Intrepid Ibex – on it’s way indeed

So I know now that keeping a blog is a tiring bit of work really. If I finish something cool I want to get right on with the next cool thing, or it’s about time for me to head for the sack and I don’t want to chance a typo ridden post. But I must say I do enjoy this Community I’ve got myself strapped on to a

What an awesome month, even though I did almost miss a Hugday by mistake. I did learn something, I am indeed doing something useful it seems. With no announcement e-mail being sent out, there was Zero activity for the Hugday two weeks ago. With the e-mail being sent out the day of the Hugday, there was quite a considerable amount of contribution from names I’ve never seen before. Maybe the HugDay announcement should in-fact be sent out at the start of hugday rather than as a warning to it’s start? Something to chew on indeed.

In other news, today I ran update-manager -d on my main machine. Well it could have gone better, and I can probably fix the problems for myself, but I want to make sure reports are filed and all the needed info is submitted. Not too sure how to go about this task but I already filed a good dozen reports today it seems. Gnome exploded, Empathy is quirky, nv drivers are MIA, virtual consoles are virtually gone, and thank goodness for xfce being installed. I see we have some work over the next two months.

I hope I can get some more patchin’ in after classes start along with my new part time job, Linux Server Monkey at LSSU where I go to school.

Happiness on CD

Wow, I’ve never been happier to be part of the Ubuntu Community. Yesterday I was with my friend and fixing her mom’s coworker’s computer, a story common to any computer person. Her 10 year old daughter was watching my every click.

I put in an Ubuntu Live CD and booted it up, and first thing she said was “Cool”.

At the end of my fixing, on my way to the door, I handed her the Live CD. She gave me a big hug and excitedly ran back to her mom and began telling her all about FOSS and Ubuntu as I let myself out. The next day I was back to finish my work and low and behold what did I find? Ubuntu with flash installed and more games than I could shake a stick at.

I still have the smile on my face.