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Today an upgrade for the pro edition of the Fast Track Sites Blogging Technology System has been released. This update fixes the list options for the bbcode section, and also adds lightbox support.
April marked the month of the newest release of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn. Read the following review to see how stable the system is and how easy upgrading from the extremely stable Dapper Drake release is.
Our Setup:
For our setup we have 3 year old computer running on the following specs.
PC Specs
Ubuntu Dapper Drake
Abit IC-7G Motherboard
Intel Celereon 2.6 GHz Processor
512MB DDR SDRAM
160GB Western Digital Harddrive
LG DVD-ROM Drive
LG CD-RW Drive
nVidia MX440 Graphics Card
Other Hardware:
HP Photosmart Printer
Logitech LX710 Laser Mouse and Keyboard
USB Thumbdrives
Overview and Upgrade:
This review is going to be over upgrading my main computer, i've been working on a replacement but since thats noot finished and Dapper is over a year old i decided id test the upgrade. Edgy had given really bad issues with this pc before and a total reinstall became necessary back then, so i was a little on edge about the upgrade.
Before i began the process i made sure i had backups of everything i would need incase of data loss and then fired off the first command:
Code:
gksu “update-manager -c ”
Sure enough i was able to click and begin the upgrade to Feisty. After several screens i got a few errors about broken packages and the installer stopped from here i edited my /etc/apt/sources.list and changed all my dapper entries to feisty and ran the following:
Code:
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I had to do this several times to get it working right, finally after a restart i had a new kernel and some new errors, seemed like my system had hit edgy then feisty and one of my new kernels wasnt working properly. After fixing my sources.list, running the above commands a few more times, installing the nVidia drivers using envy, and changing to the new usplash(the custom one i had wasnt working) i had most of my applications working.
Problems:
Other than some boot up errors that were fixed by removing a flash drive on booting, i only have a few complaints, but also a few congrats as well.
My thumbdrive always automounted as usbdisk, in feisty this gets changed to disk. If you try and change the mount point, the drive no longer automounts and you then have to manually mount it, remove the custom mount point, and then unmount it, and replug it in. Apparently if you change the label the drive will mount with that name though.
Something nice but irritating is that Feisty tries to repair or add broken menu items. I had to manually make a kasablanca menu item in the past, when i upgraded, Feisty threw in its own instead of replacing the one that was there. There are both postive and negative sides that could be argued, but hey its just a heads up.
The overall Experience:
The actual upgrade wasn't as bad as it seemed, no life threating errors, no bricked system(the new .20 gave me a scare though), and completely stable in the end. There are several nice new features in feisty. The ability to add desktop effects is nice, my systems kind of buggy with it, but its nice that its there. Theres also a tomboy sticky note replacement that is nice, as well as several new programs.
All in all the new release is extremely stable and extremely great, its also very fault tolerant as i found out. Thumbs up to the Ubuntu team for a great and timely release!
We usually don't blog about our finished websites, but i think it's time we started. I'm really proud of the way the final website turned out.
History behind the Site:
The Guaranteed Painting website marks a sectioning off of the original Guaranteed Resurfacing website. The website has a lot of colors and a few new features such as a image gallery with easy uploading capabilities, a different style of counter, and is built to allow easy upgrades. We've also added a blog system and integrated it into the website.
If you're looking for a great paint job, or need your kitchen or bathroom refinished, check out Guaranteed Painting and Resurfacing.
This year marks the start of the new Daylight Savings Time standards set in place by congress. Everyone seems to be scrambling around to get every PC, router, switch, phone, and any other piece of hardware that keeps time updated.
Below are the instructions on how to accomplish this on Ubuntu.
Open up a terminal window or go to tty1 and enter the following command:
Code:
sudo zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
Youll see 4 lines being returned, if they match the lines below than youre ok:
Code:
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 08:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 CDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-18000
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 4 07:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 CST isdst=0 gmtoff=-21600
If your lines dont match then youll need to following the following steps:
1. Open up terminal or switch to tty1(youll need to login)
2. cd /tmp
3. ftp elsie.nci.nih.gov
user: anonymous
pass: you_(at)_you.com --Substitute the _(at)_ for @
4. cd pub
5. ls
6. use 'get' to get the latest tzdata file like so:
get tzdata2007a.tar.gz
7. quit
8. mkdir tzdata
9. mv tzdata*.gz tzdata/.
10. cd tzdata
11. tar xzvf *.gz
12. sudo cp /etc/localtime /etc/localtime.LAST
13. sudo rm /etc/localtime
14. sudo zic northamerica
15. sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
16. sudo zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007
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