I think I’ve about had it with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It’s a sad day when my windows box is more stable than my linux laptop. I also made the mistake of upgrading my work machine from Gutsy Gibbon to HH last week and I’ve been regretting it ever since. Three times today alone I had Nautilus crash on me without the ability to restart it. When I’d kill the existing Nautilus process a new one would start automatically and crash until I rebooted the box. Reboots like that are unacceptable to me on a linux machine.

I’ve been playing with Ubuntu since the Warty Warthog days and this is the first upgrade that has not been a significant improvement. That makes me want to not give up on Ubuntu completely and instead downgrade back to Gutsy until the issues get worked out. Then there’s the bandwagon part of me that wants to jump on the the PCLINUXOS bandwagon.

Tomorrow after work I’m going to install PCLINUXOS on my home laptop and if things go well I’ll consider putting it on my work machine too. PCLOS has it’s .roots in Mandrake… aka Redhat, but it’s a full fledge distro in its own right now and it uses APT. I can work with anything so long as I have APT.

Thanks to Hayden Simons for the photo

It’s looking a little different over here at web 4.0 beta. I upgraded to the latest version of wordpress this morning and I decided to change the theme. The old one was custom build by me and never really got finished, so rather than bring it over to the new install I let it fade into the ether. This is a clean and simple theme that will be easy to customize when I’m slightly better equipped and motivated.

I promised a new blog skin back on my very first post and now I have delivered. There are a few things left to do but it’s done enough for me to make it live to the world. Here are a few of the notable features of this wordpress theme:

• spifyness
• tabs (very web 4.0)
• the “Previous Post” and “Next Post’ images below use overlib to display the title of and an excerpt from the post they link to.
• A brain too fried to come up with anything clever.

There’s still some work to do regarding the display of archives and categories but all that can wait. I don’t have enough posts to really make it a hardship.

Until next time. Over and out.