Under a Gibbous Moon

National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us, eight days to be exact. I have decided to participate this year and will talk about the experience from time to time. It should be interesting. I hope that having a dead line will prompt me to actually follow throw with the writing this time.

My NaNoWrMo profile can be found here.

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Ok, yes that was terrible.

I have recently updated to the beta version of Ubuntu 9.10, also known as Karmic Koala. Overall, I have been very happy with the latest upgrade. I can’t say that it boots up any faster, but there is a definite improvement in speed. On an even better note, this is the first version of Ubuntu that the sleep function actually… functions. Oddly the hibernate does not, but I have filed a bug report so maybe it will be fixed by Lucid Lynx ;)

The update from Jaunty Jackalope went mostly smoothly; oddly enough restart Firefox twice to get my settings to show up. Handbrake is broken for some reason, seems to be some error with GTK.

The wifi drive actually stable now and does not shut down randomly when running a lot of data through it. The volume settings are much simplified and actually work properly with my laptops hot keys. One really nice thing is the integration with Empathy into the GUI. Makes having an IM program much less intrusive.

The biggest disappoint I had was Ubuntu’s much vaunted leap to the cloud with Ubuntu One. In theory, it works seamlessly with Karmic Koala. After signing up for an account (2GB is free) and registering your computer; any files placed in a folder called Ubuntu One in the home directory will then be synchronized with the cloud. For me though, it did not work, the sync program claims all the files have been synched and the folders that I have placed in the Ubuntu One folder are there, but none of the actually files have been uploaded.

The newest version of Ubuntu is definitely a step forward for Canonical. With the 29 October release of the Karmic Koala hopefully some of the bugs mentioned about will have been worked out. Ubuntu One would be nice if it works but since it is a feature I didn’t have before, I can’t say that I am missing it now.

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Just got WordPress running and have been playing with it for a couple of days, trying to get a feel for it.

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