…and Wearing of Sackloth, and Sprinkling of Ashes over the Head | Jaunty’s Out!

Well, when my laptop’s screen started to go, I should have listened.

Now, the vertical cluster of dead lines is three times as wide, completely filled in (instead of just being scattered), the top left quadrant of the screen is toast, and everything is substantially whiter (it was unusably white until I managed to run JScreenFix, which ameliorated the situation a bit).

So this laptop has moved from “kind of inconvenient to use” to “use as little as possible, until it can be turned into some kind of server, or desktop replacement.”

And, thankfully, I think I’m getting a secondhand replacement.

In other news, today is the day when Jaunty (aka Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”) came out! It looks really enticing–I’m a fan of both jauntiness and jackalopes (much more than ibeces, however intrepid they may be), and I’m also all about faster booting, Ext4, and that new notification deal. Speaking about the new notification deal, I think it’s going to solve a pet peeve of mine–left-clicking on the volume applet in the taskbar gives you a slider for volume, while right-clicking gives you the checkbox for muting. What’s more, if it’s muted, no sound will come out, no matter how high you raise the volume. It’s a minor complaint, but I’m looking forward to being able to control both from the same menu. Happy Release Day!

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Again, I apologize for any misspellings or typos–half of this is typed without the benefit of vision.

PS-I’m sorry if I scared you with the title (could an Ubuntu release ever be that bad?   .