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I was issued a ThinkPad T510 laptop, apparently to stun any marauding elephants that might endanger my safety. It's heavy.

== BIOS ==

(This did not happen in this order, but the mythical reader of this page would be better off if they did this first.)

On a whim, I checked how much physical memory was installed: 8GB. Cool! Unfortunately, it was only seeing 4GB. Same on Windows. Problem turned out to be the BIOS, so after wasting half a day tracking it down, I reflashed and now have 8GB.

== OS Installation ==

It came preinstalled with Windows 7. Partitions were:
* (unallocated): Looks like there's some hidden stuff at the beginning
* sda1: looks like the boot partition
* sda2: main Windows partition
* sda3: 10GB Lenovo restore partition

I installed Fedora 13 on it.
* Needed to alter boot command line to pass intel_iommu=off or it would spew errors constantly and fail to install.
* I resized the main Windows partition, and then backed up the restore partition onto it and blew that restore partition away. (I needed a partition for LVM + a boot partition.)
* I made a 500MB boot partition and the rest an extended partition with an LVM partition inside it.
* Then I made logical volumes for / and /home and swap. Good enough.

== Packages ==

* zsh
* emacs
* mercurial
* gpointing-device-settings
* a whole bunch of stuff for building Mozilla
  yum install \
    zip gcc-c++ glib2-devel gtk2-devel fontconfig-devel libnotify-devel \
    libIDL-devel alsa-lib-devel libXt-devel freetype-devel pkgconfig \
    dbus-glib-devel curl-devel autoconf213 xorg-x11-proto-devel libX11-devel \
    libXau-devel libXext-devel wireless-tools-devel glibc-static yasm
* I wonder if 'yum-builddep firefox' would have worked for that last one...

== Touchpad ==

Install gpointing-device-settings. Under "tapping", add some time to the top slider. Then go to System/Preferences/Mouse and enable tapping to click.

== Focus Follows Mouse ==

Gnome has decided in all their wisdom to use the stupid click-to-focus model. Fortunately, Fedora has a way to revert to focus-follows-mouse: install the control-panel-extra RPM, go to System/Preferences/Windows, and check "Select windows when mouse the mouse moves over them".