Been having some weird problems with Ubuntu on my main workstation... I want to blame NVIDIA, but I'm not sure. After about 21-30 hours of uptime compiz invariably goes wonky and starts eating CPU like crazy and is just unusable. I can switch back to metacity and then switch to compiz, but it's still wonked until a reboot. I can use metacity, but then for some reason the keyboard input is not quite right; there's a delay and every 80th keystroke or so is dropped. Ugh.
So I thought I might be able to save some time instead of having to reboot every day and clear out all my work by booting back into Vista and just using Ubuntu in a VM, which is more likely to work okay without the NVIDIA drivers. And it does, except for the fact that I can only use one processor core because I bought the wrong dang quad core. And things run a bit more slowly under virtualization anyway so my unit tests take 20 seconds to run instead of 7, which is annoying, but OK.
But then I realized the Vista install was woefully out of date and probably already pwnt by some 12-year-old hacker. I have clicked "Install Updates" and rebooted exactly 12 times, solved some annoying problems preventing SP1 from installing, and been generally unproductive all afternoon, but still haven't managed to get past January 2009 in terms of the updates. And, I think there is still yet another service pack to install.
Haha, maybe I should have just stuck with the raw Ubuntu.
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