Linux whut
I am beginning to fear that this linux install is going senile. It has outright /lost/ the contents of one directory (the desktop) and the entirety of another (/home/jon/bin). This hasn't happened /again/, mind, still just that one time last... Sunday or whenever. But still. I've heard various horror stories, third-hand, about various flavors of Windows mangling files or partitions, but /never/ been hit with it on on any of those platforms myself. Perhaps I was just lucky?
And now, on Wednesday, I boot the computer and suddenly there is no sound. Sound preferences applet doesn't even list the device in the hardware tab. Symptoms survive multiple reboots. Freak out, finally get an interim backup solution in place (I had a lovely homebrew solution using 7zip and batch files under XP, but have yet to find a Linux application and learn it thoroughly enough to get all the functionality that I want). So anyway, boot to WinXP partition last night, sound. Boot to Ubuntu 10.04.1 i386 LiveCD today, sound. Boot to Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 partition today, sound! WTF.
I am still, overall, happy with the Linux platform if for no other reason than the ludicrous profusion of excellent tools in the Ubuntu repositories. And http://windless.org/misc/transparent_terminals_are_love.png . However, it is not /all/ cherries and gumdrops on this side, either. >_>;
(I miss WinMerge, NotePad++, and frhed. The first two are, like, /the/ applications for graphical diff and lightweight source editing, respectively, on the Windows platform, and frhed is a wonderful, lightweight, and fast hex editor. None of the graphical differs that I've found under Linux are quite as easy to use, gedit doesn't have nearly as many features as NotePad++, and Okteta is a KDE project, need I say more.)
And now, on Wednesday, I boot the computer and suddenly there is no sound. Sound preferences applet doesn't even list the device in the hardware tab. Symptoms survive multiple reboots. Freak out, finally get an interim backup solution in place (I had a lovely homebrew solution using 7zip and batch files under XP, but have yet to find a Linux application and learn it thoroughly enough to get all the functionality that I want). So anyway, boot to WinXP partition last night, sound. Boot to Ubuntu 10.04.1 i386 LiveCD today, sound. Boot to Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 partition today, sound! WTF.
I am still, overall, happy with the Linux platform if for no other reason than the ludicrous profusion of excellent tools in the Ubuntu repositories. And http://windless.org/misc/transparent_terminals_are_love.png . However, it is not /all/ cherries and gumdrops on this side, either. >_>;
(I miss WinMerge, NotePad++, and frhed. The first two are, like, /the/ applications for graphical diff and lightweight source editing, respectively, on the Windows platform, and frhed is a wonderful, lightweight, and fast hex editor. None of the graphical differs that I've found under Linux are quite as easy to use, gedit doesn't have nearly as many features as NotePad++, and Okteta is a KDE project, need I say more.)