Archives, eh
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# Links for 2008-11-06
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# Links for 2008-05-19
- 10 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktop. | LinuxHaxor.net
I wish these kinds of screenshots came with summaries of what widgets, &c were used ✴
- 10 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktop. | LinuxHaxor.net
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# Hardy Heron
The first thing I noticed when I upgraded from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron was that for the first time in four upgrades – about two years – it actually worked. Not that it was seamless, I froze up halfway through forcing me to reboot the computer and kick the process off manually from the command line after ten or fifteen minutes of gormless staring at various conf files wondering why I bothered. But after I worked out how to finish the upgrade it more or less worked fine and I could boot to the gnome desktop afterwards.
Year of the Linux Desktop projected to be sometime in 20??.
The second thing I noticed was that Firefox 3 beta 5 (I think it was 5) is the default browser. Wellll, I didn’t exactly “notice”, I knew it was going to be the case. What I noticed was how all my Firefox extensions failing to work. Even when I enabled them, many of them failed to do what they do. Umm…what? Why? Is Firefox 3 so compelling that we’ll go with a beta despite it by definition not being ready for the public? I appreciate that there are longstanding memory use issues that have been worked on in FF3 but the beta breaks my browsing experience.
If only Ubuntu come with a package depository and system update tool that they could have used to roll out Firefox 3 after it was released from beta, a update tool that I could choose not to use until I was happy that my extensions supported the new version.
Anyway. The third thing I noticed was that Hardy Heron isn’t shutting down cleanly on my laptop. It hangs for a moment at a console and then vomits warnings and/or errors. So in fact it didn’t update successfully. Quite sure indeed that it is something to do with my wireless card. I suppose I’ll have to do a clean install afterall. I better start following the ACPI bug for my laptop model now so I can do my clean install after someone works out how to patch the kernel to enable sound.
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# Links for 2007-12-12
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# Links for 2007-06-08
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# Links for 2007-04-24
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# Links for 2007-02-10
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# Links for 2006-12-28
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# Work, Relatives and Wi-Fi
On Tuesday I was feeling lost. On Wednesday I was thinking I had made a mistake. On Thursday I knew I had made a mistake. On Friday I was feeling better and had decided to just roll with it.
The real problem is that I no longer have control. At the last place I had complete autonomy over everything to do with my projects. I was a team of one and accountable only to the client.
Here I have no client. At this point I don’t really even have customers. The sitch, Kim, is that there are a half dozen sites running various vintages of the version 3 codebase. There is then the version 4 codebase which has been in development for something along the lines of a year – maybe eighteen months – but is being kind of forced upon the company by their sole developer. Owner of the company doesn’t see the need for it. I can credibly argue the point from both directions.
To mitigate the coffee situation, I may have Counterstrike installed, but it crashes my system after five minutes. I may have water views and all that, but Darling Harbour is essentially one huge multi-acre rippling mirror reflecting and focusing the light of the afternoon sun straight into my optical nerve. I may have administrator rights on this website but it is a triple-edged sword. Sure, if I like I can browse through people’s private galleries. However people whose private galleries you might want to browse through have no need for a site like adultmatchmaker.com.au. The googles, they do nothing!
My sister made it to the UK fine. She has had trouble settling down as well – she has better reason though, being thousands of kilometres away in the
armpit of the universeMother Country where she knows no-one. Global Roaming didn’t work as expected for her, so she was making stressed out reverse charge calls to Dad. Those crazy poms thought she was South African, although I suppose we can blame Hollywood for that since American actors can only do one accent, Incompetely Trained American Actor, and “Australians” always sound South African or Kiwi.On the other hand, I called her last night. My heart sank when I heard her voice turn all Essex-ey on a couple of words. She’s already turned to the Bland Side.
Meanwhile, the wireless network is networking. The two desktops connect fine, the internet connection is fine, bittorrent torrents, World of Warcraft connects – even if I am planning to close my account in the next couple of days – and so on and so forth. All is wirelessly good. Except for one small thing. The whole fucking point of getting the network was so I could connect to the network on my notebook without having to have cat 5 running across the room. The notebook – or rather Ubuntu – is not playing nice with the PCMCIA card, a D-Link DWL-G630. The windows drivers are installed using ndiswrapper and the ndiswrapper admin tool claims that the correct device for that driver is present. The only problem is that the system hangs up immediately after the login screen. It’s like it is 1998 again and linux’s relationship with hardware is shitting me to tears. Or perhaps it is just my relationship with hardware.
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# Links for 2006-06-21
- An iPod under Linux ✴
- Constitution of the Confederate States of America- what was changed? ✴
- AJAX Remote Desktop Viewer
hmm….yeah ✴ - Recommended Eclipse reading list
I don’t actually use Eclipse anymore because it is a little too hungry for my moderately powered computer. I would probably use it on my desktop though. If I wasn’t too busy playoing WoW ✴ - Ten tips for new Ubuntu users ✴
- Kopi Luwak
I wonder. I wonder if D would buy it for me. I wonder if I would drink it :- ) ✴ - Wasted West ✴
