Guitarist and electronic programmer, pete has worked with a number of different groups such as Delimiter, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Negative Charge. Lead programmer & sysadmin of cytoplastik.com, as well as a few others..   discography: Crystal Cloud (2001) Cytoplastik Pods Compilation (2002)
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I installed feisty fawn, herd 4 on my laptop today. Feisty Fawn is the latest edition of ubuntu. Ubuntu is a distribution of linux that is very popular for the desktop PC. Anyway, I had to plug in the network cable because, out of the box, my wireless network card (broadcom something or other) is not supported at all under Feisty because it loads the damn bcm43xx driver, which does not support my card and I always have to uninstall that driver with a fresh install of linux. Also, I could not install "ndiswrapper" from the apt-get in feisty. The sources do not compile. So you have to get the latest ndiswrapper sources from the sourceforge site. ndiswrapper allows you to install windows drivers for network cards under linux. I have to do this because broadcom are a bunch of butt eating retards that do not make linux drivers. So I finally get the source, compile it, install the driver and I unplug the network cable. Boom. My laptop turns off. I was a bit perplexed. And so a little later I have pretty much determined that the power supply for the laptop has short circuited or something. When the laptop is plugged in it does not have a power light indicator. On top of that the power supply itself now smells terrible. It's that burnt circuit board smell. It's slightly sweet intoxicating smell, but at the same time incredibly nausiating. I'm really pissed off about this. The battery was already almost completely shot anyway so I have no way to test if the laptop motherboard is dead. That would make me very, very unhappy. So, I have gone ahead and ordered another power supply off of ebay to test my machine, and it will hopefully be here sometime next week.
Fuck you ubuntu
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