptop I ever had. Better than both
+Thinkpads X30, X31, X40, X60, X61 and X61S. Far better than the
+Compaq I had before that. Now I need to find a replacement. To keep
+going during Christmas, I moved the one year old SSD disk to my old
+X40 where it fitted (only one I had left that could use it), but it is
+not a durable solution.
+
+<p>My laptop needs are fairly modest. This is my wishlist from when I
+got a new one more than 10 years ago. It still holds true.:)</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Lightweight (around 1 kg) and small volume (preferably smaller
+ than A4).</li>
+<li>Robust, it will be in my backpack every day.</li>
+<li>Three button mouse and a mouse pin instead of touch pad.</li>
+<li>Long battery life time. Preferable a week.</li>
+<li>Internal WIFI network card.</li>
+<li>Internal Twisted Pair network card.</li>
+<li>Some USB slots (2-3 is plenty)</li>
+<li>Good keyboard - similar to the Thinkpad.</li>
+<li>Video resolution at least 1024x768, with size around 12" (A4 paper
+size).</li>
+<li>Hardware supported by Debian Stable, ie the default kernel and
+ X.org packages.</li>
+<li>Quiet, preferably fan free (or at least not using the fan most of
+ the time).
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>You will notice that there are no RAM and CPU requirements in the
+list. The reason is simply that the specifications on laptops the
+last 10-15 years have been sufficient for my needs, and I have to look
+at other features to choose my laptop. But are there still made as
+robust laptops as my X41? The Thinkpad X60/X61 proved to be less
+robust, and Thinkpads seem to be heading in the wrong direction since
+Lenovo took over. But I've been told that X220 and X1 Carbon might
+still be useful.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps I should rethink my needs, and look for a pad with an
+external keyboard? I'll have to check the
+<ahref="http://www.linux-laptop.net/">Linux Laptops site</a> for
+well-supported laptops, or perhaps just buy one preinstalled from one
+of the vendors listed on the <ahref="http://linuxpreloaded.com/">Linux
+Pre-loaded site</a>.</p>
+</description>
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<title>How to find a browser plugin supporting a given MIME type</title>
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- <title>How to backport bitcoin-qt version 0.7.2-2 to Debian Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_backport_bitcoin_qt_version_0_7_2_2_to_Debian_Squeeze.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Let me start by wishing you all marry Christmas and a happy new
-year! I hope next year will prove to be a good year.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bitcoin.org/">Bitcoin</a>, the digital
-decentralised "currency" that allow people to transfer bitcoins
-between each other with minimal overhead, is a very interesting
-experiment. And as I wrote a few days ago, the bitcoin situation in
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> is about to improve a bit.
-The <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/bitcoin">new debian source
-package</a> (version 0.7.2-2) was uploaded yesterday, and is waiting
-in <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">the NEW queue</A>
-for one of the ftpmasters to approve the new bitcoin-qt package
-name.</p>
-
-<p>And thanks to the great work of Jonas and the rest of the bitcoin
-team in Debian, you can easily test the package in Debian Squeeze
-using the following steps to get a set of working packages:</p>
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-git clone git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/bitcoin
-cd bitcoin
-DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE=1 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp fakeroot debian/rules clean
-DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noupnp git-buildpackage --git-ignore-new
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>You might have to install some build dependencies as well. The
-list of commands should give you two packages, bitcoind and
-bitcoin-qt, ready for use in a Squeeze environment. Note that the
-client will download the complete set of bitcoin "blocks", which need
-around 5.6 GiB of data on my machine at the moment. Make sure your
-~/.bitcoin/ directory have lots of spare room if you want to download
-all the blocks. The client will warn if the disk is getting full, so
-there is not really a problem if you got too little room, but you will
-not be able to get all the features out of the client.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
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