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Dem Annoying Upgrade Blues
So last week, I took the plunge and upgraded the venerable Sardonicus
to Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. Overall, it seems fairly stable. KDE4
has a few differences that produce a bit of cognitave dissonance.
The biggest problem I have is that some applications I'd come to
rely on have simply dissappeared.
Microsoft touts "Life Without Walls"... again
Don't they ever learn? Microsoft's latest marketing pitch, "Life Without Walls",
pushes seamless integration between the desktop, the laptop, the handheld/smartphone
and... the web. That's just the wrong idea.
The Forever Scan
I have to remember to update and scan my laptop more often. When it's been a few months,
the reboots and scan take forever! Note to self: clean out the Cygwin download cache
first. AVG takes a looong time to scan all those .tgz files!
What's the deal with ABC's HD feed?
I cannot believe I'm the only one seeing this. When watching ABC's HD programs (primarily news
broadcasts), some of the commercials are missing a part of the soundtrack. The background
sounds and music are there, but the primary vocal is gone. It's not my TV. I hear
the same problem in the digital audio output directly from the cable box. And if I
switch to the analog channel, the soundtrack is normal.
I've tried Googling and come up empty. It appears as though the center channel has been stripped from the 5.1 audio track. Annoying as hell, and curiously it was mostly pharmaceutical ads that were affected. Now today, it's over half the spots broadcast. Hasn't anyone else noticed this?
