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I decided to go out and buy a new laptop this week. It's an HP DV2945SE. Dual core Turion, 14", 4gb ram, low end nvidia graphics card, 320gb hard drive. Came with Vista x64.
Why? Well, the old laptop was going on 3.5 years old, and the secondary fan was starting to rattle, which annoyed me. Second, it only had 1gb of RAM. This was starting to become problematic, especially when working on full sized game maps in Photoshop. Third, despite my efforts to warm up to Windows on VMWare Fusion, it just wasn't working out very well. It was bringing my system (a quad core Xeon with 2gb of RAM) to a crawl, and would sometimes just act weird. Lastly, I decided I wanted a smaller laptop. This one is about 25% smaller and lighter, which I like.
In other news I released win32-eventlog 0.5.0 today, which fixed the event log description issue on Vista and later. Park Heesob is awesome.
I also finished a pure Ruby version of sys-proctable for Solaris 2.8 and later. I figured out that I could, in fact, use IO#sysseek + IO#sysread as Park had originally suggested. That let me remove the io-extra library as a dependency. Yay.
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