dreaMING of Fusion

Finally I have installed Kubuntu Feisty Fawn! But I have to admit that the journey was not exactly smooth. Initially, as I do not have a really reliable connection, I have downloaded the Alternate CD and tried to execute the cdromupgrade script. However, I found that it needs gksu which it not installed. Trying to cheat it. I changed that to kdesu and it successfully launched the Distribution Upgrade tool, but quickly failed due to a bug I discovered in DistUpgradeViewKDE.py and I submitted a bug report . Next, I tried a new attempt using the new Kubuntu Distribution upgrade tool as described here . But it failed during the "Modifying Software Channels" stage due to some gzip error. After some googling, I found that I could modify the /etc/apt/source.list to point to mirrors instead of the official source at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/. To my disappointment, there are no mirrors in Malaysia. So I looked for mirrors in Asia. As I thought Thailand would be the closest nei...

I have just bought a new Caviar SE 250GB EIDE harddisk. I am quite satisfied with it. It run quite and cool just as advertised at it's website . hddtemp shows 34°C when it is under light loading while my room temperature is 30°C: $ hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: WDC WD2500JB-55REA0: 34°C It is currently cooled with a standard 5cm case fan. Even without the fan it seldom reaches 40°C. Anyway, these are some performance numbers which is pretty average and definitely nothing near high performance drives like those 10,000 rpm Raptors $ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 174 MB in 3.03 seconds = 57.48 MB/sec $ sudo hdparm -T /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 1172 MB in 2.00 seconds = 585.58 MB/sec BTW, I have now switch to Kubuntu (yeap, I prefer KDE compared to gnome). I have been using many different distros in the past from Red Hat 4.2, Mandrake, Red Hat 9.1, openSUSE 10.0, then SUSE 10.1. All of them are uses Red Hat/RPM based package management. ...