Cool. The IBM/Lenovo “HDAPS” (hard disk accelerometer) works under Edgy Eft out of the box. Just load the “hdaps” kernel module. If you apt-get install hdaps-utils you can run hdaps-gl and see the accelerometer in action. I’m fooling with an alarm system powered by that now. Cool stuff.

Well, I bit the bullet last night and upgraded the X60 (and the older FujiP) to Edgy Eft. The upgrade went perfectly, except both boxes got weirded out over the firestarter firewall package. Wasn’t a tremendously bad deal, all I had to do was remove firestarter and reinstall it, but still… oh well, at least I didn’t whiprush both boxes.

Got EVDO going on the new kernel as well, it was as easy as getting the source, copying the config from /boot into the kernel src directory, and running make modules. Then I stuck the new usbserial.ko module into the /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial directory, and it JustWorked(TM). I should probably package-ize that module, but I’m too lazy and overloaded to work on figuring that piece out right now. Feel free to grab my kernel module and do the same, if you’re running 2.6.17-10-generic. I used the same patch as last time if you want to build it yourself. Have fun!

I’m at my desk at work, and I open a run dialog and type “gksu ‘update-manager -c’”. I spin around to Kyle and say “When I hit enter, my machine will become Eft.” He replies with, “You mean “Efff’ed.”

Damn, it’s hard to work with punny people.

I aborted my upgrade to Edgy on the X60 - not for any reason other than slow internet speeds (either all the mirrors are getting hammered, or our bandwidth here @ work is saturated). I need the box this afternoon and can’t have it tied up.

Looks like the Firefox developers, in their infinite wisdom, moved the “close tab” widget from the right side of the tab bar (where it’s been FOREVER) to the right of each tab. Now you can close a tab just by clicking on its own close widget.

W.T.F.?!? This is the same retardedness that Safari demonstrates. If I wanted that, I’d buy a freaking Mac. Why would you move a widget that people have used hundreds of times a day, for years? Not only do I have to retrain myself, but if I have a shitload of tabs open then it’s potentiallly hard to hit the right widget.

Well, I don’t have to retrain myself, it seems that the FF devs included the old behavior there too, it’s just not enabled by default. If you go to about:config, select browser.tabs.closeButtons, set it to 3, and close the window, Firefox will pick up the old way of doing things. Too bad they didn’t make that the default… not all change is for the better.