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Monthly Archives: May 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Annoyances

Sunday, May 17, 2009

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 from 8.10 over the weekend.
The good:
Faster boot up. (worth the upgrade all by itself)
New notification “bubbles” that appear and then disappear again without any fuss.
OpenOffice 3.0 and other software upgrades.
The Bad:
Required tweaks to my pam_mount.conf.xml file to get my encrypted home directory to work. (Not an issue [...]

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Ubuntu 8.10 bootup time compared with 9.04 and Windows Vista

Saturday, May 16, 2009

One of the claimed features that made me upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 was the boot-up speed increases. Before the upgrade using Ubuntu 8.10 it took my computer 55 seconds to boot up to the login screen. Including a very fast (2 second) login, it took 1:25 until the desktop was “usable”. Starting Thunderbird and [...]

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DM-Crypt encrypted volume upgrade problems to Ubuntu 9.04

Saturday, May 16, 2009

I just used the distribution upgrade option to move from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. My dm-crypt encrypted home directory initially refused to load, and I had to change my volume entry in the /etc/security/pam_mount.conf.xml to make it work again.
Specifically, a few of the defaults had changed, so now I had to specify the old (8.04) [...]

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Printer Ink, $9507 a gallon

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Just replaced an HP 74 black ink cartridge and purchased another backup cartridge for $13.11 (well below the standard price). Difference in weight between the full (28g) and empty cartridge (23g) is 5 grams. Assuming ink has the same density as water, that is $9507 a gallon. Assuming the 200 page per cartridge yield from [...]

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