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The HP NW8240 that Canonical sent to me has a display resolution of 1920x1200 @ 15.4". After using it for a while, it seems like all my old screens (1280x800 @ 15.4" and 1024x768 @ 14" have huge pixels, and nothing will ever fit on the screen. And the fonts are not really as nice and crisp as they are on the HP.

I might be developing a high-resolution addiction..

Apparently, Acer laptop keyboards are the worst:

(note the € and $ keys...)

Someone complained to me about my RSS feed being broken.. for some reason his reader doesn't allow <author> fields with email-addresses between < and >. I've changed it to emailaddress (Name), but I feel like this is a bug in his RSS parser (I escaped the <s and >s for a reason).

Or did I just land in double-escape hell and should I use crazy stuff like &amp;lt;, even though Feed Validator thinks my feed is valid?

Update: It seems that Planet Ubuntu is un-escaping, but then does not re-escape when it writes its own feed. Also, it doesn't seem to pick up the change I made to my <author> fields.

For the first time in almost 5 years, the 3 audio hotkeys on my ancient laptop work. And not only that, but they do the right things after a clean install of the daily breezy. Breezy is getting better every day.

A few months ago, I was sitting in the train to Leiden, and I noticed something weird on the doors:

Today I was standing in the train back from Amsterdam, and saw this on the door:

People do weird things...

Hello, Planet Ubuntu!

Because I haven't received the shiny new Ubuntu-test-laptop yet, I've decided to start creating installation reports on my old laptop: a MyNote C730 from late 200. It has a 600MHz Pentium III Coppermine, and a whopping 192M of memory, and it has never worked completely out of the box.

I was a bit surprised by how well the hoary install went (I had previously only installed warty, and upgraded from there), and almost everything worked immediately, even hibernation (which used to cycle a lot: it re-hibernated every time it came out of hibernation, very annoying :)). There were still a few thing that didn't quite work as expected, like IrDA and the sleep button, but that's not a big issue.

Installing breezy is almost the same as installing hoary, except it offers to reize your current partition and create new partitions in the reclaimed space (cool), or installation using LVM (even cooler). Installation of packages after the first reboot looks a lot nicer to. No long lists of dpkg output, but a nice progress bar, so you know how much coffee you need to make before you're able to use the system.

The brand-new breezy install still has some problems too, the most obvious one being thet X doesn't start (but that's supposed to be a temporary problem). I'm going to try again tomorrow. Stay tuned.

You can find the results on the LaptopTestingTeam/AsusL7300G page in the Ubuntu wiki.

After lots of thinking about setting up a weblog, giving up, trying to write my own, losing interest, and trying again. I finally gave up and installed PyBlosxom, and now I'm fully 21st-century compliant again! Yay!