Xubuntu conquered
Jul. 16th, 2010 11:19 pmIn spite of efforts by the Ubuntu team to confuscate and hide stuff, I managed to get what I wanted working. They have castrated gdm so I installed kdm instead. It seems to have escaped the knife so far. Further tweaking in the Xaccess and xdmcp configurations got most of what I need working.
Got home from dinner out with Gary to find that Sarah had chewed a hole in her dressing and was licking at the stitches. I couldn't tell if she had actually popped any of them or not, but fortunately I had the right stuff (vetwrap, non-stick gauze, tape) to recover and rewrap it. Now she'll have to go back to the clinic tomorrow to have it looked at, though possibly the techs can take care of it. Tomorrow is my all day commitment to demo spinning and weaving over in Lake County, which doesn't help. Fortunately I don't have to be there until 10.
I see storm clouds on the horizon at work, much as I had feared. There's a battle coming over Windows ("it's what people are used to") and Linux. I'm going to tell the new boss that I don't do Windows. Period. If she wants to dump all my work and go back to Windows (at twice what Linux is costing us) then she'll have to get someone else to do it. In a way, it would be a relief to get rid of the responsibility for all this BS anyway. Unfortunately this has strong echoes of what happened before I left the college environment eight years ago.
Got home from dinner out with Gary to find that Sarah had chewed a hole in her dressing and was licking at the stitches. I couldn't tell if she had actually popped any of them or not, but fortunately I had the right stuff (vetwrap, non-stick gauze, tape) to recover and rewrap it. Now she'll have to go back to the clinic tomorrow to have it looked at, though possibly the techs can take care of it. Tomorrow is my all day commitment to demo spinning and weaving over in Lake County, which doesn't help. Fortunately I don't have to be there until 10.
I see storm clouds on the horizon at work, much as I had feared. There's a battle coming over Windows ("it's what people are used to") and Linux. I'm going to tell the new boss that I don't do Windows. Period. If she wants to dump all my work and go back to Windows (at twice what Linux is costing us) then she'll have to get someone else to do it. In a way, it would be a relief to get rid of the responsibility for all this BS anyway. Unfortunately this has strong echoes of what happened before I left the college environment eight years ago.