Index of /log/2005/Oct

Yesterday spacey and I arrived in Montreal, after a 1-hour flight from Schiphol (Amsterdam) to London Heathrow and a 6-hour flight from there to Montreal.

We met Mithrandir and Simira at Schiphol airport, where they were transferring to a direct plane to Montreal, and we met a LOT of Ubuntu-people while waiting on Heathrow.

Long flights like this are BORING. The first hours are OK, you watch a movie, fiddle aroud a bit with your laptop.. but after that it's just a long wait, and watching the map on the entertainment console doesn't help very much. The boredom was made worse by the fact that I couldn't really sleep, as it was evening in Montreal when we arrived, and I wanted to sleep at the hostel to avoid most of the jet lag ;)

Today is Ubuntu Love Day, with talks from lots of people about lots of things: Kubuntu, Edubuntu, the inner workings of the community, etc. -- I'll post some pictures and "moviegotchis" later.

Last week I bought a camcorder to record jdub's BadgerBadgerBadger mega-talk (more on that when the tour is over—stay tuned!).

As buying a camera for only one talk would be a waste of money, I started recording random people (well, Ubuntu-using people) saying that they use Ubuntu, or how they pronounce it.

The results are in my movies directory. Currently, there are only a few, but I intend to expand the list during Ubuntu Below Zero and during the Dutch Team Spurt weekend.

Because I'm a member of the Ubuntu Laptop Testing Team, I have to do a lot of (re-)installs. I don't really like a few of the default settings in Gnome and Firefox, so I whipped up a small shellscript to configure them to my wishes without it taking me an hour. It also looks cool to see the desktop react immediately to gconf keys being changed :)

Everyone seems to be posting their laptop success/failure story, so I can't stay behind ;)

I got a HP-NW8240 to test from Canonical. Lots of things don't work yet for breezy though:

• The default "ati" display driver won't give me a stable image on 1920x1200 (the native LCD resolution). It's all jumping/moving around.
• Because of this (the fglrx driver does work), it's impossible to switch back to the text console from X (bug in fglrx). Also, resuming from sleep nicely doesn't work, probably because of the same (or a related) bug.

The rest of the laptop (hotkeys, docking station, even the LED in the mute button!) seems to work perfectly.