I have a couple of monitors running on my laptop, which tells me my CPU usage and network usage — useful for those times when I’m wondering why it is unresponsive. Under the CPU usage, there’s a handy infographic that informs me of my uptime. Pretty useless since I don’t run a server, but a great claim to geekery when I can blog that I haven’t rebooted my computer in over 365 days! Yes, don’t hack my computer because that’s a lot of security patches; plus, I’m operating one hour in the past.

This is particularly impressive because I’ve been using my laptop as my primary computer for the last few years. When I was in school, it was useful because it solved the problem of synchronizing my home computer and my computer at school — just use the same one! Plus there were all the other advantages of using a laptop: surfing in class, not being tethered to your desk, etc. Now that I’m no longer in school, it doesn’t actually make as much sense; but I haven’t gotten around to buying a new computer yet.

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