I Am Magnificent!

[kerravonsen]

It's after ten at night, I haven't had dinner, I have a headache, BUT I am typing this on my laptop in my air-conditioned bedroom using a wireless connection! Yay!

I've been working on my laptop all afternoon and evening; the first part of the exercise involved setting up my laptop with a different method of kernel-building (which was supposed to be easier, but it did weird things along the way). And I thought, hey, while I'm rebuilding my kernel, I might as well get my long-postponed wireless networking working. Which would have been easier if the documentation I'd consulted had been a bit less fragmentary. But I did it in the end!

Now I am better equipped for the summer, since I can retreat from the hot (double hot due to hot computers) study, into my air-con bedroom, and still be connected. This is a Good Thing.

Comments

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

I am glad that things finally got sorted out with your new computer.

[kerravonsen]

Oh, no this isn't my new computer, this is my old laptop. The new computer is humming along, but I still need to migrate services from the old sick desktop to the new computer.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll agree that you're magnificent. But ::singsongy voice:: My laptop is cooler than yours! And yellow! ::/singsongy voice::

If it ever gets here. ::pout::

[kerravonsen]

My laptop is silver and black, and therefore cooler. Because yellow, however cheerful it is, could never be considered cool. So there.

If it ever gets here.

Sorry to hear that it's delayed.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

It's not delayed. I only ordered it last week, and it should come this week or next. It's just that I'm impatient. This computer is falling apart almost as fast as I am. I shouldn't be surprised, though; I just realized that it's nearly eight years old.

And I didn't say it's cooler because it's yellow. I said it's cooler and yellow. (The coolness comes from its 4GB of memory and other nifty stuff; I went for broke. I figured this is the one time I'll ever be able to afford a really nice computer, so I did.)

[kerravonsen]

The coolness comes from its 4GB of memory and other nifty stuff; I went for broke.

Okay, conceded, it is cooller.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

No, you don't have to concede, I was just playing with you. ::feels bad now::

[kerravonsen]

But 4G is cooler. I only have 1.5G memory on mine.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, Linux doesn't need as much memory to run without crawling as Windows does. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

A yellow laptop! Now that's not something you see every day. Or ever, in my case. That's funky. :-D

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I almost got flamingo pink, but bibliohippo objected strenuously. Mind you, I don't like most shades of pink, but flamingo is one of the few that I do like. Anyway, Dell gives you a choice of eight colors for the case, and matching mice.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Very cool! If flamingo pink is that bright, rich pink, then I like that too. I'm not sure what I'd go for. [googles] Ooh, the pink, blue, and yellow are great. Hmm, the deep red's lovely too. I prefer strong colours; the green's sadly wimpy.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the green is wimpy. Hm, Avon would probably just get black, but I wonder what Vila would get?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think he'd go for the yellow or deep red; he likes warm colours and he has shirts in both those. :-)

I'd probably go for blue in the end to match the furniture and my Wacom tablet.

[kerravonsen]

Well, judging by this outfit, he might get silver.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

True. The silver is a different model, though, so the choice between black and silver might depend on other features.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Well done! [envies you for the aircon so much]

[kerravonsen]

envies you for the aircon so much

It's only one room, my bedroom. I decided a couple of years ago that it was a necessity rather than a luxury because my sleep is so easily disturbed that summer became a nightmare, what with too many nights that were so hot that I couldn't sleep (it is really horrible when the minimum overnight temperature is over 19C). And it did make a great difference. With the added bonus that I now have somewhere I can hole up on really hot days (as well as hot nights).

I decided to get one-room air-con because (a) it was cheaper (b) it seemed a bit silly to air-con the whole house when there was just me there (c) my house isn't suitable for whole-house air-con anyway (one has to put it in the roof or under the floor, and I have a flat roof and not enough room under the house).

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was 21C minimum last night here. :-P I have a fan on a timer which helps. But I won't complain because it's summer and sunny and dry and not raining la la la la la!

We don't have roof room either, but there's heaps under the house. Actually I want a heat pump so I'll be warm in winter too. I can dream.