Monthly Archives: March 2008

"Roll Your Own", Uncategorized

Hardy Upgrade II

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The initial upgrade to 8.04 broke my sound and my network card.  And I couldn’t use the mouse.  But I don’t know if that maybe just had something to do with the network hanging, trying like hell to get an IP.  The upgrade process itself went really smoothly, though.  Also, seemed as though the video driver wrinkles from 7.10 have been smoothed out.  So that’s nice.

What I may try to do, again, since I have the /home in its own space anyway, is do a clean install again of the rest of the system.  The biggest drawback is having to reinstall all your optional packages.  With APTtoCD, though, it’s (fairly) painless.

I’m not that interested in spending a whole mess of time on it, though.  It’s only a beta, after all, and the first one at that.  To be continued.

"Roll Your Own", Uncategorized

Hardy Upgrade

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I decided that I would use this blog as a repository for my adventures in Ubunt-ing as well as all the normal day-to-day shit that makes up my existence.  That said, unless you give a shit about computers and geek-related stuff like that– nothin’ for you to see here…

I got an email last week that said Ubuntu 8.04 was now officially in beta, with a release due the latter half of next month.  I’m not really very good at being a tester or submitting info about bugs, but… ah, well.  After reading over the release notes for the beta,  there’s a lot of stuff worth getting a look at.

I couldn’t remember if I still had that second hard drive installed in my desktop machine or not.  Fortunately, I did create a separate partition for /home the last time I installed, so everything else is only running at about 4 gigs.  I was ready to do a backup to DVD, but it turned out that second drive IS in there.  Just made a copy of the partition in GParted, and then started up the graphical upgrade tool in Gutsy.  Still downloading all the new packages right now, but I’ll have more to say about the switchover soon…

General, Uncategorized

An Open Letter to My Candidate of Choice, Barack Obama

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Dear Senator Obama,

During your candidacy, one goal I recall that you mentioned is getting high-speed Internet access to as much of the nation as possible.

Pleasepleasepleaseplease–for the love of all that is right and holy on this Earth–I really need you to get my folks the high-speed Interwebs.  After all these years, they are still on dial-up, and I could write all the stories on cnn.com myself in the time it takes that mother to load.

I mean, shit.

Thanks.

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Continuing Evolution

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I tried to import all my previous blog entries via RSS the other day.  That didn’t work at all.

It brought in the titles of all the posts and the timestamps, but none of the content itself.  I’m not quite sure why, when you run that importer, the WordPress looks for a local file, rather than a feed address.  I suppose one could, in theory, import ANYONE’S blog as their own (???).  Anyway, I figure I’ll give it another go at a later time.

I’m having some trouble getting logged in to my server from work the last few days, too.  But only when I use WinSCP, not PuTTY.  Eh, weird.

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It's Not Just About Temperature or Snowfall

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Talked to a number of people over the winter who, somehow, still want to believe that climate change is some sort of liberal ruse to accomplish… well, really, no one has ever specified what the point of that would be (kind of like faking a Moon landing), but there are still plenty of folks who aren’t interested in believing the words of scientists.

Y’know, the ones who do the science.