An End to Woes

So, just to follow up with my gripes about Ubuntu, it turns out that upgrading was the cause of my troubles. Doing a couple of clean installs (first to find corrupt libraries killing init within 3 seconds of boot, second to find I had installed x86 inadvertently, and the final one to get x86_64) got me to a working install, and I must say, it’s pretty good to be back out from under XP. Once I get the chance and funds, I’ll have to get me two copies of Windows 7, especially that 30$ student edition (baring any revelations that said copies are crippled in some way) so I have to reformat. I also learned how to ‘burn’ an iso to my usb disk (why yes, it is an actual tiny usb hd), which means I won’t have to burn another disc, hopefully forever. Which works out, since I had just run out of discs to burn (although it’s just smaller than your average DVD image: I’ll probably have to upgrade my drive to an actual flash dongle).

Also, I’m working on another software project. I’ll post details once it does something more than display pretty boxes in the wrong proportions.

Just so you know I’m not dead or anything.