Not Much Is Going On
Well, as the title suggests, not much is happening right now. I’ve had a couple of exams. I took one yesterday in statistics, one today in accounting, and I have one tomorrow in computer science. According to my estimations, I did pretty well in both statistics in accounting, but I will know for sure next week. I’m not even worried about the computer science exam, because I have the material down. The chapter was pretty easy, so it’s no big deal.
I’ve been studying hard, hanging out, and playing games. The weather is cooling down here. We’ve had a couple of days where the high is 40F. Right now, it’s averaging in the lower 50s and the upper 40s. I noticed that the average high for November 2nd in Mansfield is equal to that of the coldest day of the year (on average) in Columbia, SC. So, I imagine this winter will be cold. I won’t be missing the cold weather, as I return from winter break on January 10th.
Right now, I’m testing out Kubuntu 7.10 (as I’m a KDE fan) and I have mixed feelings about it. I may post a review on it sometime in the future. Here’s a quick overview:
As I suspected, everything is geared towards the very inexperienced end-user. The install is far too simple to be functional for a power-user. Everything has been dumbed down. The apt-get graphical interface is fairly nice and pretty easy to use. However, it wanted me to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 (um, didn’t I just download Kubuntu 7.10?). When I went to upgrade, it idled and would not complete the upgrade, no matter how many times I restarted it. Due to the lack of feedback from the application, I was never able to ‘upgrade’ to the version that I already have. Additionally, Amarok refused to install MP3 support. No matter how many times it went through the MP3 support installer and no matter how many times I restarted Amarok when it told me to, MP3 support still would not work. Also, not many applications are installed by default. I have played with Fedora for a few years now and it comes with a boatload of applications, while Kubuntu/Ubuntu is a very minimal install by default.
On the plus side, ACPI works well right out of the box. I was (and am) having quite a difficult time getting ACPI to work properly with Gentoo. I haven’t tested out the hibernate or suspend features in Kubuntu, but they are options on the menu. I still don’t have proper suspend and hibernate support from Gentoo’s suspend2-sources.
Well, there’s my periodic update. If there are a lot of grammatical errors, it’s because I’m tired.