If you’ve just upgraded to Ubuntu Edgy and you want it to keep working, then you need to do the following:
$ cd /bin
$ sudo ln -fs bash sh
Why? Because some fruit decided that they’d go and change the default shell, ignoring the installed base of millions of shell scripts which require bash to work.
Sure, it’s arguable that all those scripts are broken, but I don’t freakin care, distros don’t get to take the high moral ground, they’re supposed to make things work for their users!
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Otherwise it seems like a nice release, lots of little improvements that make for a nice refresh, and pretty impressive only four months after Dapper – nice work Ubunteros!
Update:
And if your system randomly won’t boot depending on how many files you create and/or delete, it should be fixed in Edgy, though not in Dapper 
Posted by mike on Monday October 30th, 2006, tagged with linux, rants | comments disabled
So in case we didn’t have enough petrol guzzling, pedestrian killing SUVs out on the roads, Holden have decided to bring the Hummer H3 to Aussieifornia. Thanks Holden.
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Holden’s executive director of sales and marketing Alan Batey said the Hummer’s pedigree was ideally suited to Australia’s “diverse and challenging off-road environments”.
“The H3 is designed to deal with extreme conditions which local off-roaders enjoy and seek out.
“Given the H3′s midsize proportions, which are comparable to popular medium and large SUVs in Australia, it is equally at home on city and suburban roads.”
Uh huh. Diverse and challenging environments like getting Milk from the shop, sitting in traffic, and moving furniture around the suburbs. Glad we’ve got military grade vehicles coming to save us from these perils!
I probably wasn’t ever going to buy a Holden anyway, because they’re shit, but there’s no chance now.
Posted by mike on Friday October 27th, 2006, tagged with environment, rants | comments disabled
If you’ve been watching Movie Extra (only on cable I think), you might have spotted the increasingly famous John – formerly only famous for being my cousin Nad’s squeeze, he’s now one of the top 8 contestants on Project Greenlight!
You’re probably thinking "What’s Project Greenlight" right?
Project Greenlight is a filmmaking competition for aspiring writer/directors. Over 700 feature scripts have been whittled down to just 8, with the top 8 now going head to head for the opportunity to win 1 million dollars in film funding and theatrical release for their feature film. The competition is aired on Foxtel’s Movie Extra, and videos are available from the official website.
And perhaps "Why should I vote for John?":
Because he’d vote for you … and because he’s writer of the most original screenplay in the competition, ‘One Night in Canberra’. As the youngest contestant in the competition, and the only one from outside Sydney or Melbourne, John is dedicated to making a film thats different from the same old cliched ‘Aussie’ comedy. If you want an Australian film thats actually worth your fifteen bucks to see, then vote for John!
And I might add, because John’s script was so good that freakin Bud Tingwell appeared in his film! That’s Bud ‘The cool old Lawyer dude from the Castle’ Tingwell in case you’ve been living under a rock!
How do I vote for John?
From October 12 you can text ‘John’ to 1999 7222 (cost of text is 55c) or vote for free online here.
Posted by mike on Wednesday October 11th, 2006 | comments disabled
If you haven’t been reading xkcd, then you’re probably less confused than those of us who have.
But amongst the slightly odd, strangely humorous and just plain weird comics, there’s the odd gems.
Two of my favourites are this one, not just because of the pretty mountain, and this one which really struck a chord:
© xkcd.com
Posted by mike on Monday October 9th, 2006, tagged with funny, nerd | comments disabled
