San Francisco

In case anyone was feeling left out for not going to SF, it's not that nice over here ;) This is the Golden Gate Bridge. Can't you see it in the background?

psp

the web browser is handy in countries with widespread free wireless. text input is rather fiddly though

US emulates UK

The US has only taken 5 years to catch up with the UK:
Couple harrassed after being incorrectly identified

Paediatrician's house daubed

ubuntu breezy colony 3

okay, so it appears that ubuntu is slightly better. The LVM setup isn't entirely obvious, but I managed it without having done it before, so it can't be that hard. Everything else was rather boring. It didn't seem to be overly happy with the network card, but it was working, just the installer didn't think so.

One daft thing though. When I logged in, I got a popup saying "updates available. Click the update item to continue, yadda yadda". What's the update item? Did it mean click the popup? or click the icon? I clicked the icon, and the popup stayed there. But that's relatively minor compared to the uselessness of solaris.

Solaris Express x86

So, I decide to play, having read articles about how solaris is an up and coming
competitor to linux etc.

I understand that the Express version of Solaris is the beta or whatever, so I'm not expecting the thing to be perfect, but so far, it's batting pretty much 0 for everything. It managed to get X working, with the same caveats as linux (probably because it's using the same X drivers), but I have no network connectivity (broadcom 5771 or something, netXtreme gigabit). It doesn't tell me this though, it just sits there doing something. I have no sound card. And once it's all installed I'm seeing seg faults from fc-cache, and I can't login to Gnome (fixed by killing ming.ttf in the chinese locale, I can't see myself missing that).

All in all, a waste of a period of time. I'll try ubuntu colony-3 breezy instead. Maybe that will work a bit better. (Oh, and the laptop is an IBM T43p)

Update: According to ubuntu, the network card is a 5751M or 5750 or something.

Coit Tower

Standard San Francisco Fog

We need a new coffee machine at home

Crookedest St

Fun things to do

if you like folding and glueing paper that is.

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