Done yesterday (20111218 Su)

[mdlbear]

Gnomes ate my Sunday. Gnome 3, actually. Upgrading my old netbook to Ubuntu 11.04 had gone so well that I fooishly told Colleen that I'd upgrade hers "Sunday morning before [she] gets up." Yeah, right. There were three big flaws in this:

• Colleen's netbook is a Dell mini-10; Kat's is a mini-10v. Different video. It didn't correctly identify the screen size.
• So, based on the fact that Kat loved the shiny new Gnome 3 UI, I went ahead and upgraded to 11.10, and left it happily loading away while we went to brunch at El Torito (one of Kat's faves). When we got back I discovered that Colleen hated Gnome 3, and it still didn't recognize the screen size.
• After restoring gnome-panel for the old Gnome 2 UI, that's when I found out that the new mail program, Thunderbird, didn't automatically migrate her email from evolution. And that evolution, which was still around, crashed on startup.

So I dropped back to 11.04 which at least had a more familiar configuration (but still had the problem of evolution crashing), and did some frantic googling to find out how to install the proper video driver and which index files to blow away so that evolution could recreate them with the proper format. And, along the way, how to configure gnome-panel in Gnome 3 (which turns out to require alt-right-click to bring up the menus, instead of right-click). :P

Then I went to bed, because it was 11:30pm.

Much of the afternoon was taken up by a shopping trip with the Wolfling, mostly to REI (luggage and camping gear) and AT&T (getting her phone, which hasn't been charging properly, looked at). Also Fry's and Office Max, but they didn't have what I was looking for there. It was a lot of fun, though. We ended up getting Kat an REI membership of her own, to take advantage of the additional 30% discount (on one REI-logo item per member).

Despite the frustrations it was a pretty good day, and I greatly enjoyed having the whole family together. We're a weird bunch, and I like that.

1218 Su
  * up 7:40; W=196.6; drugs, nose, teeth, dishes, laundry
    % I seem to have been forgetting my morning dose of flonase recently
      wonder whether that's responsible for my recent congestion...
  * upgrade Colleen's netbook to 11.04
    * archive home and etc -> ~starport/Archive/colleen-hardy
    * repartition; move old/home/colleen to /home/old-colleen
    * install 11.04 - not entirely satisfactory.  doesn't get monitor specs.
  * brunch at El Torito
  * shopping with the Wolfling - Office Max, REI, Fry's (wipeout), AT&T device
    service center.  (Winchester, same shopping center as Honey Baked Hams)
    Decided not to get either of the REI bags.
  @ The Wordsmith's Forge - Rewarding Viciousness
  & tried upgrade to 11.10 in hopes of it recognizing the display.  Fail.
  & upgrade:  CRAP!  It's not migrating her email.  Fscked.
    Evolution is there, but crashes on startup.
    downgrading to 11.04 in hopes that evolution is still usable
    It may be necessary to drop back further and do a backup; that will
    require dropping /home back to ext3
  @ [ubuntu] 1366x768 screen ubuntu 11.04 on dell mini10 - Ubuntu Forums
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/emgd 
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install xorg-emgd emgd-dkms
    sudo emgd-xorg-conf
    reboot for the changes to take effect.
  @ Gnome Evolution - General - Error Importing 
    Remove the corresponding files with the file ending ".ev-summary" and 
    ".ibex.index", in this example you should remove the file 
    "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.ev-summary" and 
    "~/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox.idex.index". 
      * Restart evolution, it will be slow to come up because it recreates 
	the indexes. 
  @ UNetbootin - bootable USB stick from ISO .deb exists: untebootin
  @ How To Migrate From Evolution To Thunderbird In Ubuntu Intrepid 
  = ... and the trick for modifying the panel in 11.10 is to use
    alt-right-click to bring up the menu, instead of just right-click.  WHY?