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Ubuntu 9.10

Mon Nov 2, 2009, 9:13 AM
All right, so when I woke up for work on the 31st, there was a distro upgrade available. At this point, I was about ready to throw my laptop out the window - 9.04 was buggy for me, with very unstable 3D acceleration, problems with sound output, the headphone jacks - there wasn't much that wasn't borked in some manner or another. Really not very fun to deal with - the CPU was working its ass off to keep things moving on the screen, so my battery life peaked at maybe 2 hours. Overall, it was piss-poor. So, I went for the upgrade without any research - fuck, if I lost everything, I wouldn't really give a damn. So, went for the upgrade, and went for work.

Came back home to find the boot screen on 9.10, Karmic Koala, and upon logging in, I found that all the problems had just evaporated. Proper video drivers, better sound, and with that there was the capacity for all sorts of eye-candy now that the machine was in proper order. Aside from that, there's some interesting new utilities - the Software Center replaces Add/Remove from later versions, which is actually pretty nice, despite skepticism. Additionally, there's an Art Manager for downloading appearance packs straight from art.gnome, which is really handy.

All in all I think it's a great upgrade, and I know lots of people with HP boxes were having big problems. I think that now would be the time to give Ubuntu a shot, if you're curious - this is definitely one of the better releases I've seen.

Although I do sort of reminisce about 6.06, way back in the day, when things were simple, and I was but a noob...

  • Mood: Thrilled
  • Listening to: Rush - Hemispheres
  • Reading: Cleveland Anonymous
  • Playing: UrbanTerror 4
  • Drinking: coffee

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  • Current Residence: Illinois
  • Interests: formal logic, typewriters
  • Favourite movie: Der Himmel über Berlin
  • Favourite band or musician: JS Bach, Herbie Hancock, Kraftwerk
  • Favourite artist: Alfons Mucha
  • Favourite poet or writer: Haruki Murakami
  • Favourite style of art: Modernism
  • Operating System: Linux 2.6.31-14, Ubuntu 9.10
  • Shell of choice: bash
  • Favourite cartoon character: Motoko Kusanagi
  • Tools of the Trade: Olympia SM9, JW Black Label

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:iconrexlupis:
Thanks for the visit, I do hope you found something of interest!

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"We are all greater artists than we realise." -Nietzsche
"What can be said, can be said clearly. What cannot be said must be passed over in silence." - Wittgenstein
:iconspartanxlll:
30 round mags? Tapco, Magpul, or HK....I kinda like them all :D what're your thoughts dear sir?

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"Only in darkness do we ever see light."
:iconbakelite:
HK is always good, but I don't own an AR of my own - you can probably get the same quality for a little less. Magpul sounds like a good choice too, and they're in a pretty comfortable price range. Plus they're totally in vogue right now. :D

Tapco would probably be fine too, their warranty is great. My friends have had a few Tapco mags with bad followers/etc, and they returned them no problem. So I suppose it's just a matter of which one you think looks best, haha.

I guess, if I had to choose one, I'd take Magpul, though they're all pretty closely matched.
:iconking-of-an-heroes:
So hey, thanks for the watch.

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"So ist das Leben - hart aber dafür gemein."
:iconbakelite:
No problem /b/ro. :thumbsup:

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