Got an piece of beta software that I’ve been waiting for for a while, but it required that I upgrade my Linux box from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. The upgrade seemed to work fine, but the kernel paniced when I rebooted. It booted on “Linux.OLD”, an older kernel, but my USB keyboard didn’t work and several other things weren’t working right. I re-ran “lilo” thinking it might get the proper kernel booted, but instead it removed “Linux.OLD” from the boot menu, and now I have no way to boot it. Downloading a Live CD right now.
Went flying for the first time in a long time. The plane is badly out of rig and with full left rudder trim, still required more left rudder to center the ball. I didn’t have any destination in mind, just flew around a bit to a couple of airports I rarely visit. My third landing wasn’t too bad.
Went with Vicki to buy her a kayak. She bought a Swift Saranac 14, which is a pretty good boat, and very popular. I hope she gets lots of use out of it.
Although the menu and other buttons on the new camera don’t work, I can still take pictures with it (just can’t change the ISO, or switch to shooting in RAW, or any number of other adjustments). First picture is here.
Doug says:
re ubuntu, i’m running both 7.10 and 8.04 (been using HH since beta) on different machines. i’ve been very happy with 8.04 but i have been unable to upgrade from GG to HH due to installed driver issues forcing an install vs upgrade. however, i am currently having a problem with one HH system with a kernel upgrade (to 2.6.22-15) causing a X server crash (due to some NVIDIA issue). i have grub fall back to the previous and it works fine. i’m very happy with HH in general except for this new NVIDIA problem which i have not looked into yet. i’ll probably re-install my other 2 systems to get to HH very soon.
July 5, 2008, 13:47 GMTre flying, weather is bad here this weekend (low vis and no IFR rating for me yet) so it’s more time on the computers (which is a lot cheaper).