If God had a desktop…

It would be Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10.

Apparently my brother installed Gutsy and I was caught unawares. So now my kernel panic issues will be ignored, at least until Sunday’s CoD LUG Install Fest. Linkhere

Kubuntu documentation isn’t up yet. In fact, Fesity documentation is missing from kubuntu.org/documentation. Weaksauce.

I’ve had several big issues with Kubuntu Gutsy so far. Firefox did not load at all (errors about security something or another. See Bug #154196 for more info.

Amarok crashes my computer every time I try to click on it. The screen goes black (NOT X crashing. Literally no I/o) and I have to cold reboot.

Add/Remove Programs thinks that I already have a root instance open, and won’t let me run Add/Remove. This happened about 5 times; when I tried to do it again for the blag entry, it worked perfectly. go figure.

KNetworkManager was not set to recognize and start automatically at boot. I had to ifconfig and dhclient the thing. Thanks to Luca for helping me out on that one.

There are core.12727 and core.12900 and core.14019 (you get the idea) files in my /home/user folder. What they are, how they got there, and what they are doing there is beyond me. However, these are program crash data files. File extension- unknown.

And more issues exist somewhere. Hopefully this will get ironed out as I go along.

Xubuntu Feisty Beta

In keeping with the tradition that Jim and I have established, though not spoken of aloud, I went to Chinatown to pick up electronics and talk about Linux with friends.

I came home armed with a 200 gig used HD for about 50 dollars, a might good find imho. I started working around 12 or so. One main thing I noticed right away was how long it took to download the .iso, in my case +30 minutes. Also I downloaded the wrong .iso the first time.
xubuntu live booted nicely, installed nicely and, much like any other Ubuntu install I’ve seen, did a perfect job.  It was my first look at migration manager, and I must say, it was pretty spiffy. The hd was wiped before I bought it, but I could tell Migration Manager was good software. As of 5 minutes ago, everything has been cake.

Feisty seems great so far.

Tomorrow, I mess around with applications and testing it more extensively. Stay tuned….

Some Honesty…

I’ve spent the last few weeks watching House, md. with my brother, checking out all sorts of shoes, baby sitting, concerts (anti-flag killed it, Explosions in the sky tomorrow), midterms and dodging the police all day and night.

That stuff is no joke, and it’s the most serious skateboarding action you will find.

x-chat kind of sucks. I am going to the Chicago GNU/Linux LUG on Saturday with Jim, if those are the plans. Anyone else going? Anyone going to Flourish?

I’ll go back to sucking at being a geek in a few days.

“Eddie, if you’re so smart… why do you say the stupidest things I’ve ever heard?”

Will Crespo is a good buddy of mine and makes skateboarding a million times better than sitting indoors on a computer.

It’s spring! Time for the revolution!

I just installed a 50 gig kubuntu 6.10 partition, time to go play with it.

First post/Install Bug

Before I say anything interesting (never) let me introduce myself. Eddie Martinez. Posingaspopular. I like computers (Ubuntu rox), skateboarding, photography, Freedom, FL/OSS, reading (anything is fine by me), discussing politics with open minded people, movies, music (all genres), sports of all kinds and talking to people in general. My email is eddiemartinez@gmail.com and I don’t mind being contacted by non spammers at all.

Blog, Blago-Blag, Web-Blag etc. Here we go, post #1:

I don’t really know what to do with all this so I’ll just update whatenever anything remotely connected to Linux comes across my lap. I recently (2-11-07) reinstalled my Dapper Ubuntu (thanks to chris_) on my hard drive and the partioning was particularly tricky. Yesterday (2-12-03) I ran into a user at #ubuntu on IRC who was having the exact same problem as me. Note: I’m in there as much as possible, as well as #ubuntu-chicago and #imagi-nation. If I’m online, I’ll respond to ping from any of those rooms. Apparently, there is a bug where Edgy (and Dapper) will refuse to reuse an existing partion and claim ‘no root file system’. The bug report is https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/67130
Does wordpress support HTML? I assume it does, but I don’t know how.

Terminal>root>fdisk>delete partitions (Windows partitions dont need to be deleted). Switch back to the installer and edit it again.

This is for MANUALLY editing a partition table at the installer. I have yet to understand

In particular, my / and swap both went to hda2 after reformating hda2. This is all IIRC though. Hopefully anyone who reads this will now know what to do in case they run across this problem while trying to help someone out. If I’m making myself unclear, or I posted something incorrectly, let me know.

YAY! End of my first blog. More soon if all goes well.

Best Wishes,

Eddie Martinez CC, NC