Installing Arch Linux (Again)

Two disks, six mount points

For all my undergrad, my laptop was a refurb’d EliteBook 2540p. It was released in 2010 around the $1000 mark, and I picked it up in the summer of 2014 for $300. It was a little 12-inch thing, came with Windows 7 and no bloatware to speak of. I loved that thing, despite the overheating, the weight, the first-gen Intel Core series chip, the pathetic battery life, and the overheating.

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C language, how I love it

Or at least how I love pthreads

I quite enjoy working with multiple threads to speed up a program. I recently wrote (what I considered) a high-performace timer which read commands in from a named pipe. This afforded the user the ability to script/program around my program as they please. I intend to put header files with all my #define statements so other programs can use it effectively.

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