I’m in love with Emacs. Can’t go back to products like Eclipse or Komodo anymore. Right now my problem with Emacs resides in the spaces and tabs territory. It would be a piece of cake to solve it if it was not for my completely ignorance (yet!) with Emacs Lisp. All I have is a disaster that brings me shame every time I see my .emacs file. PHP and Python modes among copy and paste code from the internet. Newbie!! Now I have to learn elisp.
Emacs? Lisp? Ain’t the title about Ubuntu??
Yes it is!
Well, I’m a huge fan of Ubuntu. Can’t go back to Windows anymore.
There’s only one thing that pisses me off. Wireless is a nightmare. Here’s the saga. Installed Ubuntu 7.04. No wireless. After reading some tutorials and hundreds of posts it finally worked! It is worth pointing out that Ubuntu Forums is great source of information but has a lot of noise.
Updated to Ubuntu 7.10. Wireless broken. Here I go again… forums, blogs… wireless back. Ubuntu 8.04? Guess? Wireless broken again. Hell. Ok, this time just one blog for the rescue. Everything back to normal, then… update in the kernel plus a few more fixes and not for the first time something happened. Guess? Again? Wireless.
I hate to copy and paste solutions from forums. I need to understand why things are the way they are. That’s why every time the Internet on Ubuntu stops I need to re-read tips and recipes and be remembered that I’m no wireless network whiz.
I’m not lazy. I can tell you that. The problem is on my focus. I don’t want to loose my current focus and order some books about wireless from Amazon so I can have internet connection, so I can study elisp (and power of spaces and tabs whenever I want), so I can go back to PHP and Python.
I can only hope that Intrepid Ibex finally offer wireless network working out of the box.
Too much whining today. Guess I’m pissed about my passport and PF here in Brazil. As an angel once told me about PF: “there’s no sense of customer service”.
Note on Dec/02/2008
Bought a new notebook. Good chance to install Intrepid Ibex and check how is the wireless issue. I had a feeling that it would not work. And tadaaaaaa! Crap! I was right. No wireless out of the box and ndiswrapper in rescue. Well, this time I’m running KDE instead of Gnome. Just for the sake of something new. Blue is way cooler than brown.
Note on Mar/22/2009
Truth must be told. KDE 4.1 made me wanna go back to Gnome. I will wait until Ubuntu 9.04 to try Wireless out of the box again and get rid of KDE that by then will probably have a good 4.2 version that I won’t check. That is a lesson for people selling software to be learned. You have to paint a Mona Lisa everyday.
Note on Apr/25/2009