Kubuntu KFA

[Grumpy_Penguin]

On Thursday 28 December 2006 23:20, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> If anyone caught my Windows/laptop thread, you noticed I had a certain
> reservation about Kubuntu on my shiny new super el-cheapass laptop.
>
> I'm happy to report that I'm an ignorant luser who doesn't know jack diddly
> about wireless anything, and I'm happy to remain ignorant.
>
> I bought a cheap wireless router at Wally World.  I plugged it into my
> existing wired router.  I figured out the IP address for the administrative
> web interface flummy and told the router to be an access point (would have
> bought an access point, but they didn't have one at Wally World).
>
> Booted Dapper (I already had Dapper burned).  I wasn't expecting the
> wireless to work, given that there are millions of pages about wireless
> hell on Linux.
>
> Well, it works.  I have no idea how it works, what driver, etc.  It just
> works.  Boom.  Boot the damn thing, and I can google from my laptop,
> running off the live CD, without any wires on it.
>
> I plugged my printer into the wireless router, and then sent a job from one
> of my wired boxes.  It worked.  (The printer has its own ethernet print
> server flummy.)
>
> I'd say my little tribulation is over, and there was no tribulation at all.
> The most difficult thing I have to wrestle with now is trying to decide how
> much space to give Winblows, and how much to give over to the Kubuntu
> install I'm about to put on the thing.
>
> It's a bit of a hard question.  What am I going to use Winblows for anyway?
>  I have to admit some things about it are kind of cool, like having a DVD
> play without having to figure out how to
> mplayer /dev/foo/blah -diddle -piddle -flink.  But when you go to change
> out the crappy looking window decorations and it asks for $19.95, and when
> the proffered solution for the many failings of the crappy Windows desktop
> is $49.95, it begins to become obvious that it ain't worth it folks. 
> Windows users are morons for spending all that money on stupid froofrum.
>
> Three cheers for Kubuntu.  I'm a jaded, cynical son of a bitch, and I'm
> impressed.
>
> The only thing to bitch about is my crappy no name video on this thing is
> coming up in VESA mode at 1024x768 on a display fixed at 1280x800.  I'm not
> sure how I'll figure that out, and it probably loses Kubuntu some N00b
> L00z3r P0Int5 for presenting me with this complication.  No, no, I'm not
> bitching. I'll probably figure something out directly.
go into system settings and reconfigure your rez
> --
> D. Michael McIntyre