blogubrious update and the story of my ubuntu

Well, it’s been a while and I feel like I should pop up a quick update. The past few months have been mind numbing to say the least, but now I can breathe (somewhat). Anyway, I was bored a couple of weeks ago and was tooling around with ubuntu and got the brilliant idea to install it. I figured a dual-boot setup would be nice so I could keep XP for games and such. Of course, and I should have learned my lesson the last time*, I was a little bit tipsy and it was getting late (file that as foreshadowing). It turns out that I should never ever be allowed to touch any type of partitioning software… ever. After screwing it up a few times I corrupted windows and am now 100% ubuntu (fiesty fawn 7.04). The good news is that I had broken down and bought an external hdd the night before so all important client files were backed up*.

Here is the new system. It’s a 3 year old Dell dimension 4600c (OEM everything with just 2G memory — nothing special) which runs okay. I usually just web browse on this machine anyway so it gets the job done, now it’s just a little bit sexier. This video is choppy, but the real system is incredibly smooth, even with dated hardware .

Info: Running Ubuntu feisty fawn 7.04 (Gnome 2.18) with Beryl as the window manager. I kept the effects to a minimum for the sake of sanity, I actually run fewer than this on a day-to-day basis, it was just for show that beryl doesn’t have to be completely over the top to look cool. The video in the background is Sid & Nancy.

Upcoming updates when I get around to it:

• Adding the sliding sidebars to this OSX theme. (I’ll have to hack through it again to see how exactly I did it..)
• Ubuntu hacks and cool tweaks
• More boring stories about stupid shit I do (maybe)

* A couple years ago I was in the same situation — a little buzzed and had a stupid idea to upgrade my OS. I was trying to install a fresh XP copy or something like that and figured since all client files were on a seperate hard drive how could I possibly fuck it up, right? Wrong. I ended up installing a wrong version of windows on the wrong hard drive, effectively wiping 1 year+ of client files (including a 100+ hour flash site. Ouch). Realizing something was wrong when I booted into the same OS I cried a little, ran data recovery and got 90% of the work back. Then I installed the wrong version of windows on the right hdd. THEN I finally got it right and cried myself to sleep. Lesson learned, or so I thought. At least this time I didn’t lose anything valuable (unless you consider windows xp valuable ).

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