Communication and HP Pavilion

I haven't been doing enough chatting or talking with people.  Hopefully my friends are moving along through life happily.

Projects:

Set up hp pavilion dv6325us with Ubuntu 7.04 for 64bit AMD and Intel computers after contacting tech support about how it crashed so hard that sometimes even its Vista blue screens of death would crash to unreadability.  After about 2 hours they had given me a series of tests to do and instructions on reseating the memory.  (I won't go into the details of the preceding two hours, suffice to say, for once I was not impressed with HP support.) The tests all came back fine, Vista was still Vista, crashes sometimes if you close the lid during shutdown and it tries to go to sleep at the same time (even if you tell it not to) and other fun tricks, and they don't provide downgrades or upgrades for Windows, so... on to Linux based systems, I'll miss some of my games.  That's about it.

The details: To boot the install cd I had to interupt the startup by pressing F6 and adding " noapic nolapic" which I got from wiki.ubuntu.com/hp_dv6000_seri… but my computer hasn't got quite all the fancy stuff they had. After that the install ran perfectly smoothly.  On first boot I discovered that the wireless wasn't working, I spent a long time looking for the right set of drivers, finally these instructions at help.ubuntu.com/community/Wifi… worked. I had downloaded the driver onto another machine and copied it over, so I skipped that step.  And I feel ZERO guilt about using a windows driver, least they can do for selling a system that crashes it's own crash catching system.  Everything else seems to work fine, all the media buttons, and even most of the remote buttons. Card reader reads, usb detects.  I haven't written a dvd yet.  I had a bit of trouble figuring out dual monitors, I don't think the x driver it defaulted to was quite right, because it cloned just fine right up until the window manager started .  I wound up using Envy albertomilone.com/nvidia_scrip… . I did install the restricted movie codecs help.ubuntu.com/community/Rest… .  Again, I read that it's possibly illegal to install them where I am, but I bought a computer with the software from these companies pre-installed to read dvds I have already purchased.  It's not my fault they partnered with Microsoft.

Because of it's newfangled 64 instead of 86 based architecture I had a bit more trouble when I got to the internet.  Well, when I wanted to get fancy and run java games and watch flash video help.ubuntu.com/7.04/internet/… worked for Java, for flash I wound up using a script from ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph… (the one that says flash only).  I tried many other things for each, starting with the official documentation, but these are the ones that worked.

Oh yeah, and I told Gimp that my Wacom pen was a screen stylus so I can use all it's pressure sensitivy .

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Need Representative

I need someone who can make contacts, who can keep website submissions up to date, who can remember when it's been more than 6 weeks since contacting a publisher and it's time to send another letter or call again.

I would like to work with someone who could put me in the way of children's book artwork, work that encourages people, or find homes for previously finished works.  Someone who likes talking to people.

What I can do: Draw/paint/illustrate approximately 10 hours a week.  Keep you updated on my progress. Rework things that don't work for people who would like commissions without angsting (too much) over changes to "my" image. Expect 50% of any profit, after all, my work isn't doing much  besides hanging around cluttering walls and dvds.

What I can't do: Go places much.  Remember things very well (I can read though. )  Stay healthy and active very long at a time, so while I can usually say I'll do this piece within a week, I can't say I'll do it by tommorrow.

If you know anyone, or know anyone who might know anyone, please point them my way.

Thank you.
Kathi