Archives, eh
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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 2007-06-04
- How To: Print to PDF in Ubuntu – Lifehacker ✴
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# Feisty Fawn...that's *f*awn
It’s only now that Feisty Fawn has been released that I realise what a foolish choice of name it was for the Ubuntu people to make.
Perhaps it is my own fault, maybe I inadvertently hacked my brain when earlier today I noticed the rhyme. That if Feisty isn’t arkle sparkle that it would forever be referred to as Feisty Yawn.
And now every time I see a post celebrating the release – ten thousand four hundred and fifty-nine so far this morning – my brain parses the name as Feisty Yawn.
Then again, it isn’t unknown for my brain to deliberately lead me astray – we are mortal enemies after all.
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# Links for 2007-03-26
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# Links for 2006-12-18
- Making Ubuntu look like OSX
Do you think Canoncial look at all these tutorials on how to make Ubuntu look like OSX and think ‘Shit, maybe brown really is a shitty colour’ ✴
- Making Ubuntu look like OSX
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# Edgy first impressions are bad
I think I am the only person on the planet who upgraded to Edgy Eft – which puts me in a vanishly small group already – and wishes they hadn’t.
Since the update browsing the web – in either Firefox or Epiphany – is no longer possible. The laptop more or less stops responding – by that I mean the mouse will moved avery twenty or thirty seconds if I keep trying – and the disk access light flickers constantly. If it was windows I would ctrl-alt-del and kill the process, but I don’t know how to do that in Gnome and I can’t get a terminal to kill the process.
Bah. I’ll have to reinstall Dapper now. Bah.
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# Links for 2006-08-13
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# Links for 2006-07-28
- Make Dapper Drake Perform on Old Hardware
I have Dapper running on a P2 333 and it is a bit creaky ✴
- Make Dapper Drake Perform on Old Hardware
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# Links for 2006-07-02
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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 ✴
