[ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04

[Bob Giles]

Liam, Alan, Tyler, Rob and Silner (+anyone else that I may have forgotten),

Many thanks for all of your observations and suggestions. I have learned 
a couple of things. Firstly the pae kernel! (I should point out that I 
was aware of the limitations re memory and the 32 bit version. I had 
upgraded my memory since the 10.04 upgrade. I considered the 64bit 
option but had been put off by some of the adverse comments that I had 
read.)

I can confirm that the PAE option is automatically used upon 
installation subject to it detecting in excess of 3Gb RAM.

I would have replied sooner but things finally came to a head when 
Thunderbird started messing me about and I ended up losing all emails 
back to last January. I decided that a total reinstall was in order! 
Again I learned something!

I had recently made a brief foray back to the UK (I live in Greece) and 
had taken my netbook for company! Before leaving, I had synched my email 
which meant that upon my return on 20th May I had a backup to that date. 
As I use GMail to access my additional accounts, I was able to use the 
'recent' attribute to download the last 30 days email. (I didn't know 
about that until I went searching for ways to download archived Gmail!) 
I know it's no substitute for a daily backup but hey! I *know* that I am 
not perfect!

The long and the short of it is that after a total reinstall, things are 
fine. I new I should not have gone with the upgrade option! I still 
can't bring myself to go 64 bit!

Thanks everyone yet again. You are a credit to a great list!

Bob Giles
Corfu