Dad: I need a favor from you and you’re not going to like it

Me: I’m not going to like it?

Dad: Your Uncle is here with his computer running Vista–

Me: You’re right, I’m not going to like it.

Dad: I’ve been on this stupid thing for hours and I can get it to connect to the wireless!

Me: I don’t support Vista, you know that.

Dad: Will you just look on one of your technical sites and find some answer?

Me: <quickly google “remove wireless network vista“>

Dad: Why did they have to move everything around?  XP worked just fine and now they moved things and changed things I can’t even find what I’m trying to do!

Me: I’m upset that you woke me up, but I’m loving how much you’re hating Vista.

Dad: It’s a peice of crap!

Me: <giving instructions based on google search results>

Dad: Thank you.

I just thought I’d share that quick story with everyone.  And here I spent months trying to convince them to switch to Linux.  I guess all I needed to do was give him a copy of Vista for the morning.  Mr. Ballmer, sir, you’re doing a fantastic job.  Keep up the good work!

Way to be famous man.  Keep up the AWESOME work.

“You have discovered that bad people always have a bad effect, and good people a good effect, upon their nearest neighbors;” – Plato, The Last Days of Socrates.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

sudo aptitude install sl

Next time you fat finger your directory listing of “ls” you’ll get a nice little surprise.

(Check out the man page too, its configurable.)

I think this wins the official “This developer has too much free time” award.

Start OpenOffice Spreadsheet (Applications > Office > OpenOffice Spreadsheet)

Within an empty field, type: =GAME("StarWars")

Enjoy

This evening I went out to dinner with _MMA_ from the Ubuntu Studio crew.  One nice thing about my traveling job is that I get to meet Ubuntu community members from around the country.  I generally like to take them out to dinner and we can catch up in-real-life.  I’ve actually been out here to Raleigh quite a bit lately so _MMA_ and I have spent more than a few nights out gorging ourselves on steak and BBQ!

Tonight we went out to Longhorn Steakhouse and brought the family.  _MMA_, his wife and his two kids.  Quite the event and we were ready to eat!  So, the waitress came around and took our orders.  Never in my life did I know ordering steak could be so complicated!

Question after question after question.  How would you like it cooked? Options are… What kind of salad? We have…  What kind of dressing? We offer…  What sides? The sides are…  On and on she went.  I didn’t know ordering food was that hard!

As soon as she was done I turned to _MMA_ and said:

“I’d like to preseed my order please!”

After running .iso tests the last two days that’s the first thing that came to my mind!  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could preseed (pre-answer) things like this!  _MMA_ thought it was hilarious so we figured we should blog about it.

In any event, we’ll now take you back to your regularly scheduled programming.  Ubuntu release is imminent!

Upgrading via Update Manager

Step 1: It is suggested that you make sure your BIOS is up-to-date before you try such an upgrade.  This is based on some changes in the latest kernel releases which can conflict with older BIOS firmware.

Step 2: You’ll need to make sure that the dapper-updates software channel is activated.  (See my previous post linked above for an example of which repositories can/should be enabled.)

Step 3: Press Alt-F2 and type gksu "update-manager"

Step 4: Click the Check button to check for new updates.

Step 5: A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release.

Step 6: Click Upgrade

Step 7: Follow the instructions as the Update Manager utility will walk you through each step of the upgrade.  You will still have a chance to back out after clicking Upgrade if you feel you’re not yet ready.

For more information and other information from the Wiki see: Upgrade Notes

In any event, if you’re a twitter user drop by at https://twitter.com/zelut and join the ‘ol network.

…Thanks a lot bordy!

Well, I ran into something yesterday that I haven’t been able to solve with aptitude. Is it possible to pull down the source code from the deb-src repository via aptitude and not apt-get source?

I’d sure appreciate if anyone can tell me a way.

…”*Linux is a registered trademark of Linux Torvalds”

Linux Torvalds?  I have so many directions I could go with this, but I think I’ll just leave it up to your imaginations.