Lynx, Sharks, and Lulz

[l33tminion]

Last night, I tried to upgrade my computer to Lucid Lynx, the latest release of Ubuntu. I should have burned a CD of that first, the upgrade failed in a bad way. Even the error message had error messages. I opened a terminal to try to fix things, wouldn't open. Switched to a text terminal, couldn't login. Couldn't shut down. Hard rebooted my computer and wouldn't boot ("sh: out of space" and hostname segfaulting). So this morning dropped into SIPB, burned a new CD, and did a fresh install (keeping my home directory partition untouched). Install went smoothly (though it took a while), and now I'm back to my previous working-ness (except for Japanese language input, which took a little bit of finagling last time and probably will again).

So, upgrade problems aside (which I suspect are actually delayed problems from my last upgrade), Lucid is great. Faster, more beautiful, better selection for some of the defaults, better integration of social media, a bunch of bugs fixed. Still ran into a few bugs, which I'll list here:

• Some annoying warning output to console on running Emacs has been fixed, unfortunately that's been replaced by a similar but more annoying bug.
• Ubuntu Firefox Modifications + Tab Mix Plus still equals badness, but that seems to be fixed in the latest dev build of Tab Mix Plus.
• The SCIM icon not appearing in taskbar at startup is still a problem.
• Problem with power-manager on login.
• Flash plugin still has issues on 64-bit, but fixed that by installing the native 64-bit plugin.

Today, I'm at ROFLCon, which has been both interesting and funny. The before-party at the Asgard yesterday was pretty good, too, with the exception of having drinks spilled on me three times, all by staff. My backpack still smells like hard cider.