Oops

I was completely wrapped up in labwork last week, and forgot to pick up tickets to go see former President Clinton today! But it’s not like I haven’t seen him talk before. So it’s no big loss. And even though I’m a bit of a political junkie, I feel that my labwork is more important.

Additionally, I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn on my desktop! That computer has been sort-of defunct for over a year. Ubuntu breathed new life into it! Yay! The only problem is that the wireless card in the desktop sucks, and I lose the internet rather quickly—the longest lifetime I’ve seen is 1 hour. It’s not like the signal is bad where the computer is, I’m writing this on my laptop, right next to my desktop.

Getting my desktop working got me thinking about the things that I haven’t gotten to work on my laptop. For some reason, I can’t use a key combinations with my windows key—Gnome’s keyboard shortcuts read the windows key as a bindable key (and not something I can use as a modifier). Additionally, the function keys don’t work either. Fn-F2 should mute, Fn-F3 lowers volume, etc. Oddly, when running the Ubuntu install/LiveCD on my laptop , everything works. But not in my configuration of Debian. I’m not sure what it is that is set differently.