Friday the 13th?

Hey guys,

Did anything happen to you yesterday - Friday the 13th?

As the day was considered a day of bad luck, I took extra care of everything in order not to get into any problem. But when I came back home, I was informed that the power supply had burnt away. I could not get anything done last night, other than watching the fantastic victory of the Netherlands against France.

Today I had to spend a few bucks to get the thing replaced. Fortunately enough, the mainboard did not suffer any damage.

2008.1 finally

Didn't want to reinstall the whole system from scratch, I have been trying to upgrade the old packages manually.

Things went fine until yesterday.

After a massive upgrade of more than 100 packages, I rebooted the system and found myself logging into the text mode. X server failed to start. Looking at the logs I found that a video driver module failed to load. Well, that's the worst situation you could get yourself involved in.

So I decided to take the risk and try updating my system using the installation CDs. The estimated time was more than 3 hours, but actually the packages were all upgraded in just an hour. In the end, I got an error claiming that some media.cfg file could not be found, but after rebooting everything went fine.

Finally I got my system up-to-date (hopefully) with minimal efforts. Now it's time to try out all the new features!