So far, I think my notebook is dying. X sucks, the screen is realy dark. Not too bad in console though. Still a little wierd. The brightness is just kina randomly changing on me. I don't know what's up. I took it appart, and the backlight seems fine. I think it's either a problem with the LCD part, or the video controler. It's hard to tell though.

This annoys me, since this is realy my only working computer at the moment (adie from my mac). But it also makes me happy in some ways as well. I so need to get a better notebook. This thing being flakey, and unusable gives me a good excuse to do so. That has it's own set of problems though.

I realy want a 3 button pointing device. I can't find one like that. Hmm, I guess I'll just have to live with chording. I can deal with that. But it gets deeper than that. Nobody will sell me a notebook without makeing me pay the Microsoft tax. That freaking blows.

Yes, and I can't get one without those stupid 'doze keys. Hmm, what the hell good are they going to do me? Fucking get in my way. That's about it. Also, most of the notebooks I looked at today have stupid AGP video cards. WTF!? I want a real notebook. Something with a C&T display, 16bpp color, pasive matrix (it's the only way), and a three button pointing device. Why can't I find something like this?

Maby a velo, those are pretty sweet. A wierd aspect ratio, but still very sweet. I need something that linux will be friends with. Fuck this windows shit, that's for retards who don't know how to program thier VCR.

I realy think I'm just going to end up getting one off of ebay, probably an older system. When they made real computers. I'm also thinking about maby getting a powerbook. If I can run linux on it...oh yah! Much better hardware anyway. But then we get down to the bit about cost. That's where the real problem comes in.

I got my tax return (finaly). It's for enough to buy a cheap notebook. And, with next weeks paycheck, I can get something much nicer. Hmm, but what do I realy need?

I want something with at least 32 megs of ram, I realy don't care about the screen size. Color would be nice, but it's not all that inportant. The keyboard has to be good. I reqire a quality keyboard above most all. Oh, and a sound card. 8bit mono is cool with me.

The speed realy isn't much of a factor either. Right now I'm at 50mhz, and that's cool. It's not like I'm playing these stupid games that require a mainframe to render the graphics. I just like to view pretty pictures :)

Hmm, not much else to say in this issue. Today was good, nothing broke too bad. Not to mention the fact that I got to kill somebody. Well, sorta. Rebooting somebody machine remotely is the closest thing to death that the internet has to offer. He was hacking into a clients stuff. A fight to the death. Fuck with me, or one of my clients...and you will pay...dearly.

I realy should have done something more perminant, like calling up his ISP, and having his account removed. But, that would have been to perminant. I wanted to teach him a lesson. Not totaly fuck him. Think about what you do, and the results from such. It may be your only saving grace.

Being an x-irc-warior, I still know a few tricks :)

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