There was nothing really note worthy in the news today. Well, Apple is going to Intel chips from PPC ones, which I think is an incredibly stupid move, but I did not and do not really feel like writing much on that. And Debian finally got sarge out the door, but I have known about that coming 2 weeks now or so. So I really did not have anything to write about today.
This weekend was incredibly busy. Nicholas graduated from PVI Sunday, and so we had lots (for us, though not as a percentage of the possible family) of family and friends around us all weekend. We had lots of fun, or at least I did.
Friday morning I woke up to the realization that after the last update Thursday, I was not just unable to start stuff in X in that X session, but at all. This was incredibly unacceptable. I toyed with trying to downgrade enough to get it to work, spending more time than I should have on it, but gave up, realizing it was beyond me. So I started a re-install back from Ubuntu, and then upgrading it to Debian again, except using the non-gcc4 amd64 repository. Gcc4 being the start of the troubles on my previous install. This is the second time I have used debian's, dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections to preserve the information on what packages are installed across an install. I am very pleased. By Saturday evening, yes, with the help of my dsl connection, but with very little interaction on my part, I am back up and running.