hrm. occasionally since i’ve upgraded to 8.04 final, i’ve noticed that i completely lose ctrl, alt, or shift…. it’s really hard to use a linux system when you can’t use those modifiers. i started paying a little more attention when it would happen and i only ever lost those keys after vmware had been running for a little bit.

i updated vmware-run-any-update from v115 to v116 (here) and things are looking a little better. i think all the sysctl.conf changes i made for vmware were lost when i upgraded…. since ubuntu 8.04 is running 2.6.24 w/ the new schedulers i haven’t really had to go back and re-tweak the vmware settings anyhow.

i’m still fighting the urge to install firefox 2 so i don’t have to use firefox 3 beta 5…. it sucks not having my old add-ons… and wierd script errors are plaguing a few sites.

i started a dist-upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 on my work laptop last night. it wasn’t finished when i woke up cause i was prompted to replace a couple of system files i had modified. for the most part the upgrade was uneventful, although i did have to play the nvidia module swap game when the system booted.

nvidia module swap game
1. ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to a different virtual console
2. sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop to kill off X
3. sudo sh ./NVIDIA*.run hopefully you downloaded this before the upgrade. heh #
4. copy a working xorg.conf into place, remove any xorg.conf.failsafe
5. sudo /etc/intit.d/gdm start

i did a quick test to see if hibernate works, nope… i’ll have to poke around to see what i’m missing. no biggie since i haven’t had hibernate work for awhile anyhow. i’m still not too sure about firefox 3 beta 5 though…. i have a ton of extensions that don’t work now. boo.

iphone mythtv frontend

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m21jlkiV9oI

check it out! chris carey just released a mythtv frontend for the iphone. not only can you stream your mythtv collection to your iphone, but you can also control your mythtv box from your iphone![here]