One problem I had with the change over to 9.10 was that when i started to edit a file, the highlighting of syntax was very bad and I could not see what was there. Yellow on a black background is not that god, so I started to switch over to white on black as my console colours. But I don’t like that. I prefers black on white.
So the next item on the upgrade list is to get sound and wine to work. Yes – I’m kind of addicted to EVE Online and i have to get that work.
In the old system I had pulseaudio to work. I really like that as it handles multiple input and outputs and you can even adjust volumes and individual applications. So its a really god system. In the old system (8.04) it worked very well, but tended to hang some times, and I had to kill the pulseaudion daemon and restart it from time to time.
So after my problems with the upgrade and that not all packages worked it was time to get the screen to work.
When upgrading i lost my accelerated nvidia driver, but that was kind of expected. So how to fix it?
So its time to take the plunge and upgrade. I will report what i found when i upgraded till Kubuntu 9.10 from my old 8.04 this week.
So what is a version fascist. Well they come in different flavors. First we have the package maintainer fascists. These are the presons that make computer packages for different distributions. And they specify the absolute latest version of everything, regardless of its needed or now. I have a problem with this as its hard to install stuff that way.
The open source is moving over to sell music also. Aparently there is work on getting a music store like itunes for ubuntu on its way. There you will be able to by mp3 files. Not correptes and locked down music files like some of the music on itunes.
parently its in beta test face acording ot ubuntu news.
A god project i think.
I have an external bluetooth mouse that I have been using for ages. Its a microsoft intelimous with a number of buttons and a mouse wheel.
And I realy love it – except fo one small thing. And its not realy the mouse problem, but the mouse driver in linux.
Yesturday is was out and moved my car as we have date parking and one are not alowed to have the car parked outside.
I also had to do some small shopping, so I went to the shoppingmall and bought what I was missing.
On my way out I thought about getting a gps navigator for the car. I want one for 1 reason – warnings for speed cameras.
So i have a few requirements:
And most points where not a big issue except the last one. None of the ones they had in the store works with linux.
And tomtom is the most interesting of them. The machine itself is running a linux system, and they have even released the os or atleast the kernel as open source, but to run the updating proram on linux – no way.
So for now its no luck for me to get one. I have to look more. 
I går var jag ute och flyttade på bilen (det är städdag/plogdag hos oss på tisdagar) och jag hade bilen parkerad lite bort där dom har städ/plogdag på onsdagar, så jag var tvungen att ge mej ut i kylan.
Jag hade också tänkt mej lite grillad kyckling till kvällen men den jag köpte hade datumen gått ut på så den fick jag slänga. Jag är ganska liberal med att tolka sista förbrukningsdatum utom när det gäller kyckling. Den kan man ju bli så dålig av. Så det blev en liten tripp till affären. Handlade lite grillat och på vägen ut tänkte jag att jag går förbi och kolla vilka navigatorer dom har på OnOff.
Jag vill ha en navigator av 1 anledning och det är att få varningar om fartkameror. Så givetvis ska den uppdatera detta, så mina önskemål är:
Och det flesta sakerna var inga problem utom detta lilla att jag vill köra linux. Ingen av navigatorerna fungerar med Linux.
Tomtom är extra interesant för maskinen i sig själv kör ett linuxsystem, dom har till och med publicera tos’et eller kerneln som open source, men att köra uppdaterings programmen på linux – inte.
Så för nu är det inte möjligt för mej att skaffa en verkar det som. Jag får väl leta mera.
Last week I got tired of typing passwords. Well what really was happening was that I decided to start using svn (or subversion) for all of our source code. And I like that fact that svn can work over ssh. So I set up our own archive on our main machine and started to fill it up. But using svn over ssh also means that you need to specify you password a number of times, and even more that once for a svn command.
