[olug] Upgraded to 8.04

[Rob Townley]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Jennifer Frasier <wookieburgers at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Well, I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 this weekend. The only issues I've
> encountered are minor annoyances. Here's a list:
>
> 1. Everything looked really small. I tried to change my screen resolution
> and it wouldn't let me. I was prompted to update the Nvidia accelerated
> graphics card driver. I did that and my default screen resolution was
> returned to normal, but it still won't let me change the screen resolution.
> Of course, I don't need to now, but I'll have to figure this out if I ever
> want to in the future.
>
> 2. This is kind of interesting. Mugshot won't recognize that I'm logged in.
> The icon appears gray and when I click on it, it tells me to login. If I
> right-click on it and select "My Mugshot Home Page," it goes there and I'm
> already logged in. Additionally, I tried logging in to the website through
> their login link. Same thing, the website shows me as logged in, but the
> desktop icon remains gray. I did a little bit of research, and someone had
> a
> similar problem in Dapper and was told to ensure they had the firefox
> extension. I already have it. I can't find a lot of info when googling this
> problem.
>
> 3. Another weird thing that happened since I upgraded, and I'm not sure
> what
> this is related to: Gmail initially puts red underlines under all my
> contractions, as if they're misspelled, then removes them later. The word
> "wouldn't" above was underlined when I wrote it and for a little white
> after, but now it's not. If I right click it while it is underlined to get
> the "proper spelling," I get junk (every time this has happened, I
> double-checked and made sure it was actually spelled right) ???
>
> --
> "Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a
> futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself
> - that comes too late - a crop of unextinguishable regrets."
> - Joseph Conrad from Heart of Darkness
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Maybe you know this already bc you did say default.  Screen resolution for
many distributions is changed by cycling thru what is available by holding
down CTRL-ALT and tapping '+' or '-' on the keyboard / numeric keypad.

Google released a new version of gmail.  Over the weekend i had to use the
"Older Version" link at the top of the page in gmail to get it to work.