Gnome2 is really pretty and all, but since I installed it I've been bugging Greg for help nearly every day to get/keep stuff working. Yeah, I know, "That's life on the bleeding edge for you." But the reason I want to use Debian instead of Windows is because It Just Works. If the only way to get reasonably up-to-date software is to accept constant problems, I'm no better off than just using Windows.

So now begins the process of finding out what I'll need to hold to keep the nice font rendering, which was really the biggest seller for Gnome2, and let everything else up/down/side-grade itself as it wants.

Speaking of Gnome2, there are a lot of things I used to be able to do that I can't any more. Some they've just moved to new locations[1], but some I just can't find. For instance, when I click a mail link in Galeon, it doesn't have a handler associated with it. I thought I could just go into preferred applications and tell it to use Evolution for mail, but there's no option for it. I can't find it anywhere. If Gnome is going the way of "this is where you want to go today", I think it's time to look at KDE again.


[1] Since when is the screensaver an "advanced" config option?

I don't have /etc/apt/apt.conf but I do have /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf. And it has DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};. I know what that directive means, but why is it not in /etc/apt/apt.conf? And will I break anything by adding that file with the directive you gave?

Un-commented the "testing" lines from sources.list, added the "default-release" deirective to apt.conf and did an update/upgrade. Nothing broken yet.

And how would jabber help if you're not in the room? ;)

I remember (heh, irony^2) when my grandfather went through it. He was living with one of my aunts and her family. He would wake up in the middle of the night, not know where he was, and not recognize my uncle when he'd come down to try to get him back to bed. I can't imagine how scary that must be.