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April 2009

The flip side
Posted : Tue April 28th

Starting to irritate me
Posted : Fri April 24th

As seen on the internet
Posted : Wed April 22nd

Wildcat 2
Posted : Tue April 21st

Don't panic
Posted : Tue April 21st

Added Categories to RSS feed
Posted : Sat April 18th

Week of hell
Posted : Wed April 15th

Cross-site-scripting
Posted : Fri April 10th

AJAX RSS Reader update
Posted : Mon April 6th

An AJAX RSS reader
Posted : Sun April 5th

Still finding the way
Posted : Sat April 4th

Upgraded zip tool
Posted : Sun March 29th

Stop blaming the computer
Posted : Fri March 27th

KVM joy
Posted : Mon March 23rd

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Starting to irritate me
Posted : Friday April 24th, 2009

Ubuntu.

Like an modern operating system there are software updates and patches available for Ubuntu regularly. Sadly it seems every second or third update seems to hammer all my X-settings and drivers resulting in the display being limited to 1024 by 768 or usually worse.

It would be much better if it would stop doing this.

I won't say that Windows doesn't have its share of problems, certainly it does, but they tend not to have problems like this. To be honest it's this sort of nonsense that relegates Ubuntu to hobbyists and strong computer users and not becoming a real choice for most users.

It's annoying and I just wish I could use Ubuntu for more than a week at a time without the display (or sometimes other visual settings) going all awry on me. Is that really too much to hope for? Frankly, I'm disappointed and I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone to use Ubuntu instead of another OS at present.