I *do* have a boring voice

Yes, I do have a boring voice, and I sometimes umm and arr, especially when recording the podcast.

But that's no reason to actually attack me in public on your blog. You must have a lot of built-up angerm, and I thought your last two statements were a bit childish (as were your opinions on the people who had replied to the "Save the PowerPC Port" message).

Putting a trackback on one of our blog posts, so our listeners can see it, just makes the insult worse.

In other news, Josh somehow borked his Ubuntu install after trying to load Virtualbox. Oh, I'm sure he could have fixed it, but apparantly his installation wasn't in good shape anyway, so he did a complete reinstall of the system.

I've never understood how people can break Ubuntu so much unless they're doing something REALLY stupid with [i]sudo[/i] privileges. I've only messed up my user's permissions twice - once when installing Virtualbox, the other when I changed my computer's hostname. Both times I recovered from it without reinstalling. My Xorg.conf broke once, but I didn't cause that. And the first time I installed Ubuntu, I used the wrong mode and caused myself not to have any privileges, so I reinstalled - but I could have saved the install if I had a little more knowlege.

Also, I once filled up my disk on the iMac and couldn't log into Gnome, but uninstalling a couple of programs with Aptitude fixed that.

In total, I've only installed Ubuntu thrice. Twice on my iMac after that "wrong mode" thingy, and once on my x86. And believe me, I've fiddled; I've installed all sorts of tweaks and non-repo programs, quite a number of them from source. And there are little problems with my current install due to my fiddling - for instance, the Theme controls no longer work properly, and some directories within / have the wrong permissions. But it's nothing that would force a reinstall.

I've no idea what happened when Josh tried to install Virtualbox, except that I encouraged him to install it and told him how to put himself inside the correct group. I hope it was more "the straw that broke the camel's back" than a mistake that I'd made.