She says "horror badger bat bite!"

The new laptop has arrived! Packed in a very nice lightweight Dell bag. It's another N410c. P-III 1.2 GHz (old was 1 GHz), 512MB memory (old was 768MB; I'll move the DIMM some time), 30 GB hard disk (old was 20 GB). The screen has two bad dints that shine bright; if they get too annoying I can change the screen. The left mouse button needs a bit of attention too. But I'm still very pleased.

I've installed the complete Breezy Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu package sets and set it to boot to kdm defaulting to KDE. (Though Xfce's theme is so cute and I might put it on the 560X.) I'm playing my Durutti Column collection on it as I write this and redcountess and arkady try to work out Gaelic and Celtic words with an electrical feel to name a cyberpunk elf doll with.

I did have a bit of fun getting it installed. I wanted to try a Dapper Drake preview, because I figured my whining about Ubuntu's fit and finish would be 100% more likely to have any effect if I worked to report a bucketload of bugs before the release. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to want to work with my wifi card (NetComm NP5430, Prism GT ISL3890 chipset). I tried the Kubuntu Dapper 20060309 daily ISO and the card worked on install, but not on reboot. Then I tried Breezy then dist-upgrade, and that didn't work on reboot either. I suppose I should write a proper bug report.

I'm much better today than yesterday and might even be fit for B-Movie tomorrow, but a rest might be a better idea.