Never satisfied

The "new" Toshiba is cruising along merrily, and I couldn't be happier.  I've been wanting to take it "out on the road" today, but it's a Saturday, and I really don't want to be toting a fairly large laptop about.  Not only that, but it's boiling hot and humid out, not the best weather to drag our electronic friends out in.

While cruising around online, I dropped into Carl Draper's Tech Thoughts blog.  He's much more knowledgeable than I'll ever be, and has some truly cool stuff going on, so I like to drop in every now and then and check things out.

One of his entries was on getting Linux up and running on an older Panasonic Toughbook, which of course got me thinking about my Toughbook, which has been sitting, forlornly waiting ever since I installed its new CD/DVD drive ages back. 

I did a quick CD test of Puppy on it (Precise 5.6, I believe) right after installing the new drive, and things worked fairly well.  Puppy at least recognizes the touchscreen, and I seem to remember it also saw/recognized the wireless.  However, the touchscreen calibration is off (I gather this is a common problem when going to Linux on these systems).  And I really need to use the touchscreen, as the touchpad seems to be overly slow.

I was quickly browsing through some old entries on installing Linux on Toughbooks, and noticed a possible cure for the touchpad calibrations.  It also reminded me to go in a check the acceleration settings on the touchpad.  I've still got Windows XP on the CF-29, and was having trouble updating (due to having FireFox as the default browser; you know that story), so I'd be glad to get something more workable (and up to date) installed.

So, there's the next project, when I work up the motivation:  Get Linux up and running on the Toughbook.  All the while playing with the Toshiba.

I think my materialism is getting the better of me.......