Guys, I don't know how strongly I can recommend Shaun of the Dead, but I will do my best: I heartily recommend that you go see Shaun of the Dead. There, that was easy! (It's really good.)
My goddamn fucking laptop is fucked up again. I tried to turn it on the other day and the Wireless card didn't pick anything up. So I checked the router, the modem, fucking everything, and it all turned out to be okay. Then I started poking around in the dmesg output, and it tells me that it's been "Disabling IRQ #11" during startup -- according to my fucking BIOS that's the fucking IRQ like all of my fucking PCI devices are listening to! The sound card, the PCMCIA slot, the onboard ethernet, the USB subsystem, the... fuck! So I start removing kernel modules, hoping that maybe it's a kernel problem, even though I haven't switched kernels in like a year, but no dice. I try to boot off a fresh Fedora Core 3 CD, and I get the same shit. I try to boot off a fresh Debian Sarge CD, I get a kernel panic. I install Windows XP, it makes functional the sound card and the onboard ethernet, but not the PCMCIA socket. I do an install of Fedora Core 3, and I'm back to square one again.
So here's what I've got: A 2.4 GHz laptop that can't get on the Internet and can't play sound. Oh yeah, and you can never unplug it because I had to superglue the power cord in place so it would stay charged after the fucking AC intake port just snapped in half. And the fucking case stopped latching 2 weeks after I got it. But I've got a 2.4 GHz laptop that pretty much works, except it doesn't work very much under Linux.
I need a new Linux machine so that I can continue my work. It's driving me crazy. The purchase anxiety... it's driving me crazy. These laptops, they're like... $1500! Jesus fuck. I don't know what to do. I need guidance. Any priests out there? Should I get a Thinkpad? Or a Dell? This is my one hobby. And I feel super-guilty getting rid of this laptop. Maybe Mer can use it?
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