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礼拜六终于买到X61s，成了我用来上网打字的机器。X40终于可以退役，用来搞一些好玩 的不实用的东西。

在网上搜过很多资料，旧的笔记本拿来干什么比较好玩。以下是几个在下搜到的几个网页：

• Lifehacker: Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects
• Makeuseof: Top 10 Cool Uses For Old Computers And Laptops
• Gizmodo: Five Things to Do with Your Old Laptop

在所有的选项当中，觉得用来做Home Server比较实用。虽然本身的硬盘很小，但是支持USB就不用担心空间不够。刚刚发现，原来X40的CPU是LV的，放在一边，省电又不热。扔在角落里都不用管它。只是我的X40的硬盘已经打算退休了，经常会有一下一下的声音出来，用来放在那边做服务器真实不放心自己的数据。

X40的硬盘就是传说中比SSD要贵，比软盘慢的1.8寸的 Hitachi绝种硬盘。它的接口方向又恶心，再更换或者升级都不现实。

本人遇到这个问题，说明有很多人遇到过这个问题。很多人遇到过这样一个跟电脑有关的问题，说明网上会有答案。

答案就是CF卡+转接来做硬盘。

比较集中的信息在Thinkwiki:X40都可以找得到。

在Ebay买到这个CF->IDE转接口，支持一个CF卡。货在香港，礼拜天付款，到这里最快这个拜五，最迟公历新年。

关于这个问题最强大的讨论在Thinkpad Forum。

X40的硬盘慢是公认的，不过在下还是做个测试，以便日后比较。

硬盘慢的话，swap起来系统基本就废了，没有任何生命迹象了。把swap关掉：

swapoff -a

内存够大的可以试一下。在下的X40只有768MB的内存，说大不大，说太小又不是。不过关了swap暂时还没有什么问题，不过系统倒是没有植物人过了。

如果CF卡升级Ok的话，打算再试一试其他的操作系统，在决定最后选什么做服务器。

现在X40还在跑Ubuntu 10.04，似乎做服务器这个系统有点浪费。以前一直想试一下FreeBSD或者OpenBSD，现在终于又空闲的机器来玩了 。

最后说点题外话：

All in One SEO Pack是比较强大。自从上次用过之后，招来的Spam比我以前半年的总和都多。

WordPress 3.3 code named “Sonny” was released on last Monday. which I just learned after today’s login. I have been using Live Writer for all my posts recently and really been away from the so called Dashboard quit long time.

My host supports WordPress painless update, with one click of button. I sure hope my host can just update all software packages, plugins and themes without my attention at all.

The first thing you will notice after this update is the UI improvement.

Second best thing, is for uploading multimedia files. Finally the drop and go option for WordPress arrived.

By the way, WordPress gave me gentle warning that my Firefox is out of date. Thanks, but I am not following Firefox for their “rapid development model”. It’s considered out dated for a browser released on 2010 new year.

Enough on WordPress.

Today I just bought a new-for-me ThinkPad X61s with 4GB ram and a 7200 rpm hard disk which came installed with Windows 7 Ultimate. I just tried out Ubuntu LTS on this and it’s been working great. Really enjoying the screen, small but much more readable than my “OLD” T60P.

This machine is so light that I can hold it single handedly with another typing on it. And I have just done that on the way back while waiting for bus coming. Now I can finally retire my trusted X40, which is really showing its age.

Strangely enough, for a business class laptop, it comes with a SD card reader, which is not even presenting on my T60P, a workstation special tailored for graphic/design. This coming Chinese New Year I will again be out travel, X61s will be such a great companion for photo storage and light editing, status update on Facebook (can be done on smartphone as well, but I prefer real keyboard even for lightest type task), a few songs or movies while on plane and general search (taking advantage of the free WiFis offered).

For the old T60P, I am planning to get a Ultrabay slim HDD adapter for a second internal hard drive options. The hard drive price is insane now, but will come down eventually. Hopefully it will get a SSD system drive in the main hard drive bay as well as a large and power efficient HDD in the Ultrabay.

Life has been great for this year, and it’s just getting better into the holiday season.