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The AC adapter that fits my HP Pavilion dv6k packed it in yesterday. It was a cheap-o multi adapter which reeled in the cords to save space. This seemingly handy feature doomed the thin cords to a hard life of wear-and-tear, and an early death from friction. So, for the moment, back to the good, old, Acer Aspire 533, which has been sitting in the storage locker and ... malfunctioning. Hardware-wise the left click had stopped working. OS-wise, Xubuntu 12.10 had lost window decorations -- you know, Close buttons-'n-stuff.

So, booting off the Ubuntu 12.04 live stick I always seem to have (I should force myself to try Linux Mint for more than three hours, right?), I was checking my blog, and  installing. The public WiFi only cut out once (how many language packs does Ubuntu install?). Then almost by reflex in the Terminal, I sudo apt-got busy:

Post-install install:

• Gnome-panel (bye-bye Unity)


• Synapse (semantic launchers rule!)


• The GIMP 2.8 (how else to crop the photos on this blog?)


• qBittorrent 3.0 (It's a free country, and Bittorrent helps keep it that way!)


• Blogilo (a KDE offline blog editor. The best Linux can do, I think)

[caption id="attachment_1150" align="alignleft" width="233"] After the 15-inch HP, the Acer's screen is tiny -- better click the image.[/caption]

I also disable the overlay scroll bars (Ick!), and toggle mounted volumes and trash on the Desktop (I like the Apple-flavoured Ubuntu best).

After I get a new trailer, I'll save up and get a new multi-adapter for the HP, just so I can discover that the power supply is also kacked, but in the meantime, I want my Internet.

The "Standby" image is from here.