Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron review

Okay, as i mentioned earlier, I installed the new version of Ubuntu Linux, named Hardy Heron. I have been using this on my main desktop for a while, now, so I thought I might give it a review.

Given one sentence to describe it, I would say: “Stay Away.”

Having used Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon for a long time, and having seen reviews and articles about various other versions, I have come to the conclusion that this is the worst Ubuntu version to come out. Basically, just looking at it, there is no visible difference, except a slightly different wallpaper. My first point of contention was the graphics. It was a PAIN to get my Nvidia graphics card installed, I had to manually download and install the driver. In addition, the Screens And Grahpics manager that I had gotten so fond of no longer exists. I have yet to find a GUI that lets you manage your graphics cards and monitors. There is one simple window in which you can change your screen resolution and refresh rate, but that is all. To change my graphics properties, I have to boot into Recovery Mode. However, Recovery mode has been improved. When booting into it, a blue screen comes up with three options: Boot into normal mode, repair graphics, and boot into command line. This is a big bonus, whenever I had to repair the graphics via Recovery Mode in Gutsy, it was a PAIN, with my limited UNIX knowledge. However, as I mentioned earlier, I got Windows and Hardy Heron running simultaneously. However, this might also be possible on Gutsy, I do not know. Also, I have had some compatibility issues. VMware got trashed, and FF3b5 crashes more often. Also, that is another bone of contention. They installed a beta version of a browser in a full public release of the OS. No offense to them, but that is a …dumb… idea.

Other than that, I have not had any major problems, at least that I can think of. If you are a normal home user, looking for a more stable OS than Windows, you would not have a problem. However, for the more hardcore users, I would suggest you stick to Gutsy 7.10

Here is a link to Ubuntu, if you are interested in it, and do not yet use it (if that is possible).

A few things to note.

The Weekly Funnies have been terminated due to lack of intrest.  All monthly articles have been neglected as of late.  I am fairly new to blogging, and I am not used to have to post regular articles, please bear with me.  I will try to post interesting stuff as it occurs, but for now, I cannot do the monthly articles, I think I tried to do too much, to soon.  I will try to ease into the life of a blogger, at a somewhat slower pace.  I have deleted the Pages “Family News” and “Prayer Requests”  Due to lack of intrest, relevance, and updating.  I have kept the Church Events page, and I am thinking about how to continue to post family-related posts.  I have added some items to my blogroll, including some Ubuntu rescouces.  As my sister has left, I will return to posting more regularly.

Welcome to the new blog!

Well, okay, same blog. Just different URL/host.  I have imported all of my other posts onto this blog, obviously.  I also have made a title picture for my blog.  Yes, I realize that the title and description of the page are above it, and that does not look good, but I will fix it.  You like my new URL?  I thought that I should change it to something more geek/nerd related, as that is what my blog is about.  I got it off of Stargate Atlantis, from this one episode where you see Dr. McKay wearing a shirt saying “I’m with genius,” and an arrow pointing up.  I thought it was funny.  Plus, everyone knows that I am just as smart as McKay is!  haha.  My other favorite McKay quote was “Carter: ‘Go suck on a lemon!’”  (he’s deathly allergic to lemons).  Well, I guess I can’t just stop to change blogs, and take a week off of posting, so I will try to keep posting posts that do not have to do with the new blog.

On that note, I have had a wonderful day  today, especially considering that it is the last day before Spring Break.  The weather was the best I have seen all year, I got %100 on my math today, and finished my school a hour and a half early.  The girls are having a sleepover/private party (they are not sharing the candy :P) with someof their friends, while we are left to watch movies all by ourselves.  *sniff.* kinda makes you feel lonely, doesn’t it? No? oh, well.

Bad times, Good times.

Last weekend, Aunt Marion and Uncle Doug from Maryland stopped by for several days on their way to their yearly vacation to Florida. Also, last weekend, Mom and Dad went on a two-day vacation to… who knows where. Jeremy and Annemarie family-sitted for them while they were gone. They left early this morning. Unfortunately, our family appears to be having the flu. Tessa has definitely had it, she even took the test, and came out positive. We think that Dad and Mom have it, and I might have it. We hope that we have not given it to Aunt Marion and Uncle Doug. That is why I have not written anything on here as of late. Nor do I expect to write much more until I am feeling better, which hopefully could be tomorrow, but could be a few more days. I generally get over sicknesses rather quickly.

Oh, and My computer is apparently named Thor. Thanks to all of the… two… people that voted.

Christmas 2007 at the Edwards

Well, Christmas is over.  And what a Christmas it was!  This will most likely go down in history as one of the best Christmases that I have ever had, and ever will have.  Both Sergei and Zhenya showed up for the present-opening, and for Christmas lunch.  also in attendance throught Christmas were Jeremy and Annemarie Morgan, who spend much more time at our house than they do at their own.  Also, Corey and Johnny Locke were there. and all four of those just mentioned got their own presents.  Corey got $50-$60 total in three Gamestop cards from different people, and John got two Gamestop cards, and Top Spin 2 for Xbox 360 ( he loves Xbox tennis). and they do not even live at our house.  Jeremy and Annemarie both got several presents from several people. I got to Cds, and a 256 MB card of RAM for my computer. that is not much, but they are all expensive.  My computer now runs much better.  The CDs that I got were one by As I Lay Dying, and Decyfer Down, both of which I absolutely love.  On the night before Christmas Eve (we opened our presents on Christmas Eve), we had a power outage for at least an hour, which was very interesting, as everyone was watching a movie or playing a video game.  We had a nice short Christmas sermon at church on Monday.  The Present-Opening ceremony… uh… havoc, will be one that will be remembered by all of the attendees, for most of their life, as the loudest, most happy Christmas ever!

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Trey’s Writing for 12-3-2007
Journal Entry
“My Fifteenth Birthday”
Well, I am fifteen now. Wow. Scary thought, isn’t it? Well, I had a very fun birthday/birthday party. In fact, it was probably one of the best of my life. We celebrated ot a lunch, and I got a bit more presents than usual. Jeremy, Annemarie, John, and Corey all came over, and Z was planning on it, but he did not wake up until three o’clock. In all, I got three movies, namely, Santa Claus 3, Man From Earth, and Rudy, which, according to popular rumor, is a rather good movie. I got a total of $33, not counting a $15 Amazon gift certificate that has not arrived yet. I got four rechargeable AAA batteries, an OU sweater and matching cap, a bunch of Tootsie Rolls (uh… yeah.), a bottle of Ranch Dressing (no, really), and a couple of other things that I cannot think of right now because my brain is dead, but I will still die if someone realizes that I forgot their present. Also, and this is a biggie, Dad gave us all ten seasons of Stargate SG-1 as an advanced Christmas present. We played video games without having to use time on both Friday and Saturday, and Oklahoma beat the number one ranked team in the nation on Saturday, 38-17. On Sunday, we had a Christmas Singing… thing that was a lot of fun, except I only existed during half of it. Overall, I would say that I had a fairly good birthday, dont’cha think? I just cannot wait to star driving, and get a job, even though Dad will not let me take the test until I am fifteen and a half, so he does not have to train me for an entire year. It is hard to think that I am actually fifteen, the age that I have wanted to be for several years. But I have to finish this day’s writing pretty quick, I cannot afford to be late on my school, if we are to achieve our all-important goal of finishing all seasons of Stargate SG-1 by the end of the year.

Last Weekend

Last Saturday, I went Paintballing for the first time in my life. It was really fun. It did not hurt that much, except for the very last time I got hit, because the cheap paintball hardly exploded. I have five marks on me. we were at church the next day, all of us talking about Saturday (I had gone with the church youth group). We were all saying how many times we had gotten hit, and how, hard, and we were kinda seeing who had gotten the worst bruised. It was going good, until one girl came in, who had been shot in the leg by her brother during one of the games. she had a mark about (literally) 2 in. wide, with different colored rings all around it. We kinda shut up after that, since no one could come close to that. ow. Apparently, the owner, who is a Christian, likes big family’s, gave all of my family members a $5 discount, and 5oo more free balls than anyone else, making it $10 for a gun, mask, 1000 balls, and 4 hrs playing time. That was nice. We had 20 people there.