• 16:45 Quota for the day was 5 papers; I got 10 revisions done. A revision is 1/2 a normal paper, right? #
• 22:35 Since I got done with all my stuff, and so did Leah (and since grandparents were in town), we played Mexican Train on double-12 dominos—Fun! #
• 22:40 Our dehumidifier has settings for "loud" and "quiet." We assume those correspond to something other than just noise. ERRRRRRNNNNNkachunkssss #

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Hello everyone,

I just bought a Thinkpad R61 and since I've been a satisfied Ubuntu user for some months already, I'd like also to use it on my R61. My big problem is looking for R61 drivers compatible for Ubuntu. Lenovo's website and it does not really support many drivers for Linux OS and it's really difficult to search around Google.

So if anyone here can help me (any Thinkpad-Ubuntu users), I would really, really appreciate it.

Thanks.

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Hi everyone,
I'm having issues with wireless after installing (with a clean installation) Ubuntu 9.10.
I have a D-Link Dwl-G122 wireless pen adapter which worked fine with Ubuntu 9.04.
It sees the wireless network available and tries to connect. I enter the WPA key, it tries for a while but ends unsuccesfully and asks for the key again. Any idea?
Thanks!

• 20:35 FINALLY 15/15 papers--which means finishing Parsons MW, TR, and starting PCHS. Whew! #

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.47 has a ton of great new filters that work really well!

Here's a guide:

http://c-quel.deviantart.com/art/Inkscape-0-47-Filter-Guide-143226196

I use Inkscape almost every day and these are super helpful.

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New FCK fixes rich text editor!

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I've been installing and uninstalling lots of stuff lately so I thought I would clean up my system a bit to get rid of all the accumulated crap. I was looking at the recommendations in this thread at Ubuntu forums and one of them says that /tmp can be cleared out regularly so I did that and now I'm having all kinds of problems.

When I try to open up Synaptic, it says my password is incorrect.

When I open up Epiphany, I get an error message saying: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

I don't know if there are other issues, those are the ones I've found so far but I seriously hope not.

HELP! How do I fix this? In simple terms please, I don't want to fuck this up any more than I already have!

ETA: FIXED :)

• 11:36 Celebrated #ArmisticeDay in class today—10:58, read Yeats's "Second Coming" (better than "Flanders Field"), then 11am minute of silence. #
• 17:23 Okay, now got today's five essays graded. Here they go, CHS! Everybody without a C-name, I'll finish yours tomorrow. #
• 17:29 @chadlandman Hey, thanks for serving in Iraq. #brohug #

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It just hit me that the only food I know of outside of unprocessed fruit that no one talks smack about is Cheerios.

Please tell me there is no secret, horrible, deadly, Satanic component to Cheerios.

• 07:23 Sitting on the front porch with Leah--me with my coffee, her with her decaf Earl Grey. Happy life! #
• 14:29 So far, 11 papers graded and it's not yet 3! I may finish with an hour to spare! #
• 15:18 Okay, just looked up official 7th ed. MLA for Bible refs. Version info last is DUMB. #
• 15:20 Scratch that, almost—Citations for ESB or NJB seem normal, but anything ending with "Version" is completely different. DUMB MLA #
• 15:23 Ex.1:
  _Holman Standard Bible_. City: Publisher, Date. Print.
  Ex.2:
  _The Holy Bible_. City: Publisher, Date. Print. English Stand. Vers. #
• 15:54 14 papers so far--all CCHS. Time for class, and only one paper left for the day! #
• 18:24 @thebradmontague As someone who teaches occasionally giggling-for-no-reason highschoolers, that's my ever-present paranoia. #
• 20:33 After working all day, it's time for #Heroes. I dare this episode to top last week's Chrono Trigger reference. #

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 Anyone know where I can download the OE (poetry) corpus without subscribing or paying, please?

TIA!

• 18:07 Finally--done with grades for the day. 5/5, CCHS dented. #

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I don't know about you guys, but every time a new version of Ubuntu comes out, I think about changing over to KDE and giving it a try.

Thing is, I've been using basic Ubuntu since I started and every time I've tried to switch, it's been a bit scary. I know there is a way to have both installed on my computer at once and play with the two, but I am not sure how much storage space they both have.

With everything I've installed since my last clean install (about six months ago), I have 2.3 gigs left free on my / partition. This is a 10-gig partition. Would this be enough to comfortably run both Kubuntu and Ubuntu?

I can't seem to find literature anywhere about how much space each will take, nor do I know just how much software will transfer over. Does anybody have any idea? I'd really like to give KDE a shot, but don't want to make the full switch over yet.

[Note: What I'm talking about is keeping Gnome and KDE running with the same Ubuntu installation. Not two separate installs, just different environments. They'll share the same software et al. Sorry for the confusion]

• 14:35 @emuhleem Hey—you'd never been born before, and she'd already had two daughters. She was probably just going through the motions. #
• 21:45 Sigh--time for bed. Graded 4/5 papers today, but at least I finished CCHS P9. Now: P10, coming in fast. #

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