Plaidophile

So I should probably not have sold my MacBook so soon in anticipation of new ones. Between my work laptop and my OLPC I am pretty annoyed at my options for couch computing.

Work laptop problems: kind of crappy wireless, horrible touchpad, failing screen

OLPC problems: I finally did get a decent UI on it (it turns out it's actually pretty easy to get XFCE on instead of Sugar - if only I knew that BEFORE spending hours and hours trying several different ways to get Ubuntu on it, thanks to OLPC's horribly-organized wiki! GRR!) but that doesn't matter because can't get it to connect to my WiFi at all (it'll connect at work though). Oh and it has a crappy touchpad too, but at least that's not a big deal in xfce since it's actually got, you know, keyboard access.