UBUNTU 12.04 LTS & WINDOWS 7 PREVIEW

This is just to notify you that I have a very good, quite revealing and hopefully funny video coming up.

I have delved deeper into ... things and I have managed to achieve thigs I have NOT achieved beforehand. I also had a suspicion prior to attempting this so I decided to film myself doing this and at first I think I guessed wrong and the I am all "Oooh I was right!"

LMAO!

Hopefully this will help a great many as I find out what in the hell was going on, a bit of naivety on one side with some real sinister stuff on the other side, lol.

Also for those with dual HDD bay HP Pavilion and Envy laptops or redundant Optical Drives I may have some help and advice to help you improve your system.

The film is done, or in fact there are TWO, lmao, but I just have to finish a few things and something is downloading right now, ooh that is another hilarious part, and I should have this nailed down tight tonight or tomorrow during the day.

I will upload the, THEN, THREE videos to my YouTube account and then link them into my next post on here.

I was pretty surprised with what I thought up and even more surprised when I took a guess, thought up a way of proving it and then manage to think of filming it before i did it.

See those three dead birds?! Well I only had ONE STONE?!?!

LMAO!

RETURN OF WINDOWS 7 DUAL BOOT PART ONE

Well here is the first half of the story behind Windows returning.... or Elder Scrolls returning and Skyrim in particular, lol.

The 8GB USB Key, someone borrowed by 16GB one and not bought it back yet, lol.

 Only the ISO Image turns out to be a damned Polish one?! Morons!!

 The OLD DVD Drive REMOVED

The HARD DRIVE CADDY with Western Digital Scorpion HDD in place, even has a cool blue LED light?!

 

The 160GB Western Digital Drive seen in GParted!!

This STILL leaves my and HDD Bay EMPTY?!?! LOL!

 

If I had a 6 series graphics chip I would put an SSD in the 2nd bay?!

UBUNTU AND WINDOWS FINAL ROUND

Right the time is almost upon us...or just me, lol.

I have had some really bad days being two things...

Very ill and in a great deal of pain and even spent an entire day in a useless hospital that has nothing but the stench of death for me, having many friends and family die there it is becoming stupid.

Anyway I am recovering slowly and hopefully tomorrow I will be indoors all, or at least most, of the day.

I am going to try a couple of things to see if I can get the current installation of Windows 7 up and booting again?!

I have two methods to be able to do this by way of a Recovery Disk I have acquired and a Windows 7 Full DVD of Home Premium, I will TEACH them for not providing a hard copy?! LMAO!

Anyway failing these two methods I will at least get in and send all my Windows files off to an external 2 Terabyte Hard Drive and then will do the same with the Ubuntu files.

Then and very early next week I have something arriving and it is a caddy that turns my Optical Drive bay into a HDD/SSD Drive bay.

Now I have two options with that in the I DO have a 160GB Western Digital Scorpio Drive here which I could USE to install Ubuntu to or I could get something else.

An SSD would be a bit if a stretch at this point in time and I would want to load Windows 7 onto an SSD anyway as it would need it more than Ubuntu! LOL. Poor Windows!

SO that is what is coming up shortly, the last post or two where I get everything back and NOT to the way it was before but BETTER!

I will obviously do the odd video, albeit shorter and minus the cussing this time, lol.

Ooh yeah and that Ubuntu book should arrive too?!

Hmm but now remembered I am hearing about 13.04 now so i might look that up on the Internet so what people are saying about it?! I am thinking that the 13.04 will be like the 12.04 and be a Long Term Support OS and the 13.10 will be like the 12.10?!

Still got a great deal to get my head round with this and the two Linux Magazines could use a little work too?! Blimey guys you are supposed to make the OS appeal to a wider audience and I wanted to yawn in places! Got annoyed with myself when I was tempted to flick on past whole sections so have to keep picking them up and going through it.

Not even my Linux Pocket Guide book by O'Reilly has been that bad?! Lol.

Now I am sure there is something else I have ordered and do not know if it is related to this blog or another....ooh I know it is another harness but for my bird watching binoculars!! LOL!

LINUX POCKET GUIDE O'REILLY by DANIEL BARRETT

Well my book has turned up and a great deal earlier than expected to be honest, lol.

It also looks new.

Now it is only a beginners book that is for sure but it was a long time ago I had my little brush with Red Hat and and I remember....NOTHING! Have a hard enough time, well I did last night, remember DOS commands, lol!

So I will go through this and tomorrow order another book and in the meantime time and little by little I was focus in on this Windows booting problem to see if I can fix it.

Now it is entirely possible that something may...present itself to me and a variety of things...

I could end up starting to build a new RIG, ohh I wish!

I could end up getting a SECOND HDD.

Now the latter would be easy to do as my laptop has a SECOND HDD bay next to the first, only you need a special plug and lead to be able to PLUG a secind hard drive in and...

HP want £90 for two 50 Pence plugs and a bit of wire?!

NICE.

How about this Hewlett Packard?...

I buy a Replacement CADDY for my OPTICAL DRIVE with a HDD Fitted?!

Now even THESE are overpriced and yet STILL COMBINED cost less than Hewlett Packard's wire?!?! I kid you not?!

I visited Maplin when I first wanted to do this and someone that actually worked in the store had the same issue and my jaw dropped when he said "Have you got a HO laptop by any chance?"

You know I felt sorry for HP when they got into that trouble but in all honesty...

After the SHIT I have owned for the last year I would NEVER touch another product of theirs again!!

Two laptops and a printer I have owned of theirs and was hoping to buy a desktop but no bloody chance in hell. I could go into more details about the crap they install on your laptop and how utterly useless it all is but will just droan on o for hours, lol.

In fact I am not sure I would EVER buy a laptop again in all honesty, not after this. Not a Windows laptop that is for sure!

NEVER!!

I will also not buy Windows 8 either...NEVER!!!

So Microsoft had better get their heads out their arses over the next two years as they are climbing up it and will disappear up the own jacksies by then!

This utter manipulation of users just to try to get more cash and stop others from getting cash has got to stop.

Also I have seen no end of anti trust cases going on but have now been exposed to some that are far worse and far more obvious to those already pursued and yet I hear NOTHING of any action?!

Also I am not the only one that sees this and a great many see it too and one example is the disappearance of the boot.ini file and I cannot find a way to tell the Windows boot that Windows is now on the X: drive. Well until I do Windows stays off my laptop I am afraid to say so you kinda shot yourself in the foot their Microsoft?!

I also find it kinda odd how two completely different Operating Systems that seem OK for the most part have had utterly disastrous OS releases either side of them?!

This is not me you understand but what others say as I have not used anything other than Windows 7, since Win XP, and Ubuntu 12.04, since Red Hat err circa 1998.

So with Windows 7 you have Vista prior and 8 post its release. I have heard nothing good about either one and Valve seem to feel the same.

With Ubuntu 12.04 you have...err whatever version they were ooh wait they had tens in them?! 11.10 and 12.10?!

With the latter there were two things that concerned me and that was the BIG ICONS and looking like it was going for a touch screen design, stupid on PCs as Microsoft is finding out. The other was the integration of Amazon ads into the OS?! Oooh boy was that stupid!!!

If you have not worked out the obvious this I call going after the gravy and everything else gets left behind or discarded, or us...

...so it is MONEY and not USERS that matters. But as they always say it is about users they LIE.

Hmm sounds a lot like governments and I guess the proverbial BREEDS?!

Like I said before it became obvious that you have to lie your way to the top, everyone knows that, but what amazes me is that when you get there and get caught out LYING the public go oooh your at the top?! You cannot lie?!!! BURN HIM, GET RID OF HIM?!

But wait you knew damn well people lie their way to the top, they lie just about everywhere I look on the Internet. Why so shocked when someone in charge of a large corporation lies? Why surprised when the government lies?

I get annoyed and frustrated with these things and these companies because I KNOW what they are like. I express frustration but I do NOT express shock. Ooh OK yes maybe with the Ubuntu going for the money ...YES, OK I was surprised. But as regards to the contempt shown to people and the love of the POUND NOTE or DOLLAR no surprise at all. Funny enough they have had this attitude for decades now but...aren't well all now skint?!?!?!

Oh well that attitude works then does it not?!

Is their even a fleeting sense of an aroma of coffee?

IRC: UBUNTU SERVER COMMUNITY HELPED ME

I got some help and avice to successfully and FINALLY install this AMD graphics drivers.

Woohoo I was o bloody happy and spent hours at it tonight.

Well at least I was until I rebooted for the new Drivers to be full installed and Ubuntu 12.04 refused to boot for the third time after three installs?!

Oddly the chap who helped me had the exact same graphics chip as me?!

There are several of them wondering where i went and I guessed by now they figured it failed yet again, to make it more hilarious they started off my telling me to go and download the drivers from AMD's site?!

Well, DUHHHHH!!! LMAO!

BACK ON IRC (Inetrnet Relay Chat) AFTER 15 YEARS: UBUNTU COMMUNITY

 Was in an Ubuntu-Expats Channel on IRC.

Chap in their gave me this webpage, blog, lol.

http://blog.pault.ag/post/44821301540/ubuntu-the-community

Seems not all is well in the Ubuntu camp, well it is like I have said so many times before on both here and my corruption blog and by now you should bloody well know what I am going to say!

But I am not!!

LMAO!!

WAS CONTEMPLATING AN UBUNTU RIG

I was in my local Maplin store today and I bought a catalogue and spent time looking at PC cases.

The Ubuntu installation had finished just before I went out with the plan on installing the drivers when I got home so nice and easy, cup of tea and no rush.

Now I had wanted to build a PC Rig anyway but I was now looking at a little tiny Coolermaster case and wondering whether to first build a cheaper Ubuntu rig and then move onto a second rig.

This way I could keep the work i am doing and the things that need to be secure, SECURE.

The other RIG would be for gaming and over-clocking too.

I had thought about two SSD's and dual booting on the same rig but too close for comfort and in all honesty it seems to be more of a pain in the backside than ever.

When I worked for a solicitor several years ago he was into Apples and always tried to convince me to go over to them but ... though I used to like the firm they had become too much like Intel of late.

A shame that many of the companies in the western world like to sit on their laurels while milking it for every penny while the Asian firms will just invent, invent, invent every step of the way and western companies do not like that and I think they are wrong, wrong, WRONG. LMAO!

I hate that attitude of create something and then try to live of that one thing and live like a King on it?!

I do not think Michaelangelo did that?!

I do not think Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart did that?! In fact he died penniless and was buried in a pauper's grave and I do no think they even know the exact locality of him.

In my book this is called laziness and the funny thing is that much of the higher echolons of society are like this but when working class people do not want to do back breaking work that will not even pay their rent/mortgage along with all their bills as well as walk or cycle for miles to get to work despite the mount of pains that someone may suffer from then they have the audacity to call them lazy?!

Lol!

Of course this now shows up in a big way because the really cushy numbers they had as jobs while being paid a great deal to do very little they have now screwed up at and cost their country billions upon billions and STILL they want the big bucks while doing sweet F.A?! LMAO!

The west really needs t change its attitudes in a great number of areas and a great number of ways and stop lording it up and making claims about crimes against humanity to the media and other countries as your just seen as TWO FACED and the liars that you are.

Ooh wait a minute is this not the WRONG BLOG?!

LMAO!

CRISS-CROSS.

As for this small Ubuntu rig now I really do not know about this. It seemed the logical step in all honesty but after the past few days it is a case of, bloody hell go through that again and wast several hundred pounds doing it?! LOL!

What would have been the obvious thing, and the reason why Linux OS should be SCREAMING at AMD is the APU is going to become very mainstream.

I am panicking a little because if I built an AMD FX-8350 rig tomorrow and in 2014 a 8 core AMD APU was released i would chew my fingernails so badly in frustration I would end p with one inch stumps as fingers?!

LMAO!

A 22 Nanometre AMD APU with 8 Steamroller Cores and abuilt in 8000 or even 9000 series Radeon?!

That is one of the few things to make my legs go weak while salivating so much Homer Simpson would be buying a bloody boat!!! LMAO!

Right I think that is far more than enough posts about Ubuntu...now onto something else for a change lol.

UBUNTU 12.04 FAILS IN DIFFERENT WAY

SIIIIIGH!!!!

Right I am not typing it all out again but I can tell you I was so disgusted at the utter crap I have been trying to sort out that I have now emailed THREE companies over it and they are...

Computer Active Magazine

Who obviously knew not a dman thing about Ubuntu having difficulties with AMD Graphics Cards which means bad journalism.

AMD

For their abysmal DRIVER SUPPORT for Linux OS and...

UBUNTU

Because their OS seems to fall over at the slightest thing and then fails to boot up at all.

So here for anyone that is interested the email I sent, same for all three, I have copy and pasted below.

The reason I emailed them is that I think Microsoft are finally going to lose the plot, after a nice Windows 7 there is now the rubbish Windows 8 and they are running after the tablet market so PC OS going to get worse.

That leaves two options...

LINUX ... OH DEAR and...

ooh shuddering at the thought...

APPLE?!?!

That really worries me, it really does. I always thought, hoped that Linux would get onto an equal footing with Windows one day but for the PC to survive, I cannot believe I just typed that, it has to be first and foremost damned easy to set up!!

Windows, despite its flaws, has got easier and easier each time but admittedly I have skipped certain versions over the years. Two of these would be Windows 98 ME and Vista. Hmm was it ME or SE I cannot remember now.

 I installed beta versions of Windows 98, or one of them, Windows 2000 and Windows XP and used NT 4.0 too.

The most annoying of those was XP and its refusal to communicate with MODEMS so no Internet. never thought it could be worse than that in all honesty and I MEAN THAT! LMAO!

Such a shame I really liked the look and feel of Ubuntu!

THE EMAIL:

Dear Sirs

UBUNTU 1.04 LTS (Delivered to AMD, Ubuntu & Computer Active Magazine)

I have been a long admirer of the Linux OS and first had a run in with it when I dual booted Red Hat back in 1998 with Windows 2000, I think it was, while at Middlesex University studying for a BSc Applied Computing Single Honours Degree.

After eventually abandoning the Linux platform I told many fellow students it would be 15 years before a Linux Operating System could even hope to achieve to take anything away from Microsoft and it's Windows platform... quite unfortunately.

That was 15 years ago and I had been hearing that the Linux OS had come along in leaps and bounds since those days long since past. Today I have a whole series of blogs on different subjects and one of these is computing involving software and hardware.

Many years ago I set up one of the first SLI systems and completed this before Custom PC Magazine did a feature on how to do it, along with how hard it was. I also did a Raid 0 using two WD Raptors and a Raid 1 using two Hitachi drives. That system cost £3,500 GBP.

On my blog someone who had become a friend suggested that I go over to Ubuntu as it was a great OS and I had heard many things about it.

I ended up with a Computer Active Magazine Special on How To's and ended up downloading Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

Well I can honestly say that I have spent four days attempting to sort this OS out and it is the most abysmal time I have EVER had the misfortune to spend with ANY piece of software EVER and I started with computers by owning a Commodore VIC-20 when I was a kid, when everyone else owned Spectrums.

First Installation...

Laboriously Slow

Took forever to download anything

Took even longer to install anything

Stated it had downloaded and installed AMD Graphics Drivers when it had not

Lost functionality of the separate Desktop screens and would not let me drag windows to other screens after the failed AMD driver install, though it told me it was being USED it was not.

Windows kept locking up and freezing for twenty seconds to a minute before control had been given back to me.

When I tried to sort out the issue from the advice on Ubuntu forums many solutions either did not work or where extremely and unnecessarily lengthy and when I chose one it then refused to boot up at all?!

I then later discovered there was a problem with the ATI drivers but nowhere was I warned about this either from Ubuntu nor AMD or indeed Computer Active Magazine, in fact the latter clearly stated in their Magazine that the only problems reported was Windows 8 and as over half the computers in the world have AMD Radeon Graphics installed I FAIL to see how this can be the case. REALLY BAD journalism that is but then that is rife today and the main reason I no longer buy Custom PC Magazine!

I also read that this 12.04 LTS version is supposed to be wonderful and two other versions were listed as catastrophes and I thought thank bloody god I did not attempt to install the others then?!?!

I then decided to un-install it and get that 18.8GB section of my hard drive back only there wasNO CLEAR WAY to un-install it?!?! I then decided that I do not like being beaten and that maybe I just reid to do too many things at the same time and should have installed the proprietary drivers methodically and one at a time. So I decided to have a go at re-installing Ubuntu only now it stated that I could not do this either?!

I then noticed that my hard drive's missing space was back and wondered if a reboot was needed and sure enough everything was back to normal. So I ran the Wubi executable again gave it 25GB this time around and re-installed Ubuntu. This time I patiently waited to install the broadcom driver, which now kept failing several times so I left it alone while downloading the AMD graphics drivers AGAIN. After this was finished I then tried to re-install the broadcom drivers again and this time it was successful?!

Second Installation

I gave that another go as I recalled on the first installation that error messages were coming up stating things had FAILED to install and when the 'OK' button was pressed I had a window with a progress bar informing me that this was STILL continuing and then successfully installed?!

Bloody madness!!!

This time the AMD drivers seem to install correctly and I was relieved that after three days at trying to get this fabulous Ubuntu to install I had finally achieved it...

Only when I booted up I receieved a message to tell me that my graphics chips were not recognised correctly and then gave me options of

Using back up configuration [DID NOT WORK]

Using Low Graphics Configuration [EXITED TO BLACK SCREEN AND FROZE?!]

A series of other options all of which did nothing except return to the same dialogue window when clicked except for start up errors which showed a small blank window and the log, which to me did nothing except produce a bunch of code I am not familiar with and could not check via the Internet as I was stuck on this dialogue box.

So for the second time I found myself with a Linux OS that REFUSED to boot up?!?! IN THREE DAYS?!?!

I have NEVER taken any notice of the naysayers preaching about the demise of the PC but in all honesty what with Windows 8 and that Steve Bullmer leaping about stages screaming like a demented Chimpanzee and this abhorrent Ubuntu I now do fear for the PCs future.

Something I was very much looking forward to turned out to be three days of utter frustration and disappointment at both the state of things after 15 years and the bad reporting going on, or NOT as the case may be, in a number of magazines which now cost a small fortune to buy?!

Terrible...absolutely terrible state of affairs.

A real shame it really is...

ooh and if you was wondering about my hardware...

HP Pavilion DV7 Laptop

Radeon HD5470 & 4200 graphics

8GB RAM

No point listing anything else as all worked fine, even the WIFI with or without the Broadcom drivers but I suspect it was the drivers included in Ubuntu for this which rendered the OS to an absolute crawl! And I DO MEAN CRAWL!

Yours faithfully

Martin Haswell BSc

MUST BE (UBUNTU 12.04 LTS) BLOODY MAD?!

Right that was very odd. Turned out it needed a reboot to register that the partition, yep wrong Wubi bit, was gone and I realised when it showed I had 280 GB of space.

Only on reboot the dual boot partition is still there, but no big deal as you could, if you have this problem too, go into the BIOS and set time to '0' seconds. Or there is the fixboot option too.

There are a great many descriptions and answers given by people in the forums that seem to go 'right around the houses' to fix this problem and will be baffling and unnecessary to many.

I need my head examined as I have now decided to REINSTALL UBUNTU and have this really stupid idea that I did things in the WRONG order when I was first logged on the first time and...

...well my damned curiosity to get to the truth, it is another bloody puzzle Martin, and see if I am right has led me to go through it all AGAIN?!

LMAO!

Only THIS TIME I am going to do things VERY differently to what I did last time and think I made a mistake in treating it like a Windows install and should have been more...AWARE.

Did not help that I was unfamiliar with many Linux OS's either and I have had a play about and know what everything does and where it all is, well enough anyway, and now want to put my theory to the test.

So in case it goes wrong you might want to ignore the screaming and shouting in the next couple of posts as it is my own fault for having to do things right and refusing to be beaten by anyone or indeed ANYTHING!

LMFAO!

Hopefully I will get it right and then I can put on here the correct sequence to a nice Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install on iffy hardware, eh Hewlett Packard?!?!

LOL.

DO you all have ear plugs?! Hehehe.

WELCOME TO UBUNTU

Well I think I finally sorted the glitches out?!

Would not have been half as bad if a major part was not down to speed but I think I managed to fathom what that was. My WIFI driver of all things, grrr. Once I downloaded the Broadcom driver it improved things.

Oddly is states in the Additional Drivers I have the ATI driver but in the system type thing, ooh I cannot remember what it was called, it states the VESA or whatever it was?!

Oddly I have also LOST the ability to shrink the dock icons on the left ... DOCK and they have reverted back to the original size, when I had set them on the smallest.

Also there seems to be TWO, or just me, Catalyst Control Centres and if you run them it states it cannot find... ohhh wait a minute...lol...

COMING TO UBUNTU WITH HOPE

Right OK... a bit...weird.

Rebooted and then got the Additional Driver thing to look and find, AGAIN, the ATI driver. Started the Driver download and install, think linux calls everything a download, and it immediately came up fail.

only when I OK'd the box and it vanished I got a progress bar that was over half way through immediately?! So picking up where it left off from previous reboot then I take it?!

Oddly I did not do anything else on this occasion upon booting into Ubuntu and only concentrated in getting this driver in place. That now seems to have taken place and it is asking me to restart!

So provided there is a little more speed, less of the pregnant pauses and that fan idles down and stop cooking my thighs until they are raw I may have just man-handled Ubuntu into full submission?!

If only.

Right restart and see what happens...or goes FIZZ...POP!!

LMAO!

GLUTTON FOR UBUNTU OR JUST PUNISHMENT

Well I am BACK and logged onto Ubuntu.

Had a look around to see what I can. Tried to update a few drivers but that jockey thing kept telling it it crashed, even though I am told something I downloaded is there.

I have downloaded CONFIZCONFIG in the hope i can turn off V-Sync as that has reported problems on HP Laptops and it says it is installed despite a message stating jockey failed, I guess it was something else?!

It also seems to be updating this through the Updates Manager and hopefully something in there might make a difference. Seems a little better and not freezing up as much, which is weird. My bloody thighs are being cooked though! Now to find this config utility program and get into some graphics settings?!

Right let me see if I can mess around for awhile and see how the land lies so to speak.

COMING TO UBUNTU 2

Three more videos of my attempting to work with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ....

ALTERNATE WINDOWS GAZE INTO THE FUTURE

Well I forgot to add something to the last post and thought of some more points to make.

I do not like Windows 8.

It seems from something I was reading neither do Valve?!

I had though after all this time that I would finally have to make the leap over to a Linux Operating System and that as it had been 15 years since my last skirmish, and believe me it WAS, with Red Hat that now things would have been greatly improved.

So imagine my utter shock when what should have been a pleasurable experience taking minutes has turned my grey and taken 24 hours only to hit a brick wall?!

I would not mind but this. it turns out, was the brilliant and stable version out of three when the other two were referred to as catastrophes?!

WORRYING!

I also thought that Microsoft would meander off in other directions now and from what I read, WINDOWS BLUE, this certainly looks to be the case.

It is also of concern that they obviously do not care otherwise Valve would not have got as far as releasing Steam for the Linux OS!

Well I can say for certain that I know damn well what Steve Bullmer is doing and that is what he always does goes where the scent of money is. Only on THIS occasion it is going to backfire and in all honesty it will be down to one thing and one thing only that decides if Microsoft will still exist in its current form, Steve Bullmers madman antic aside....

...that is the NEXT XBOX?! (the 720?! ZBOX?! XBOX NEXT?! NEXTBOX?!)

They are going after the tablet market and smart phone market but in all honesty they have pretty stiff competition that is already established and STRONGLY in an industry that is a passing phase and will drop of considerably in time. Before people start saying nooo I did not say disappear I said drop off. Just like PHONES DID, just like SMART PHONES DID, just like iPhones now have and just like ,COM!

Cannot see the business for the money!! LMAO!

Yes that makes sense, leave an industry behind that you had tied up for years but losing your marbles with it of late and go sprinting, remember Microsoft's SIZE, after something else others have become establish in and have a firm foothold because you think theirs cash to be made and/or you just want to destroy any competition you see as a threat to your dwindling market share?!

Mr Bullmer that is just not going to happen!

Now while they were pre-occupied doing this Linux could have swooped in from the skies taking all in its path! Well not on what I saw in the last 24 hours I am afraid and what with this laptop not exactly new or state of the art that is worrying!

Fifteen years ago if you even have brief thoughts about Linux you had better hope nothing in your hardware we less than a year old. Less than 6 months and you had better forget it.

AMD Phenom X3 1.8 GHZ
AMD Radeon HD 5470M & HD 4200 Graphics chips
8 GB RAM Memory

The sound was fine and to be honest there were NO graphical issues so not quite sure WHAT was going on and WHY it failed to do so many things...

...but this laptop I bought over a year ago, was not by any stretch the fastest available and ex demo that had been there a fair old while.

Ubuntu should have, and I fully expected it to, been moving so fast that time would appear to be going BACKWARDS?!

Unfortunately it did not! :(

NOW! While I was typing and posting both the last post and now this one my videos of what was happening, DUMB-ASS, I mean NOT HAPPENING are being uploaded to my YouTube account. This curious to see what was going on, puzzle solvers like me, can go and have a look see when they are done, likely tomorrow.

As much as I love puzzles I do not have the patience I once had to sit around for days on end figuring this one out. I have far too money other things going on to boot but that IS slowly changing.

So for now the videos are up for your enjoyment or curiosity and Ubuntu will sit there on my hard drive with the static gathering dust on that portion of the spinning discs, lol.

Well unless I come across or it occurs to me out of the blue (which does happen from time to time) how to fix it?!

BU-BYE UBUNTU IT WAS NOT NICE KNOWING YOU

Oh my god ... that was the most excruciating 24 hours of my life I can EVER recall?!

Madness! Well I gave up filming and it turned out I had lost track of how many videos I did and I have also MISLAID some of the parts as they are in the UBUNTU section of my hard drive and I cut and past videos to free up the memory on the SD Card.

I have used and always did for years all the betas of Windows from Windows 95 up until Windows 2000 and possibly beyond that but since XP I have not bothered.

Now up until now, save to odd blue screens of death which were rare for me I have to admit the most infuriating the a new OS did was actually Windows XP and I DID NOT EVEN OWN THE DAMN THING?! LOL.

You may realise that from that statement I was referring to the official full release version where Microsoft made, what is no matter WHAT you or they say, an terrible school boy blunder as on release I think everyone I know that had it with a new computer it turned out they could NOT GET ON THE INTERNET. It refused to talk to the supplied MODEM?!

It was, it turned out, to be something really stupid and i even dated a woman when her friend at a works do said to me "This is Susan she has a problem with her new computer and i wondered if you could help?" and this was at Land Rover!

"Let me guess..." I said before she could speak "...you cannot get on the Internet?" Wide eyed and open mouthed she said "how the hell did you know that?! Tony did you tell him?" whereas he replied "No, I told yo he was good?!" when the reality was I had heard it so many times and from EVERYONE I knew or even did not know that had just bought a computer with Windows XP installed on it. I am amazed at how many PC suppliers failed to realise there was a problem before shipping them out?!

I went round with a floppy disk and Sue, looking like a blond Susan Sarandon that made my eyes water in desire, went off to put the kettle on. On her return to my seated position at her computer desk she continued to tell me the problem when she suddenly stopped and said "Wait a minute! YOU HAVE A WEBPAGE UP?!?!" to which I said "I KNOW" and she said "but you did that in the time I went and put the kettle on?!" and it turned out that my work colleague Tony had a mate who was supposed to be a computer nerd and he had spent 5 whole nights round there and gave up?!

We ended up dating, albeit very briefly and it was a little odd for me in all honesty and that was that.

I am afraid to say Ubuntu 12.04, the one NOT referred to as a CATASTROPHE, was a CATASTROPHE!

Now you either need one of two things here...

1) Another 5 years... and /or

2) A FAIR REDUCTION IN CHEFS?!?!