Elder Daughter needed to be at school by 6:30 this morning in order to catch the bus to Colorado University’s Band Day festivities. They’re marching in an event there today and the bus leaves early. So, I had to walk earlier than normal.
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Wish I hadn’t wiggled so much this morning. The moon was actually in the frame in the upper right.
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Some vendors provide recovery disks in the form of CD/DVD images stashed on the harddrive when the machine ships. You just have to run their tool to burn the restore images out to the appropriate CD-R/DVD+/-R. This produces actual factory recovery disks, as opposed to the system restore images you probably have now. There are pros and cons to having both, so if you have the option to do this still, I would certainly recommend it. In the case of HP, unless you’ve blown it away deliberately, the capability to do this will be lurking there.
On an email note, have you considered switching to IMAP for access instead of POP? I’m not saying it’s necessarily a fit for your situation, but it may be worth considering (assuming, of course, your mail server will play along). It’s nice being able to have a mailbox be in sync across multiple systems.
I would NOT switch to evolution. Ubuntu is talking about dropping it in favor of Thunderbird in 11.10 or 12.04 can’t remember which so it’s days appear to be numbered. There have been rumblings of other distro’s doing the same but I don’t know about when or if for that matter.
The last two laptops I installed Kubuntu on I had a network cable plugged in until the install was complete then configured the wifi with my password and walaa it worked. No hunting drivers. On an HP laptop a couple months ago I had to run the additional drivers icon in system and it found the correct driver and installed it. I configured the the wifi password and it worked. I have never found a laptop the wifi just worked out of the box in linux or windows for that matter. I have always had to start with a network cable first. Maybe I just have bad luck. I have been building computers for over thirty years so that is a lot of bad luck. After I retired I decided I would only work on Linux and for the last 12 years I have mostly used Ubuntu/Kubuntu, SUSE until Novel bought them and sucked up to MS. Kubuntu for myself and ubuntu if someone wants it. I have started leaning toward pclinuxOS KDE the last few months but I still need some more testing to be confortable with it. I don’t like rpm releases so thats a problem for me. All my servers are ubuntu server the latest LTS release. I upgrade them a couple months after a new LTS release. I know I like living on the edge but my customers appear to be happy. LOL