Today is the last Sunday of 2008. As you can see by the time of this post, I did not get up early! So, enjoy it while it lasts…
Dec 282008
Dec 252008
Merry Christmas everyone.
Dec 232008
Most definitely annoying. F-spot stopped working again. Not sure why. Did a restart and all. This is exactly the thing why I left Windows for what it is, and switched to Linux. Got to kill Bill (for inventing .NET).
Dec 162008
Today I went back to work. Not my regular ours yet, but if things go like today, nothing will prevent that 😉
I’m happy things went so well. The last time I tried to work I had to give up because of the back and nerve pain. Now I needed to watch the clock to stop working because I shouldn’t make too much hours….
Dec 132008
Of course, the new ATI driver did not work either. Yes, it installs, yes, it compiles the fglrx module, but trying to insert it still presents an “unable to allocate memory blah-blah” something error.
Naturally the networking did not work after I restarted X with the old config. Network Manager insists on having no active connections, whereas pinging my other systems works like a charm. I took the advice of another frustrated Intrepid user and
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge network-manager
Indeed, the Network Manager Gnome-applet should be classified as “What Was I Thinking?”. I’m starting to wonder if Intrepid shouldn’t be classified the same.
Dec 112008
AMD released ATI Catalyst 8.12, that supposedly supports Ubuntu 8.10. I’ll keep you updated, I’m downloading now.
Dec 102008
Yesterday I went for my final checkup to the hospital. The neurosurgeon was very satisfied with my progress, and concluded that he did not want or need to see me again. He discharged me. Yeah!
Today I saw my “arbo-arts” and we agreed that I will be working a couple of half days the weeks left in December and starting from January 5th I will work half days on a structural basis (so 5 times a week). When things go well, I will be working full-time in February again.
Finally….
Dec 072008
For some reason the Network Manager icon showed I had no network connection until at some point yesterday the network really stopped working. So in the Network Manager I created a wired connection and not only did that bring back my network, it also made f-spot work! Can’t see what the network has to do with f-spot, but I’m happy anyway.
For some other vague reason (I did not install or update anything of that kind) the “Unable to load NLS codepage cp437” error messages went away. The cifs-mounts are still mounted the same way. *puzzled*
Dec 062008
I upgraded from 8.04LTS to 8.10 yesterday, and it has been nothing but trouble ever since. I had to manually get X working (since there are some problems with the ATI driver obviously), f-spot stopped working (some strange X-windows error), CIFS mounts now complain about being unable to load NLS codepage cp437 (and therefore filling up the syslog with several entries every second), and I will probably find more when I progress on using the system.
This SUCKS big time. I know 8.10 is not an LTS version, but it should be a stable version. I beg to differ.
Update: Azureus (now Vuze) has an auto-update bug (downloads 4.0.0.4, installs and restarts, but remains 3.1.1.0, so wants to update again)