Favorite Week of the Year (2009)

This week is my favorite week of the year. The weather's nice & cool, the trees are changing colors, and Halloween is at the end of it and that decor abounds! =)

This week this year is going to be great because I'm going to buy a new desktop computer & a 20" flat-panel LCD monitor (for a good price too). I may need to upgrade the gfx card, but there's no rush on that (the only game I've been playing in months is WoW, you know).
I already ordered a nice new keyboard: the Saitek Eclipse II -- it's LED illuminated. B-)

And I just discovered that the new version of Ubuntu (9.10, which is released Thursday) supports my current laptop's wireless card! So I installed it over the old Ubuntu version I was dual-booting with. If I can get Photoshop CS4 and WoW to run in Linux under W.I.N.E. then I won't have any need for Windows... 7 or otherwise. ;P
I downloaded the 9.10 beta official .iso and burned it to a CD. Then I did a live boot from the CD to boot up into the OS to see what's new. It detected the gfx card settings and wireless automatically -- previous versions of Ubuntu weren't off-the-bat compatible with the Intel integrated gfx cards (ugh) and needed heavy tweaking to get the GUI up and running correctly. And a separate wireless program was needed to get the wireless card to work, and the set back with that program was that it didn't allow all cards to connect if the network has WEP on it. Guess what... yeah. :-/
All that's changed. =)
Now come Thurdsay all I'll have to do is automatically apply the updates and I'll have the full hot new version. Of course, I won't be caring much about this laptop, as I'll have a shiny new desktop replacing it. ^_^