Rain, politics, Hardy etc...

Down here in Las Terrenas, we have had some heavy rain... Big showers, for about 40 mn, and then humid sunshine...

Yesterday afternoon, there was a rock-concert on the beach. What a change from the "boring" merengue music :)

Here in Dominican Republic, we will have the presidential elections in less than 3 weeks. The campaign has been idiotic, no debate whatsoever about anything, just finger-pointing towards each other's corruption... Leonel will have another 4 years, as most are not too keen to see PRD back in the Palace...

The week-end has passed and I still enjoy my spanking new Hardy desktop... I feel a bit of a traitor to my newfound love, Debian, but for the time being, this Ubuntu release wors for me.

As stated before, there are annoyances, such as the inability to give a static IP... Or the crashing Nvidia drivers (closed source...) but I trust those issues will gradually be reduced through the updates from now until july, when Canonical issue the "stable" 8.04.1 iso...

I am very glad I came back to a 32bit OS (on my amd64 Sempron cpu)... No exotic 32bits stuff in a 64bit environment... Sounds healthier... I was so disapointed when I had to finally gave up my Debian Testing amd64 system after upgrading from Debian Etch, because of those funny libs needed to run Skype 32bit in amd64... Even when I eventually go back to Debian Lenny, I'll happily go for an i386 iso, unless Skype releases a 64bit Skype !

Fernand was telling me about downgrading Firefox to 2.x from 3.x. Actually, much to my surprise, I haven't encountered any unstability with FF3... I guess it is because I didn't installed Adobe Flash, but SWFDEC... So far it seems to be working ok, I have to give it some time. I would have gone for Gnash otherwise, as it performs just fine on y Mac iBook G3 PPC, with Debian Testing on it...

Lots of work and things to do this week for me in my "regular life".... We'll se how it shall go...