This morning I discovered that the brightness control key now increments the level by 4 (of 8) units. So, instead of 8 levels, I now just have the equivalent of dark, medium and full brightness. WTF ( Read more... )

The screensaver decides to freeze randomly when unlocked. Incidentally, XKCD is also on Ubuntu's case now. Unfortunately, I don't want to recompile the kernel, even though my wi-fi has also been out for two weeks (see the alt text). Unfortunately, I also can't do anything about it anytime soon because my laptop is my dev- machine as well and there ( Read more... )

• Ubuntu Hardy Heron (LTS) is a step back for Linux-kind. It's broken. It sucks. It's given me hours of frustration and lost productivity, to the extent that I went to the Apple Store yesterday with real interest
• Debian packaging has to be the most brain-dead of the three package management systems I've worked with -- deb, rpm and Yahoo! internal ( Read more... )