IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads

[vic]

I am now the proud owner of a T400 :)) Taking it for a first testride with the most recent BORK! amd64 release. To no ones surprise I guess. And it is a very very smooth motherfucker!!! No bootup problems. Wireless went BINGO! It looks and feels very fresh for being 6 years old. It still has W7 on it, but that will soon change. The keyboard...well I just love the Thinkpad keyboard, my fingers are...sort of dancing on it. It feels like that for me since I am a slow typer normally. The thought is that it will replace my desktop that gave up on me a while back. Well I were tired of it anyway and had been thinking of replacing it before it would give up on me. Yes I could have torn it apart and rebuilt it. But would in that case have had to start from scratch with new cabinet, psu, etc....Now it just feels great! :)

[bones]

Congratulations, welcome to the ThinkPad club (if you weren't an owner already)! Also, ThinkWiki is great (again, if you don't already know of it):

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

[ivanovnegro]

Congrats Vic and have fun dancing with your fingers. ;)

[dkeg]

Nice vic!

[wuxmedia]

Average Vic post before thinkpad: ~40 words
After thinkpad and "ballroom" keyboard: ~160 words.

The numbers speak for themselves :)

sheesh looks like me and maybe rusty are the only (IIRC) abstainers from the thinkclub...

[rust collector]

*sigh* yes I think we are.
Vics post made me look at them again, jus bcaus i want to know ow great the keybrd really is.
I am prety happy wit my hp keboards.

[machinebacon]

^ as we can see :D

Well, congrats Vic, this was a sane decision. I'd keep the W7 just for the case you have some strange online banking software that requires exactly THIS and no other version of a certain operating system.
And thanks for reporting BORK!64 :)

[darry1966]

@Vic nice stuff enjoy the new machine I'm glad you found a new iron.

[vic]

Ooooh I do in fact have W7 on my T520, it is a multi user machine and works really well. And I will keep it at that, do not even intend to dual boot it. Why? Well the resons are very simple, like what machinebacon said above and I do not want a phone call when I am at work from some frustrated user yelling how the fuq do I get this worthless weird Linux piece of shit to go away!!!! ;) So with this T400 I will BORK! away happily everafter. + thanks for the input, it helped me make the "sane decision" really. :)

[schmickel]

I am now the proud owner of an IBM Thinkpad T41. Just got it in the mail and have been playing with it all day. Just set up an antiX persistent usb stick for it, and plan on installing a bbq flavor on the hd. Haven't decided which one yet. I really like smoothie, but I'm pondering on whether to install professional to start from scratch and roll my own. Anyway, I was happily surprised when I got it from ebay that everything works on it. The ad said it only had 1 gig of ram, but it turns out is has 2. The touchpad assembly is cracked and won't stay down all the way, so I ordered a new one. I might even upgrade the processor and get a new keyboard and hard drive, but I'm very happy with the way it is right now.

[machinebacon]

^ Welcome to the gang of T's! You made a wise choise :)
As for building up or not -- well, I'd take Adipositas and force myself into Emacs, TTY and all the framebuffer goodness :)

[ivanovnegro]

Congrats on your purchase Schmickel.

[darry1966]

Yes as a fellow T'Padder congrats they are great machines.

[kondor]

Howdy Hey, kinda sorta new to the BBQ. Thought I'd chime in.

Running Chlamydia from a Thinkpad T40 here. Came for the Thinklight and Atheros wifi, stayed for the soviet-era aesthetics and solid clunk from the keys. I just love taking the obnoxious little bastard to quiet libraries . . .

Just one thing: No Windows key, wtf? Wish I could make the useless 'Access IBM' key take over the job, but no dice so far. Anybody been down this road before?

[machinebacon]

Hey Kondor, feel free to open an intro thread to get the free blowjobs :)

T43 here, the only thing you can do: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=120065

I would do the /etc/default/keyboard trick, because it works for the system, not just for the user, and it should work in TTY too.

XKBOPTIONS="caps:super"

[wuxmedia]

Yeah soviet T40 tank and T40 IBM made me think too.

What do you use the windows key for anyway?

[machinebacon]

^ It opens "Start" :D

[kondor]

wuxmedia: Mod4 for muh tiling. I've got an itchy Windows finger to try it in PekWM!

I hafta remap capslock for muh evilmode, Mr. Bacon, so that one's out. And Chlamydia is just a little too 31337 for title bars, so I gotta keep them Alt keys handy.

I'd gladly set the escape key to Super, but weirdly, "setxkbmap -option escape:super" doesn't seem to do the trick. Egad, this keyboard remapping is an arcane and eldritch endeavour.

[wuxmedia]

^ yeah using escape is handy when alt is taken (by my WM) to do alt-d in bash. that must be pretty low level.

[machinebacon]

xmodmap -e "keysym Escape = Super_L"

maybe?