My mouse pointer is freezing every few seconds.
I closed all apps, the CPU is not active, and I didn’t do anything that I know of to trigger this, but it’s still happening. Great.
~> man grub
No manual entry for grub
Oh, FFS, FSF.
If you set a USB audio device as the default in OS X, unplug it, and replug it, it will become the default again.
If you set a USB audio device as the default (the “fallback”) in Ubuntu, unplug it, and replug it, your settings have been forgotten.
So Karmic comes with this new Disk Utility called Palimpsest. It lets you manage disks and partitions, warns you if a disk is failing (finally!), etc.
So I tried using it to delete a partition on a USB flash drive and recreate it. Just a FAT32 partition; shouldn’t be too difficult.
After it’s done creating and formatting the partition, it displays it as “4.1 GB Unrecognized”. I go into GParted and the partition is “Unknown”. Smooth.
Video chat is supposed to be available in both Pidgin and Empathy, but it doesn’t work in either of them.
In Windows, I can upgrade to Firefox 3.5 (the single piece of software that I use more frequently than any other) or Thunderbird 3.0 the day they are published.
In Ubuntu, I get to wait 4 or 5 months for it to trickle down with the next release.
(Of course, you should never upgrade on the day of an Ubuntu release. How naïve! You have to wait at least a few more months until they iron some of the bugs out. (But not all of the bugs. Those will have to wait until the next release…))
Both of my Ubuntu computers have locked up with unresponsive black screens in the past few days. Thanks to the latest 2.6.31-20 kernel, or just more of the same old random failures?
I like how old kernels are never removed when you update them, leaving lots of options that nobody uses in the GRUB menu and hundreds of MB of hard disk wasted. It should offer to remove older kernels after you’ve been using the new one successfully for a few weeks/months.
Sometimes I’ll move the mouse pointer with the touchpad, and when I stop moving, the mouse keeps going in the same direction, resulting in my clicking the wrong thing.
So today, I turn on my computer. It shows the GRUB boot menu, as usual. I let it automatically choose the first of several cryptic options, as usual. It shows an Ubuntu logo, as usual. After a minute or two, the Ubuntu logo disappears and, instead of the Gnome Desktop Manager, a console login prompt appears. No errors, no indication that anything is even wrong.
I turn off the machine and try again, with the same result. I turn off the machine and try again with a different kernel, with the same result. To my knowledge, I have not changed anything that would cause this.
So I’m in Windows XP. What do you know? It boots with absolutely no problems, as it always has. Of course, all the stuff I’ve been working on exists only on my Linux EXT3 partition, which Windows can’t open. (No, Ext2IFS does not work, and I don’t trust it, anyway.)
“But Mi¢ro$oft Windoze is so buggy and unreliable! OMG BSOD LOL! You should switch to Linux, it’s sooo much more stable and reliable than that Bill Gate$ shit. Did I mention Linux is freeeeeeeeeeeee?”
Fuck you. Seriously.
And why the hell did they change all the program names in Karmic? Instead of “Text Editor”, it’s “gedit”. Instead of “Gnome Partition Manager”, it’s “GParted”.
Is this part of some campaign to make things more difficult to find?