l33tminion | Lynx, Sharks, and Lulz

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Some annoying warning output to console on running Emacs has been fixed, unfortunately that's been replaced by a similar but more annoying bug.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.

Lynx, Sharks, and Lulz

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