Hooray! Weird Al Yankovic has a new album coming out on Tuesday called Straight Outta Lynwood. So far from the two singles he has out are pretty good. I can’t wait to add this to my collection. You can watch the videos for White & Nerdy and Don’t Download This Song on YouTube. Glee!
Avast, me hearties! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Ye best be puttin’ on yer patches and yer best pirate voice or ye be walkin’ the plank! Here arrrr some links t’ get ye movin’ a’long.
Aye! And you can also view this very site using a piratey filter! Arrr!!
When I logged into my personal desktop, I was greeted with my Update Manager blinking in the panel. Updates! I was even more surprised to see that the upgrade to Dapper Drake 6.06 was available for my operating system. Awesome! I went ahead and marked the upgrade & let it go. It took about an hour to download the files and another 30 minutes to install but the upgrade itself was flawless…
… Except for one thing after I rebooted. After logging back in, my gnome-panel was totally hosed up. It was blank and unusable. I couldn’t right click to access a context menu or anything. I was able to right click the desktop and create a launcher for a terminal. Using that I tried to kill the process and restart it but no dice there. I started up Firefox to find a fix but didn’t have too much luck.
My fix so far was to go into a terminal and install the package for KDE (apt-get install kubuntu-desktop). After restarting X, logging in using KDE as my desktop manager was no problem at all. I’m still looking to see how to fix my defunct gnome-panel but KDE is kind of growing on me. Linux sure has come a long way since the days I was installing Slackware from almost 30 floppy diskettes. That sure was fun.
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