Singularity on the Plane

I’m currently in Jakarta and there’s 24/7 internet connection here.

My hard disk is with me on this travel since I had planned to download tons of Ubuntu deb files and I didn’t want to waste CDs to transfer files.

The hardware on my cousin’s machine is very different from my box (P IV, GF2MX vs Athlon XP, FX5200). Of course the Ubuntu (Breezy) which was already on my hard disk didn’t want to boot. I had to reinstall. What amazed me is that Windows XP SP2 which was installed on another partition on my HD could perfectly boot on my cousin’s computer! Now that’s what I call a superb adaptation.

PS: My father told me that he tried to add a RAM stick to one of his Linux box (Ubuntu Hoary) and the result is a kernel panic! Dunno whether Breezy could handle it (but I can assure that Windows 95 handles memory size change just fine).

So, after the Ubuntu is set up I just did lots of

sudo apt-get –print-uris -y install blablabla

and gather all URLs that apt-get spits out. After all the URLs are in my hands, I download them using download manager such as FlashGet (Windows) and d4x (Linux). Oh, and I had to record all files that every package depends on (for example to install “octave” we need “a.deb”, “b.deb”, and “c.deb”). It was really laborsome so that I’m currently writing a program to simplify this boring routine. Should help me a lot for Dapper.

The deb files worked like a charm. I finally got banshee and f-spot running! MonoDevelop is kinda working (can compile GTK# programs but to we cannot run the executable from MonoDevelop). Haven’t tried beagle yet.

Oh, I also got my flash disk fried here :(. I plugged it to a USB plug which isn’t working (not connected to the mobo) and left it to the toilet. When I came back, the flash disk is already heated and it simply won’t work anymore :(. I think it is still on the warranty time so it should be not much of a problem.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 8th, 2005 at 6:52 am by Agro Rachmatullah and is filed under Hardware & Software, Life. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.