Wednesday the new hard drive for my laptop arrived. Turns out the 60GB only draws .5A while the original 30GB was 1A, so don't have to worry about the power. Maybe I'll even get longer battery life. Spent a good chunk of Wednesday evening installing RH9 on the laptop. Other than a bad 2nd CD which I had to acquire and burn a new disc for during the install (from a VC on the box running the installer - that was interesting). Got it up and running, although the nv drivers for the video card produced lag. Reminded me of using a Windows box. Thursday I got the real Nvidia driver in and now it's much better. Lag went from something a little under a quarter second to effectively unnoticable, so I'm happy again - one doesn't realize how nice response time is until it's suddenly gone. I finally got the resolution fixed for fonts and stuff. It's nice since now it can render text at tiny sizes and still be perfectly readable. The new driver did something else different too since my background looks a lot nicer too (it's one of the shoreline shots from Monday's roadtrip scaled down to 1800x1200). Thursday's lunch was Noodles with a bunch of the usual crew and Jeff since he had a meeting in Anoka. I think it's time to catch up on my sleep a little bit though - last night poking with getting stuff up and running wasn't good with how little sleep I've gotten the past week. :(