It’s the little things that kill
April 11th, 2005 | Published in good news!
Work, work, work. Well, preface that with “pretending”. At least for the last week or so. Didn’t have much in the way of coursework to do last week so I spent some time poking at COSI-related things. Ended up making a new auto-install CD ISO based on Gentoo 2004.3 (which has its pros and cons).
I also hopefully found a place to live in Poughkeepsie this summer. Now I just need to continue the search for something in Potsdam for the fall, although there’s still one pesky PhD program that hasn’t gotten back to me.
Yesterday my parents came up for the day to attend University Recogition Day. Turns out Mike and I ended up receiving the Miller/Davis service award, which I guess made sitting through the 2 hour ceremony worth it.
On a more technical note, what Mike meant to say was: gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/no_ubuntu_spatial true (note the correct spelling of “spatial” 
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Also, for those of you using a Debian-based distro and are annoyed that netapplet doesn’t correctly switch from WEP-enabled to non-WEP-enabled access points, or the fact that it won’t force dhclient to get a new lease, see here.
Update: If you’re using Ubuntu and want a quieter start up, edit /etc/default/rcS and change VERBOSE=yes to VERBOSE=no. Next up? Patching dhclient to have a refresh leases option.
Update 2: I just noticed that my x86 box already had VERBOSE=no, so perhaps it’s only different on PPC machines. Or it could be because I installed Ubuntu on my laptop about 5 months before I installed it on my desktop.
