Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Software Bugs Abound

I just reloaded my work laptop with Ubuntu 9.10.  For the most part, I love it.  It's done well on most everything I've thrown at it.  However, this afternoon I ran into a few issues.  As usual, the problems came fast and furious while I was trying to get some important things done.  The first issue I had was with the vpnc Network Manager integration.  After installing and inputting my information, it began giving me an error about missing some keys.  After a little bit of research on the web, (more than I wanted to do when I was trying to hit a deadline), I discovered that a few people had their problems resolved after a reboot.  I gave it a shot, and it works great.  Then, I needed to check my email on a vmware server 2 installation at work, so I put the address into the bar and....Nothing.  After several tries, I noticed a ton of errors in the error console.  Some more unwanted searching resulted in finding out the VMWare Server 2 doesn't support Firefox 3.5, or at least didn't in the version of VMWare Server that I was running.  More updates.  When it rains, it pours.  Hopefully I can get things figured out so that I can get down to business.