Comments on: Linkblogging For 29/10/09

By: Holly

Holly — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:25:28 +0000

The upgrade worked fine for me, no real glitches at all other than ones related to my fussiness about fonts. :)

By: Jennie

Jennie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:36:00 +0000

Furry nuff

*hug*

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:33:49 +0000

Really? That *is* impressive.
TBH, I’d say that your kind of blogging is far more likely to produce that kind of result than the ‘wikio top blogger’ type, because you’re writing about everything *including* politics, rather than shouting into an echo chamber – it’s the latter more than the former I’m talking about…

By: Jennie

Jennie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:08:58 +0000

Recruited 6 new members for the party. OK, that’s not a big change, but it’s a change.

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:04:32 +0000

(To clarify, I find writing about politics, and reading other people’s thoughts on it, interesting, but anyone who thinks they’ve changed anything at all with a blog post is, frankly, delusional…)

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:03:12 +0000

Yeah – I actually agree with you to a large extent…

I’ll definitely be up for that – probably not both days, but I’ll definitely be up for it on Sunday. When/where is the meet-up?

By: Dave Page

Dave Page — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:58:13 +0000

I’m sure you know my opinions on political blogging by now.

However, I’ll be over in Withington Constituency for their action weekend tomorrow and Sunday if you fancy joining me. Probably easiest to get a 168 bus from the station to Owens’ Park and walk down from there…

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:39:41 +0000

Nah, go the whole hog ;)

By: pillock

pillock — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:34:19 +0000

Thanks, Andrew…actually now that I recall my brother told me to upgrade to “Hardy” and then just wait, lingering, two updates behind…

Very happy with “Hardy”, by the way.

But what do you think, should I upgrade to…oh, what’s it called…”Gentoo”? I understand it’s the next step.

By: Andrew Hickey

Andrew Hickey — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:30:59 +0000

The upgrade to Hardy involved far more userland changes than any of the other upgrades, as I remember. However, Hardy is also the most recent ‘log term support’ version of Ubuntu – normally they only support each release for six months, but every LTS one gets supported for two years, so if you’re happy with that I’d keep that one until the next LTS release comes out next year.

If you’re not happy with OpenOffice.Org though, I’d suggest you try installing gnome-office (or at least the word processing part Abiword). Abiword is far less bloated than OpenOffice.org Writer, and contains functionality it doesn’t have, like a thesaurus…