Mood Music

[liadnan]

When I was back in London last weekend I managed, in between the hangovers and the sleep deprivation, to find time to change my OS (for those who care, from Mandriva 2006, which isn't as good as its predecessors, at least so far as my needs are concerned, to Ubuntu, which seems fine). Rather than try and be clever I decided to do a complete wipe and clean install, backing up everything of course.

And so I did, and everything went perfectly fine. And then my colleague looked in and said "drink", and off we trotted to the Seven Stars for a while. Until I realised I was cutting it fine for Victoria-Gatwick Ex-checkin an hour before, you know the drill, so off I rushed, grabbed my bags from my office and off I went.

Without the pile of CD backups.

So far as work is concerned, that's fine, if necessary I have access to copies of that stuff by another route. What is missing is all the music I ripped to the computer when I came out here.

And so, for the present, I'm stuck with two CDs: a decentish recording of Mahlers 1&2, which at least has some mileage. And, err.. um. Culturniks of a certain vintage may be able to guess what the other one is. An album of seminal importance...

"I'm a Barbie Girl...."

Comments

[liadnan]

Pish and tush. They're vastly under-rated.

(Am afraid I'm going to delte your comment because of use of my real name... no worries, just paranoia on my part)

[hano.livejournal.com]

My apologies mate, wasn't thinking. I appreciate that the professional and personal consequences of being associated with said cultural artifact could be very severe indeed.

[liadnan]

Hah.
I once had to explain to PM that certain things said in jest the morning after Glastonbury on the list, which is after all closed were not really suited for saving for posterity on the open and googleable quotefile.. I'm sure I can live with the opprobium of Acqua.

[hano.livejournal.com]

he he, I remember it :-)
While I think of it, you wouldn't know any decent probate solicitors in Oxford would you? Going through my father's estate is a real hall of mirrors.

[liadnan]

Henmans, (as in Tim, as it happens) aren't bad. I think someone said Steen & Co are ok. Wilsons. Google on the names and "Oxford" and you should hit the websites.

[liadnan]

Oh, and Morgan Cole.

[hano.livejournal.com]

cheers for that, exactly what I needed. For that, I shall overlook your 'unusual' taste in music.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

"Calling Dr Jones!"

[liadnan]

Video to that is one of my favourites.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Only because it was one of the first to come on the CD-single.

My sister bought it. Honest.

[kethar.livejournal.com]

That or Roses are Red is my favorite on it. Never can decide when I'm in the mood to listen to it.

-ken-

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

You know, I hadn't figured you for an Aqua guy. But it's all good.

[liadnan]

I am a man of mystery and taste.
Possibly.

[eccles.livejournal.com]

Only one of these is true!

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Heh.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, I just listened to Barbie Girl. :)

Most of my friends look at me with sneers when they realise I like Aqua. However, I have noticed that they all seem to know the words to at least one song..

[liadnan]

It's everyone's hidden secret. Like Abba. Only less good, to be honest.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Aqua are much better than Abba! I say that mostly because I don't like Abba at all, not even secretly.

[kittenexploring.livejournal.com]

Mahler is nice but you could just get by with Barbie Girl looping for the next few weeks. You might want to try Dr Jones for a week or two, for variety, before switching back to Barbie Girl.

[(Anonymous)]

Ubuntu is good, we've been using it at work for the past year, on servers and desktops.

[susumu.livejournal.com]

The video for Ubuntu wasn't that hot though.

[badgerolove.livejournal.com]

Ah, Aqua. I remember seeing them live at the Disney Channel Kids Awards way back in 2000. What a show! Also featuring S Club 7 and Cartoons. Hope you are well in fine far off Jersey. I'm great mates with the Chief Officer of the Channel Islands these days. Or rather, I get drunk with him occasionally at assessment centres.

[liadnan]

Same difference innit?
Am good but looking forward to coming home in a month

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hypatia_/]

How did you find the Ubuntu install? I run Debian but let the kids put SuSE on their dual booters as it has a child friendly install and recognises all their peripherals out of the box without getting extra drivers etc. I've seen Ubuntu install, it looks pretty and gui and stuff so did it just slot in, recognise fairly new hardware and cope with all your peripherals?? I don't dislike SuSE, its perfectly nice as a desktop but if I can achieve the same with Debian underpinnings I'd prefer it that way.

The leaving of the music is a bit traumatic. Do you have fatband in Jersey for access to alternate home networks?

[liadnan]

I have no-band in Jersey, save for at work. I do possess a usb-wireless thingy, but I didn't have time to make it work properly. I have however, discovered a sekrit stash of Beethoven Late Quartets and Mozart Requiem, misplaced in the wallet of OS/driver/application cd-roms.

Ubuntu install: I didn't have to do anything intelligent at all. I was feared I would, after being used to the Mandrake setup, which was also "insert cd, switch computer on, make coffee" but no, nothing at all.

I haven't played around with the default application setup really (the point of the exercise was simply to take the plunge at a time when it isn't that important I have a useable laptop) but everything seems quite straightforward so far as I can see.

[liadnan]

(Just to clarify, the only hardware, built in or peripheral, it wasn't happy with, was the USB wireless dongle. And I've found a step by step guide on the wiki about how to deal with this. It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo laptop)