Mon, Nov 02, 2009
Followups -- Upgrades
Posted to Technology category
The upgrade to Windows 7 and switch to Avira as antivirus seems to have fixed the processor-hangs. Other than that, Windows 7 is extremely annoying: Micrisoft is doing their usual thing of making it as difficult as possible to get anything done unless you are using nothing but Microsoft software. Since I use as little Microsoft software as possible, this obviously leads to problems.
The clean upgrade to Kubuntu 9.10 seems to have fixed the video hangs. It has been up three days. It has been a long time since I went a full day without X windows going unresponsive on me and being forced to hard reboot. I may be rebooting soon to see if that will bring dns-masq online (I need to recheck the config files first: I may have missed one), but it will be a clean boot, with everything -- especially the vmware images -- shutdown properly beforehand instead of having to crash them. Even if I still get an occasional hang, the improvement is wonderful.
Reconfiguring my main KDE apps -- KMail and Konqueror -- to behave the way I like after the clearing the config has been a pain. But they are also behaving much better now in the clean KDE 4.x environment than they had been with the settings that had been through the migration from 3.x.
For a while I was worried because I was getting very bad networking bandwidth. But I think that was an aftereffect of some power glitches and outages during the big storm last week. Power-cycling both the DSL modem and the router seems to have fixed things.
I can't really reconfigure samba and try to see if the permissions problem is gone until I have dns-masq working, but at the moment I am very hopeful.
I have much of my working infrastructure back in place. The main piece that still needs to be reloaded (also after DNS is fully working) is the DB2 database that provides the ClearQuest backend.