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which_chickI'm still playing with the laptop. Probably I should get a real hobby. New for today, I fixed the damn planets in Same GNOME. (They've got a Jupiter and a Saturn and I have trouble seeing the difference between them. I added better colors. Not pretty, exactly, but at least I can tell which ones are which. Then I couldn't see the damn things rotate on selection so I shaded the fuckers. Now they sort of shift from dark to light on select. Had to sudo to get the fucking file to copy, the concept of which is entirely new to me. (Sudo new to you? Didn't you do something *n*x back when you ran the ISP thing? Well, yeah, but I never used sudo before. Yes, I did admin several *n*x boxes for years on end... logged in as root. (Note to studio audience: This is WRONG AND EVIL and you will die horribly if you do it.) The worst thing that happened to me was that, early on in my experience, I deleted /dev/null (it's easy to put back) but ubuntu wants sudo, so I'll sudo. No worries.)
Anyway, the time-wasting game thing works in a way more pleasing to me now. It's not stellarly beautiful but that's mostly because my sense of design sucks. It is *functional* and I don't have to squint. Yay!
I still need to do something about the music problem -- all the music is on the other OS and the built-in player wants to me to open every single folder and add each one. That's not really very feasible. I need another way to do it. A better way...
Also, I appear to have misplaced my pictures from between *old laptop died* and *3-16-08* -- not sure how that happened. Perhaps I'm really stupid. (This is not a problem of ubuntu, it's a problem of me and my external drive. I think I clobbered the files with a click-n-drag copy.) Also, it's not a major problem, more of an annoyance.
Finally, ubuntu seems to be chewing on my hard drive more than is really necessary. I did some reading and this appears to be a known issue. I instituted the alleged appropriate workaround (setting it to not be using laptop-power-conservation crap regardless of power state) and I *think* that helped. The drive is not making the spin-up crunchie noise nearly as much. (It was doing it like every forty-five seconds or so, now it's about once every fifteen minutes.) Research continues -- speculation is that this is a BIOS issue, which is beyond my skill level. I dont USE my laptop on battery power so it shouldn't matter in terms of my use of the thing.
What? I don't use the battery? Well, no. Not very often, certainly. So why do I have a laptop? Because currently I am sideways on my couch with my legs stretched out flat in front of me, laptop perched on my fucking thighs. That's how I am when I am computing unless the laptop is set in front of me and I am sitting "criss cross applesauce" as the kids these days say. (When I was a sprout, it was "tailor seat" and in less-enlightened circles, it was "indian style".) Yes, I can sit like that for rather a long time. No, it does not hurt -- I'm just this surly all the time.
Anyway, these are not desktop-friendly postures. I am not a desktop user. I am a laptop user. The whole "you can take it places and make it run on batteries" thing is not particularly a feature I am wedded to. I'm more a fan of "one piece, lightweight, you can put it on your lap" as far as what I really want from the thing.
So. I'm still working on the "need a better music solution" thing and I am following along with the "ubuntu chews up laptop hard drives" issue because I'm not sure it's fixed yet. I also need a dummy-photo-editing program. I really liked irfanview, wonder if I can get that flying in WINE or something... do I have WINE installed? No. Can I install it? Yes. Did that. Got distracted -- lots of shiny going on here. I'll have to see what it looks like tomorrow.
Anyway, the time-wasting game thing works in a way more pleasing to me now. It's not stellarly beautiful but that's mostly because my sense of design sucks. It is *functional* and I don't have to squint. Yay!
I still need to do something about the music problem -- all the music is on the other OS and the built-in player wants to me to open every single folder and add each one. That's not really very feasible. I need another way to do it. A better way...
Also, I appear to have misplaced my pictures from between *old laptop died* and *3-16-08* -- not sure how that happened. Perhaps I'm really stupid. (This is not a problem of ubuntu, it's a problem of me and my external drive. I think I clobbered the files with a click-n-drag copy.) Also, it's not a major problem, more of an annoyance.
Finally, ubuntu seems to be chewing on my hard drive more than is really necessary. I did some reading and this appears to be a known issue. I instituted the alleged appropriate workaround (setting it to not be using laptop-power-conservation crap regardless of power state) and I *think* that helped. The drive is not making the spin-up crunchie noise nearly as much. (It was doing it like every forty-five seconds or so, now it's about once every fifteen minutes.) Research continues -- speculation is that this is a BIOS issue, which is beyond my skill level. I dont USE my laptop on battery power so it shouldn't matter in terms of my use of the thing.
What? I don't use the battery? Well, no. Not very often, certainly. So why do I have a laptop? Because currently I am sideways on my couch with my legs stretched out flat in front of me, laptop perched on my fucking thighs. That's how I am when I am computing unless the laptop is set in front of me and I am sitting "criss cross applesauce" as the kids these days say. (When I was a sprout, it was "tailor seat" and in less-enlightened circles, it was "indian style".) Yes, I can sit like that for rather a long time. No, it does not hurt -- I'm just this surly all the time.
Anyway, these are not desktop-friendly postures. I am not a desktop user. I am a laptop user. The whole "you can take it places and make it run on batteries" thing is not particularly a feature I am wedded to. I'm more a fan of "one piece, lightweight, you can put it on your lap" as far as what I really want from the thing.
So. I'm still working on the "need a better music solution" thing and I am following along with the "ubuntu chews up laptop hard drives" issue because I'm not sure it's fixed yet. I also need a dummy-photo-editing program. I really liked irfanview, wonder if I can get that flying in WINE or something... do I have WINE installed? No. Can I install it? Yes. Did that. Got distracted -- lots of shiny going on here. I'll have to see what it looks like tomorrow.
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Date: 2008-03-19 05:52 pm (UTC)I really want the Asus EEEPC. People should be selling them soon when they get to level up. However, it is shiny in a different way than a full-powered new laptop would be. Full-powered new laptop: pretty, might even be able to play Second Life (now there's a bad idea). Asus EEEPC: can wander around the house playing Internet radio over the Wifi, makes no noise, does not boot up and down so turns on as fast as a Palm. Graphics fu, not so much.
Whoops, got lost in the other tabs there (look! FreeBSD on the EEE!), posting comment now.