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A day of untrammeled humor...
May. 1st, 2008 08:08 pmToday has been one of those dippy stay-away-from-your-computer days, which you realize is ongoing only after having been at your computer most of the day.
My first attempt to download the final version of the latest Ubuntu CD (v. 8.04) stopped for no reason after downloading just over 500MB. A second attempt gave up the ghost after downloading 520 MB when my browser suddenly died when I unplugged my MP3 player.
Said MP3 player - a Sansa e260 - used to connect to my VAIO with no problem, but now that I have an RMA number to send the player back and have the manufacturer address a flaky earphone jack, I'd like to wipe the content before I send for what will undoubtedly be a replacement. Today, when I plugged the unit in, suddenly XP decides I need something called an MTP driver, without which the only thing that happens while the e260 is connected via its USB cable is charging of the player's battery.
That, and maybe some kind of computer-y Rube Goldberg chain of events that crashes Firefox after having downloaded 90% of a CD image.
I've restarted my Ubuntu download, at the breath-stopping rate of about 16 kB per second, which means someone could tie a CD to the back of a chipmunk in Seattle and have it run to New York and I'd probably be greeting the little rodent before the download was complete. (I think I'm going to go try a torrent next time rather than attempt to link directly to a mirror. Life is too short.)
Cheers...
(UPDATE: Things may be turning around. I found a setting on the e260 to change USB mode, which I did, whereupon things now work the way I remember them working... though I am currently running from the VAIO's Linux partition, in the previous version of Ubuntu, which I fired up because BitComet froze when I started it up under Windows, which prompted me to shut XP down. Oh, bother...)
(UPDATE: Downloading directly from a site in Denmark is proceeding at about 400 kB per second.)
My first attempt to download the final version of the latest Ubuntu CD (v. 8.04) stopped for no reason after downloading just over 500MB. A second attempt gave up the ghost after downloading 520 MB when my browser suddenly died when I unplugged my MP3 player.
Said MP3 player - a Sansa e260 - used to connect to my VAIO with no problem, but now that I have an RMA number to send the player back and have the manufacturer address a flaky earphone jack, I'd like to wipe the content before I send for what will undoubtedly be a replacement. Today, when I plugged the unit in, suddenly XP decides I need something called an MTP driver, without which the only thing that happens while the e260 is connected via its USB cable is charging of the player's battery.
That, and maybe some kind of computer-y Rube Goldberg chain of events that crashes Firefox after having downloaded 90% of a CD image.
I've restarted my Ubuntu download, at the breath-stopping rate of about 16 kB per second, which means someone could tie a CD to the back of a chipmunk in Seattle and have it run to New York and I'd probably be greeting the little rodent before the download was complete. (I think I'm going to go try a torrent next time rather than attempt to link directly to a mirror. Life is too short.)
Cheers...
(UPDATE: Things may be turning around. I found a setting on the e260 to change USB mode, which I did, whereupon things now work the way I remember them working... though I am currently running from the VAIO's Linux partition, in the previous version of Ubuntu, which I fired up because BitComet froze when I started it up under Windows, which prompted me to shut XP down. Oh, bother...)
(UPDATE: Downloading directly from a site in Denmark is proceeding at about 400 kB per second.)
