well as the wireless router was seemingly broken and i was looking forward to an important email i decided to lug my desktop downstairs to unleash the raw power on the interwubz directly to my unsuspecting PC.
i had installed ubuntu months ago in an effort to experience me so berly/compiz/xgl goodness but restricted drivers were holding me back from doing anything (my wireless firmware was a ‘restricted driver’, thus effectively disabling the internet and everything related to it), so.. i turned on the computer however as i hadn’t changed the default grub entry i found myself looking at the oh-so well planned gnome desktop with an active interweb connection.
hastily grabbing updated sources, restricted drivers and 200+ updates everything was complete. now all i need to do is ‘fix’ the annoying as hell sudo (srsly, almost as bad as vistas UAC) and get a new TB drive and format it as Ext3 so i don’t need to manually mount it every boot to make my wallpaper display.
so… yay linux!
Lunix!
March 8, 2008 by peteski
