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Updating Ubuntu
Tibley Bobley Started conversation May 1, 2011
I installed the Ubuntu operating system on my laptop computer (with plenty of help from the lovely researchers over on Ask) on 8th March, so I've been using it for a couple of months. And I really like it. It takes a lot of annoyance (though I have to admit that I'm fairly easily annoyed) to provoke me into doing something that might inconvenience me and increase my level of irritation. Windows Vista achieved this "most annoying" status, and so had to go. All's been well since... until yesterday.
Ubuntu invited me to update it to version 11.4. First of all I said no - not wishing to invite possible annoyance. But then it invited me again and again... and this started to annoy me. So, of course, I gave in eventually and said yes. I was right. It was annoying! It took 9 hours! with my brother's middle of nowhere, narrow, broadband signal. I've set up the computer in my bedroom, because if I use it where my brother uses his computers, the cats keep strolling across the keyboard and curling up in it (must be nice and warm I suppose). But, now I find that the broadband signal is only detectable up this end of the house (like half a football field away from the router) if it's more-or-less in line-of-sight of the router, with all the doors open along the corridor and my bedroom door open. So if this 9 hour marathon isn't to be interrupted by cats hoofing it all over my computer keyboard and kneading it and rolling around on it trying to get comfortable, I have to find some way to keep them out/off. I put a chair on the table over the top of the computer and parked a load of bags and boxes around it. That worked.
Then, at about 1.30am, when it had finished, I tried the new version, which has a lot of changes - and looks a well worthwhile update - and the new version of Firefox wouldn't work. It made me a little grumpy. I came back prepared to do battle with it this morning, and guess what! It's working fine now and I didn't have to threaten it with a hammer, or anything
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