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I just re-installed Ubuntu 11.10 for the 3rd time, not b/c my previous install was busted, but b/c I wanted to shrink my Linux Mint install. However, I made the mistake of deleting the boot partition as well, and I couldn’t figure out how to re-install grub2 again. Meh, I don’t mind that much, but it sucks that it takes me about an hour to get my system configured correctly again.
Glad I only have to do this once every 6 months. Well, usually anyway. 
Came across this link on the Ubuntu forums for a number of cool app indicators to help make your desktop experience a bit better. In fact, those USB mounting/unmounting ones have convinced me to write my own (my needs are a bit more specific than what they offer).
Juries still out on this one (my feelings are very mixed atm), but for now, here are some quick tips that’ll hopefully smooth out your post-installation experience.
Received some new items in the mail today, chief among them being a new Bluetooth USB adapter for my comp! You know, I’ve never actually used Bluetooth before b/c I never needed to, but I’d like to give it a try now that I’m doing some Android development.
Gamera has always been the Sega Saturn to Godzilla's Playstation
Here’s something useful I found out today: a way to easily remove old entries from GRUB’s boot menu, ie. old kernel images that aren’t used any more.
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All I wanted to do was set up email notifications in the system tray, but I couldn’t get any of the programs I tried (Thunderbird, Evolution, Mail Notfication) to work w/ Yahoo. I tried changing my preferred region to one that provides free POP service, but still no luck.
Meh, screw it. I’ll stuck to Firefox and it’s add-ons.
Before, whenever I read about lightweight linux distributions (ie. so small that the OS can be run entirely out of a small amount of RAM), I’d always think to myself, “Why bother?” Considering how cheap computing has become, why not just keep upgrading, either incrementally or wholesale, instead of sticking w/ older hardware? Well, after thinking about it some more, I think better of it now.
I’ve never been a fan of upgrading for the sake of upgrading, and I also don’t think the OS requirements should render the hardware obsolete. Case in point: I’m currently typing this post on my “old” dell laptop that I bought around 2004/2005. The specs? A 1.6Ghz CPU, 1GB of RAM (upgraded from 256MB 
), and a 40gig HDD. These specs are pretty dated by today’s standards, but you know what? There’s nothing wrong w/ my laptop, and it still runs and works just fine.
So if I decide to continue using it, I might just switch over to a lightweight distro in the future, b/c running a modern, full-featured OS like Ubuntu 10.10 is already pushing it.
