I love the Ubuntu community! Last night, I had one reply to my plea for Ã¥ with a suggestion, but it didn’t work (though the guy is both a Linux and aquarium enthusiast, so I made him a contact). Another this morning said he probably couldn’t help, but asked for information to try. Third time […]

Well, I wanted something to do, and I got Compose key woes. /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose That’s for when I forget the location of the list. All of the letters I need are there in the list, but not all of them work. I don’t know why. I should’ve checked this on the weekend when I actually had […]

Since I had nothing to do, I pissed around on YouTube for a while. Found some old commercials from the 70s and 80s that I remembered (I still want the “right” Zoodles commercial, and the Caramilk one with the devil…”I’m willing to pay…anything!”), and also found this. I’d forgot all about it except for occasionally […]

I didn’t go with P. today because it was cloudy, windy and nowhere near warm enough for any but the bravest bugs to be out. Instead, I decided to take a nap, with the plan to be well-rested before tackling the installation and manual configuration of the dreaded Samba on my brand new Hardy install. […]