moving disks

Since I'm leaving France for a "little trip" to Mexico, I thought I'd sell my current laptop (a sturdy Lenovo X200) to get something more up to date. After a week fighting with TNT's delivery service support morons, I finally got my hands on a brand new X220. Size is the same, weight does not change that much since I wanted a decent battery life, but overall, it's a fucking win.

But.

The engineers at Lenovo thought it would be fun to have a slightly smaller space to cram a HDD in your laptop, and so my good old SSD (Crucial C300, so far so good) did not fit (too big “that's what she said” blah blah). I had to remove a “useless” part of it following this guy's advice, and boot the laptop hoping it'd be happy this way.

... A firmware package download later (wifi driver), the Debian boots up like nothing happened deciphering my home as usual. Er... I wanted to say that I love when software just works, and oh thank the geeks that kindly make it so (you won't never read these lines, but still, thank you guys).

Also, did I mention I got my plane tickets for september, 30th? Did I mention I'm just as anxious as I'm happy about all this? I hope things work out well at my dayjob, and once I get there too. It'll be the second time I'll be living in Oaxaca, but still.

Are you employed Mr Lebowski?

Je ne suis vraiment pas une bestiole active l'hiver, où j'ai toujours tendance à hiberner. Un terrain fertile d'occasions de larver au chaud : finir des bouquins, des jeux, jouer avec node.js, ou haskell, ou même des bouts de c++... Le tout accompagné de diverses boissons chaudes plus ou moins caféinées (ou lorsqu'on se trompe de porte, de divers alcools). Fort de ma geekitude hivernale (vous avez bien lu), j'ai pris un petit eeepc comme copain de route il y a quelques semaines, pour me rendre compte maintenant qu'il commence à se faire bien petit. Ben oui, c'est petit un eeepc, même en 11 pouces. Aussi j'en ai profité pour le faire grossir, et passer mon bureau mobile sous FreeBSD. Depuis le temps que ça me démangeait... :)

geek-coeff++

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