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I upgraded to Alpha 3 today for kicks. sudo do-release-upgrade -d for the bold. I thought I’d share a little hiccup I had in the process.

dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 54937 package 'virtualbox-2.2':
error in Version string `2.2.4-47978_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character in revision number

I just fired up a txt editor, gksudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/available and took out the virtualbox-2.2 block that was left over from long ago and another virtualbox-3.0 block. Follow that up with a simple sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and it’s time to reboot for maverick!

Hope this helped you random googler who finds this.

I got an email back from Michael Bennet after I proposed he put forth a public option amendment to the health care bill.

“As you may know, I pushed to have as strong public option included in the reconciliation package. My position did not ultimately carry the day. And there were well intentioned people who wanted me and other strong proponents of the public option to amend the reconciliation bill to include a public option. I remain a strong proponent of the public option. Along with my colleagues in the Senate and House, I pushed continuously to include a public option in the reconciliation bill, and was very disappointed it was not included.

But offering an amendment would have jeopardized the entire reconciliation bill. Amending the reconciliation bill would have meant playing games with lives of thousands of Coloradoans and millions of Americans, and I refused to do it. No single amendment was adopted on this measure, because supporters of health care reform realized that reopening the package was playing right into the insurance companies’ hands. Opponents of the new law tried mightily to amend the package in their effort to kill it, but we stuck together and ultimately prevailed. I will continue to fight until we have our vote on a public option, but I refused to risk a much larger and groundbreaking health care reform package.”

But without offering full on single payer or even a public option amendment and by instead mandating health insurance, isn’t this just playing into insurance companies’ hands?

…I hope you lose in the primaries to Romanoff if this is your leadership.

Historically, the volume applet in Gnome was just that. It was it’s own applet. You added the sound control independently of any notification area or indicator applet. This was awesome! It was better than Windows. It was better than OS X. You could place the volume applet anywhere on the panel and, most importantly to me as someone who uses volume a lot, you could shove it to any of the four corners for easy mouse to a corner and scroll to adjust volume!

In Karmic, the volume applet was removed. It was sucked up by the notification area. You weren’t able to control the exact position where the volume control ended up as it could be pushed by other notification area applets whose order we have no control. This was less cool than previously, as you couldn’t go to a corner and scroll if you wanted to maximized Fitt’s law. At least in Karmic, we could find the volume, hover it, and scroll the wheel though so this had advantages over OS X and Windows.

Enter the suck! As of Beta 1 in Lucid, we have no exact control of the volume, it goes horizontally instead of vertically, and you can’t just hover it and scroll. You have to click the icon, then click and drag the slider. Suck!

http://ledazibao.free.fr/wallpaperfm/