lpetersson

Ok, so far so good. I've managed to get most of the things I need sorted with the notable exceptions of World of Warcraft and VMWare.

World of Warcraft I can live without as I can just build a spare machine purely for the purpose of running WoW. That would be an annoyance, but nothing I can't live with...

Well, I have actually managed to install both WoW and the Burning Crusade expansion.

It's when trying to install the latest expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, that it all falls down.
It starts fine, but I can't click on the Agree button when I get to the EULA, and obviously that's a pretty big stumbling block...

The really big problem is VMWare.
Getting this one to work is absolutely vital to the success of Operation Jaunty Jackalope.

It seemed to install fine using the instructions in the manual, but when running the app I'm presented with an error and the application fails to load :-/
I obviously can't remember the error of the top of my head, but nevermind, I shall look into this later and hopefully find a resolution.

I'm currently about to install VMWare on a virtual host to see if it does the same thing.

Other than that, I have happily discovered Krusader which is great for general filesystem work although I really need to get into a habit of using the shell a bit more.
I am currently using Evolution for mail, which is adequate, but it would be nice to get Outlook working under Wine

Linux Day 1:

Last night I installed kUbuntu on Khaine, and it mostly went well.
A couple of snags were hit, but with the right blessings of the Omnissiah and incense to soothe the Machine's spirit all was soon well and I was booting into a new and strange Operating system.

Unlike last time I tried Ubuntu, Nvidia had provided a fairly simply way of enabling Dual-Monitor output. Getting it to save the configuration changes were a different matter as I had to run the program as root and there was no obvious way of doing that.
Coming from Windows I'm used to holding Shift + Right Clicking when I need to do something with elevated credentials.
Never mind though, ridding the galaxy of Xenos, Mutants and Heretics is a journey, not a destination and with the help of digitalangel I managed to overcome this obstacle as well.
Ok, that's an exaggeration, she told me step by step what to do :-D
A couple of reboots later, and Ubuntu is now stretched across two monitors.

A nice thing about Linux is of course the sheer amount of free software available and I was soon on MSN again courtesy of Pidgin.
I found a couple of Solitaire clients which I'll be trying out later ^_^
Firefox has all my usual add ons installed so the most important things have been taken care off.

Now we come to the 'To Do List' for the evening:
1) Install VMWare
2) Find an e-mail client that allows IMAP access to Hotmail
3) Figure out how to mount additional hard drives!!! (I may have solved this one...)
4) Figure out how to 'map'/connect to network shares so they are always there when I log in!!!
5) Find a decent WinAmp replacement
6) Find a good video player (I'm guessing VLC will be the choice here)
7) Go to the gym
8) Make a big tasty burger
9) Eat a big tasty burger
10) Paint either some Tau or a Razorback