Fiddling the evening away

I'm back at it on the Thinkpad T400.  Just booted it up this evening, and got the dreaded "Fan Error" message these systems are often afflicted with.  A quick recourse to the canned air seems to have helped, but I have a strange feeling that I'll be dropping it off at the Computer-Shop-Across-the-River before long...

And, before anyone asks, no I haven't installed a Linux distro yet.  However, I'm going to.  And, giving my fickleness, I think I'm leaning towards Bodhi.  I had the old Acer Aspire (which is running  Bodhi) out just a bit ago, doing some YouTube cruising, and I find that I really, really like Enlightenment.  I like the minimalist, "You put what you want" approach.  Granted, it takes time to get it all set up just the way I want it, but...  (Netrunner has some cool stuff, particularly that included version of VirtualBox that I so want to play with.  But it comes with a bit too much bloat for my taste.  Too much stuff I'd have to excise...)

Right now, I've got the T400 booted into MacPup off the USB.  (There's Enlightenment again.)  As a side note, I'm wanting to kick myself for something I did last night.  I did a screen shot last night of some stuff I wanted to save from the 'Net.  However, in my normally addled mental state, I FORGOT TO MOUNT THE USB STICK.  I'd just hit 'save' on the system last night, didn't rename or select beyond the default location.  When I just looked...  No screenshot saved.

Irksome.

I have to do a long road trip tomorrow, and kind of considered taking the T400 here along for the ride.  However, I haven't even installed the new battery yet.  (The old battery seems to be functional, but I haven't tested it to see how much charge it still holds.)  And the fan issue needs to be checked into better.  (I'm not going to be toting a can of compressed air along, so...)  Probably just tuck the X60s in the bag, and maybe tote my Puppy USBs along for the ride.

In other computer news, along with the T400, I got a 512 MB memory stick for the A31, so it will soon be on the upgrade block.  No question about what's going on there.  It's going to be AntiX.  I look forward to getting that system up and fully functional again.  It's a beautiful old computer.  I hope that I can get some drivers downloaded for the  PCMCIA wireless card, so it will be fully untethered.  (Though, to be honest, it might be a better computer for writing, if  I don't have instant access to the online world...)

I think I'll just back over to YouTube.  The evening still needs to be fiddled away a bit...