Sat, Oct 24, 2009
Melon Float
Posted to Technology category
A new use for melon sorbet: 8 ounces of ginger ale (I used good stuff -- Canada Dry) and a couple of scoops of melon sorbet.
I spent half of today trying to trouble shoot the video crashes and lockups my laptop has been having. I think part ofthe problem is the transition from KDE 3.x to 4.x: I'm not sure the Ubuntu upgrade processes cleaned out the obsolete stuff thoroughly. I tried forcing a reinstall of all of the KDE components, but I'm not sure it did any good..
The official release of the next version of Kubuntu is due this week. I think I'm going to back-up this laptop completely and do a clean install next weekend, or as soon afterward as I can manage to download Kubuntu 9.10. Hopefully, that will fix both the video problems and the samba permissions problems I have also been chasing.
The samba problems may be related to a cluster of new samba config paramters called "idmap config". I'm looking for detailed documentation...