intertwingly

Hard drive arrived on Thursday, Hardy Heron Alpha 5 was released on Friday.  I downloaded it this morning, and installed it.  Twice.

Just for grins, I tried out Wubi.  It picked up all my information except my password.  I entered my password (twice) and increased the installation size, and let it go.  After it churned for a few minutes, it told me I had to reboot.  In the boot menu, there is now a third option: Ubuntu.  Selecting it caused me to proceed to the Ubuntu installation, which required a second boot after done.  Selecting Ubuntu again worked flawlessly: video, audio, wireless etc were all picked up.  Per the FAQ, suspend/resume doesn’t work under Wubi.

I briefly looked into KVM and QEMU, but the instructions I found require me to install a new copy of windows instead of making use of the version of Windows that I already have installed.

I then proceeded to install on a clean hard drive.  Again, the installation went flawlessly.  Video, audio, wireless work, and suspend/resume all work without the need for any restricted drivers.  There is a restricted driver available for video, but it causes Firefox to miscompute the DPI (workaround) and fail to suspend/resume.  I’m sticking with the open source driver for now.

Not happy with the initial font selection for Firefox 3 Beta 3.  Some sites look fine.  Mine does not.  Will need to play with that a bit.

Swapping back to Windows hard drive, I note that the time is GMT.  Here's a way to fix that.