[PLUG] Announcement: Linux Clinic this Saturday

[John Jordan]

On 15 Oct 2005, at 22:11, Jason R. Martin wrote:

> Maybe this is a dumb question, but why do you need Adobe Acrobat? Have
> you tried using something like Evince?

Lots of things the Linux PDF readers can't do. Plus, I need to 
prepare files for print -- where a tiny mistake can be extremely 
expensive.

> Sorry, don't know anything about Ubuntu 64 (installed it once, that's
> it).

As it turns out, I decided to install the recently released Ubuntu 
Breezy (5.10). It's progressing as I write this. Considering all the 
error messages and gigabytes of files it is changing, if the 
computer boots afterwards I may have to become a deist, because 
it will surely be a miracle.

It's been downloading and installing for the past couple hours, with 
another hour or so to go. I'm steeling myself for the surely 
inevitable need to wipe the hard disk and start over again from 
scratch. That means a week getting the wifi working again, 
because my only notes are in a Firefox bookmark. Well, maybe I 
can find the instructions again with google and maybe I can 
remember which part of them were incorrect that it took me a week 
to figure out.

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Yup. It's broken.

It actually booted, and it said Breezy 5.10, but X did not come up. I 
tried "startx", but it errored out "connexion refused (errno 111) 
unable to connect to xserver." I also tried it with sudo, but got the 
same results. Since I have no idea where to start to fix X, I'll have 
to start over. There go all my configurations. 

Well, at least I won't have to become a deist.