Sunday meanderings, weather, images

No particular big enlightenment to share.  I made an attempt to use Ubuntu Dapper on my AMD64 system over the past days and its kind of painful with having to load 32bit versions of things to get things working.  I’ve sheled running Linux on that beast for awhile since I could do Debian’s pure AMD64 and may end up doing it still.  Some things seemed kind of strange in retrospect:

• OpenOffice 2.0.2 on Ubuntu was not happy with NFS shares.  I could load a document but not save it.  I think that this is a file locking issue.
• There is no flash plugin for anything 64bit so one has to run a 32bit version. 
• Java is interesting until you load Blackdown from the repositores.
• The Ubuntu installer got my 256mb PCI-x card all wrong and tried to setup Xorg with the onboard nvidia card even though its disabled with a card in the slot.

None of these things are showstoppers except for taking some time to figure out the whole graphics adaptor thing.  GDM, the little pig that is it, crashed the system any number of times because I could not believe at first that it was gonna setup a video card and PCI location for a card that is not active or even asking me…  Bad.

Other than that, its Sunday and its the day before a big meeting at work.  Perhaps work will become all tuned up like a fancy musical instrument…