{"id":65,"date":"2007-07-26T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T15:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/26\/its-fiesty\/"},"modified":"2007-07-26T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T15:55:47","slug":"its-fiesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/26\/its-fiesty\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Fiesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted from a native install of Ubuntu&#8217;s Fiesty Fawn on my new 160 GB drive. I&#8217;ve left room to copy over the contents of the old drive (e.g., Windows), but I think Ubuntu&#8217;s going to become my primary OS.<\/p>\n<p>I still have lots of work to do, but here are some starting thoughts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>The install is ludicrously easy. I &#8216;had&#8217; to do the partitions by hand, but maybe that&#8217;s because it was a virgin unformatted hard drive&#8230;<\/li>\n    <li>It named the computer n1zyy-laptop, which I accepted without thinking much of it at the time. As it was beginning to install, it occurred to me that I&#8217;d never indicated that it was a laptop. It&#8217;s not surprising that it&#8217;s able to detect it&#8217;s running on a laptop, but it <em>is<\/em> surprising that it&#8217;s so well-integrated that it can use that information in places like setting a hostname. It&#8217;s the little things that count, IMHO, and I give them a lot of credit for this one.<\/li>\n    <li>Less than an hour ago, I had just installed the hard drive and inserted the Ubuntu CD. I&#8217;m now posting from a complete install, over wireless, having installed some third-party updates by hand and letting Ubuntu download 99 software updates. (They&#8217;re all installed, BTW.)<\/li>\n    <li>It took me a while to get wireless working, but it was mostly my fault.\n<ul>\n    <li>It automatically detected my network card, and warned me that the only drivers available were proprietary ones, and that they couldn&#8217;t make any guarantees about their quality.<\/li>\n    <li>I clicked on &#8220;Network&#8221; and it was set for &#8220;Roaming mode,&#8221; which I unchecked. It looked like I had to manually input all my information, but it turns out that it showed a drop-down box and I was just oblivious to it. I gave it my WEP key and&#8230; Nothing.<\/li>\n    <li>DHCP doesn&#8217;t work. I don&#8217;t get it. It works fine on other computers, but it&#8217;s not like we have some unusual DHCP setup going on. I just used a manual configuration and all was well. It somehow got the DNS servers from our DHCP server anyway, but not an IP.<\/li>\n    <li>The default mouse speed is really, really fast. At least coming from Windows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted from a native install of Ubuntu&#8217;s Fiesty Fawn on my new 160 GB drive. I&#8217;ve left room to copy over the contents of the old drive (e.g., Windows), but I think Ubuntu&#8217;s going to become my primary OS. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/26\/its-fiesty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}