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“65 minutes is the delivery time”

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

What kinda numbnuts are running Pizza Hut? I want to eat pizza like now, not at 1.18pm, estimated delivery time.

In recent times I’ve caught Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and on the United plane ride, Nanny McPhee, and Prime. I can recommend them all if you had nothing better to do with your time (i.e. laptop battery is dead, you can’t sleep because the chick next to you is lying on your shoulder with her mouth open, breathing out progressively smellier air, etc.).

So, it seems some collaborative notes from the recent SDForum Ruby on Rails thing is online. That should be useful, because I must admit, RoR is quite easy to get into.

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Ubuntu 5.10 on the IBM Thinkpad R51

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

On another partition, I popped Ubuntu 5.10 on the Thinkpad R51. I figured I need to eat some of my own dogfood, and give it more use. Here are some notes:

  • Installation went smoothly, installing side-by-side with FreeBSD. It however, didn’t write to GRUB that FreeBSD actually exists, and use that as an option for booting. It also, didn’t give me an option (or I missed it?) to say if I didn’t want it to install the bootloader. Anyways, in /boot/grub/menu.lst, add:

title FreeBSD
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /boot/loader

  • My WiFi (ipw2100) actually just works. Ubuntu includes the firmware it’d seem, which explains why RMS doesn’t think Ubuntu is free software.
  • 96.9MB of updates were waiting for me the moment I logged into GNOME. The kernel update broke around 50%, but I was amazed to see it resume the download from there. Is this some dpkg/apt cleverness that we could use in rpm/yum?
  • I tried to install something (gforge-*), and apt barfed. I presume this is how people mentioned RPM hell and what not… There exists APT hell too, folk.

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