Whoaboy, what a ride...
So, I got sick. And everyone else around here is battling things. There could probably be germ warfare developed in this house. Really, it's not cool.
And I discovered a major bug with the latest release of Ubuntu. It totally flipped my dvd drive out. Totem wouldn't go near it, and VLC was like something out of the exorcist when it tried. And I couldn't even tell if it was the hardware or if it was actually an upgrade issue, so at last resort, I reinstalled my laptop to it's factory settings. (Thank you, Dell, for at least having that option) My dvd drive worked wonderfully in that state. Unfortunately, factory settings are like caveman 1.0, and I really was in love with Lucid, so I tried to upgrade straight to that by editing the filesource folder and pulling the upgrade. (Hey, this came suggested to me by a good friend who knows Linux extremely well. I wasn't just making stuff up.) Should have worked fine. Except an error got returned while unpacking up the upgrade and it completely aborted. And now can't boot because it seems to be confused as all hell.
Like I said, we're all sick here, and that includes Steve, so hopefully he won't mind me being on his computer all day while I try to get this resolved. I could just do the system restore again, but then I'd be stuck doing all the upgrades through upgrade manager, and since I've got a few distros to go through, it will be a pain. I need to do some research on the forums though, and my head still hurts from combing them trying to find a solution to the dvd problem. I actually woke up with an eyestrain headache in the middle of the night.
I think I've gotten about 10 hours sleep total this week. It's bad. I'm having a serious problem with inappropriate laughter right now. Things that are really not supposed to be funny are cracking me up. Like my child choking on a poptart. That bad. So let's just hope I don't get any bad news today...
And I discovered a major bug with the latest release of Ubuntu. It totally flipped my dvd drive out. Totem wouldn't go near it, and VLC was like something out of the exorcist when it tried. And I couldn't even tell if it was the hardware or if it was actually an upgrade issue, so at last resort, I reinstalled my laptop to it's factory settings. (Thank you, Dell, for at least having that option) My dvd drive worked wonderfully in that state. Unfortunately, factory settings are like caveman 1.0, and I really was in love with Lucid, so I tried to upgrade straight to that by editing the filesource folder and pulling the upgrade. (Hey, this came suggested to me by a good friend who knows Linux extremely well. I wasn't just making stuff up.) Should have worked fine. Except an error got returned while unpacking up the upgrade and it completely aborted. And now can't boot because it seems to be confused as all hell.
Like I said, we're all sick here, and that includes Steve, so hopefully he won't mind me being on his computer all day while I try to get this resolved. I could just do the system restore again, but then I'd be stuck doing all the upgrades through upgrade manager, and since I've got a few distros to go through, it will be a pain. I need to do some research on the forums though, and my head still hurts from combing them trying to find a solution to the dvd problem. I actually woke up with an eyestrain headache in the middle of the night.
I think I've gotten about 10 hours sleep total this week. It's bad. I'm having a serious problem with inappropriate laughter right now. Things that are really not supposed to be funny are cracking me up. Like my child choking on a poptart. That bad. So let's just hope I don't get any bad news today...