I upgraded Ubuntu to Feisty beta yesterday. The upgrade bombed pretty hard. Probably why it’s still a beta. I think I managed to salvage things though.
This is another thing I sometimes miss about Gentoo: Gentoo’s upgrade messes were always spread out over the course of many months, and then one […]

One thing I very much miss in Gentoo is controlling what is compiled into my Vim. You need to enable perldo and rubydo support at compiletime. Gentoo had USE flags to do it. In Ubuntu I get perldo but no rubydo by default, which is annoying.
The reason I need perldo/rubydo is because […]

So after Windows having collapsed into a heap of flaming ruin, leading me to delete it in disgust and vow never to let it defile my hard drive again, I realized I have a spare 34GB partition on my drive just sitting there. I’m not even sure what to do with it.
It […]

In Ubuntu I just ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and I noticed it wanted to remove nvidia-glx for some reason (conflicting with some kernel package). I thought well, that’s not good. But I let it go anyways as a sort of experiment. Then I logged out of Gnome and restarted GDM. As […]

Note to self, Ubuntu uses GCJ for Java by default. To get Sun’s Java and set it as default,
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
sudo update-alternatives –config java

A lot of updates popped up in Ubuntu in the past couple days. Looks like a new version of xorg is out. I must admit I’m a bit nervous actually doing this upgrade. There is no etc-update, though there is something similar that asks if I want to overwrite config files with […]

Haven’t posted one in a while. Gnome + Beryl, Buuf icons, MurrinaNeoGraphite GTK theme. I caught a window in mid-closing-animation, but I thought it looked neat so I left it.

It’s been about a month since switching to Ubuntu. So what do I miss about Gentoo? A couple things…
Last week the repository I was using for my beta Nvidia driver seemed to have disappeared. That’s kind of a bad thing. Gentoo was great at having lots and lots of stuff in […]

The latest version of Beryl, or whatever version I just installed (0.1.2 I think) has new effects (new to me anyways). One is Beam Up and the other is Burn. Beam Up is like a Star Trek transporter effect. Burn is a flame animation, but if you set it to random colors […]

I hit a snag in Ubuntu today trying to mount a Samba share. Turns out smbfs support wasn’t installed by default. Trying to figure out what to actually install was not fun. Packages called samba, samba-common, and smbclient looked like likely candidates. But nope, it was a package actually called smbfs. […]