kubuntu is upgraded, and I can't find anything different.  Newer KDE, so there's a few small differences there, but apart from that, nothing much.  ho hum.

Upgrade took far too long though.  I eventually stopped being stubborn and used their upgrader thingy.   40 minutes of downloading updates, that's not too bad (only got 2meg broadband, grr).  But configuring everything?  2 and a half hours in the end!  Blatent lies from the upgrader, which claimed it was going to take an hour and five.  hmm.  A full install takes less time than that...

On a slight sidenote, I wonder if I'll ever figure out what it is that I have against Linux for Dummies.  er, I mean ubuntu.  hmm. 

But yes, feisty.  meh.  Something appeared in my system tray to tell me that my ethernet cable is plugged in.  Oh really, how very useful   For wifi maybe, but I don't use that so I've told it to go away.  Not quite as bad as the random thing on my computer at work that occasionally pops up to tell me that there are no problems with the network though.

Upgrading overwrote various config files (well ok, I told it to) so I've been reconfiguring apache today.  And whilst I was redoing subdomains and blocking all non-local traffic I thought I may as well change a few other settings that I've been meaning to do for months and have never got round to.  Like telling it to run as my user rather than as www-data so I don't have to chmod/chown/chgrp things every time I want to resize a batch of images for my photo gallery. ha.

Other things I have been putting off for months - printing photos to frame and decorate the flat with.  Oh, what fun that was...  My printer works fine under linux, but before now I've never actually tried printing anything that wasn't just text.  Now thinking there was good reason for this.

Resize/retouch images in the gimp, then discover that gimp won't print directly so open the image with a different program just to print it.. which worked, but it came out the wrong size (despite me telling it what size to print at) and that meant weird stretching and chopping off of heads.  Then figured out that the gimp will actually print if you do enough kicking and prodding.  But still it's not printing the entire image, and the colours are terrible and the whole things is pants quality.

Grr.  It's not like I have a shitty printer either - got a HP deskjet thingy that's actually quite good at doing nice quality photos.  If it's set up correctly.

Then I remembered seeing somewhere that feisty has a new HP printer toolbox thing.  Found that, fiddled some settings and cleaned my print heads, and woooo, it works!  

tags: linux