I really hate how whenever they need to interrupt programming for a news break or weather warning they always wait until the commercials are over. God forbid they lose out on their advertising revenue to, I don’t know, possibly save lives. This happened while I was watching House tonight. It really drives me nuts when they interrupt TV shows that I actually watch, and look forward to, for the warnings. I get it, if there is something bad happening, by all means, interrupt. In return they should either suspend the program and pick it up where it left off or they should start breaking in during the commercials too.
I knew I couldn’t stay away for long. It was only a matter of time before I came back to you. What am I talking about? Ubuntu on my laptop. After spending a couple weeks back on WIndows XP on my laptop I had to switch back. I put XP on the laptop for work reasons, but now I don’t care. I want an OS that I like and that runs well on this laptop. That would be Ubuntu. Not only am I running Ubuntu, but I’m running the beta of their October release Gutsy Gibbon. I had a few troubles with screen resolution, but I think I have that all figured out now. Enabling the wireless this time was easy. All I had to do was click the use restricted driver button for my wireless card and it downloaded the driver and firmware and I have wireless on my Broadcom card with no problem. The one downside to getting back on Linux is the one wireless access point at work is far enough away to give me a really low signal (2mbps most times on Windows XP), but that was good enough for when the computer needed to be used by a student. Linux refuses to connect to that access point and I’m guessing it’s because the signal is too weak. I have no trouble connecting to other wireless networks when I pick them up.