Linux I hate you

My wireless card problem, yet again reared its ugly head. It wouldn’t connect to WPA enabled routers. So I had to mess around re-installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Which is down a full version from what I was running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). I think they should call the next version “Dead Parrot” as a reference to Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I’m counting down the days to a...

My love/hate relationship with Linux

Image by Paul Watson via Flickr My love/hate relationship with Linux will be ending in 2010. I am just fed up of the many workarounds needed just to get something as simple as a wireless card to work. I never really wanted into the Linux world full time it was thrust upon me as a temporary emergency measure so I could once more have a working machine. Unfortunately this temporary stop gap has lasted over 18...