* Posts by Gareth Bult 1

3 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2009

Google's Nexus One sales still sluggish

Gareth Bult 1

You wanna try one?

Just walk into a "3" shop and have a play with the "HTC hero" on display .. then consider the Nexus is the same but "more" .. I reckon about 3-4 mins is all you'll need.

UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files

Gareth Bult 1
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The scary thing is ...

We're all just sitting here letting it happen ...

Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

Gareth Bult 1

Is Karmic crap because it's crap, or because we want to promote Windows 7?

Mmm, all of a sudden the Register believes everything it reads! I've done 10 clean installs, no problem and upgraded 5 diverse machines no problem. In particular, this workstation is a Phenom II X4 with an Nvidia Quad with 4 screens running Xinerama, 3 x 1Tb SATA's on a RAID3, with 10 VM's running under KVM .. it boots off LVM / RAID3 .. I guess you could get a more complex box but it's up there as a workstation designed to break an upgrade procedure.

(Oh, and it's part of a redhat cman cluster setup..)

Not only did the upgrade not break anything or make the screen go fuzzy, it's the FIRST major upgrade I've done on Ubuntu which hasn't reduced the system to 1 screen and made me reconfigure the NVidia driver to get my 4-screen view back.

Canonical have a lot to be worried about, but I don't think the 9.10 install / upgrade is going to be one of them .. I just tried Fedora 11, doesn't really compare ..