I thought this one deserved a little place in a blog. So the past few days, the ice cream freezer has been kinda funny at work. It had some melted ice cream in the bottom, and the giant tubs of ice cream were always soft. I thought it might ‘get resolved’ by now, but since it was still nasty last night, I decided to inquire about it. Dennis didn’t even know it was acting up. It had been unplugged for a while, I guessed, and there was melted ice cream in the bottom. The stench was unbelievable. I could barely hold myself from puking right there. Dennis said to clean it out. Ugh.. This thing weighs like 50 lbs and is on 4-inch casters. Bottom heavy, and 3 feet tall by (2 long and 1 wide) – it is not easy to tip over. So with the utmost precision I had to dump out the ungodly scented cream and rinse with hot water using a little bucket. Two rinses later I was able to stand it back up and proceed to wiping it out with water and then sanitizing solution. The smell never went away. I plugged it back in and cracked the lid to let it air out some. I swear if anyone spills something in there I’m gonna kill ‘em..
Oh hey, but the cool thing is that the other night I had a ticket come in for a Special Occasion, which is currently a brownie with Melba sauce, whipped cream, macadamia nuts and a sprig of mint. I made it look all pretty and put it in the window. Shortly after, another one came in and Dave came running around the corner saying, “Yo Sam, that last Special Occasion looked amazing. I’m gonna take a picture of this next one and send it to Dennis” Oh. Yeah.
In other news, I looked into Ubuntu 10.4 LTS this week. Downloaded the image and loaded it onto a laptop to test it. It mostly worked great except for no native wireless support. Which for me is a big deal. The other problem is that, since I was dual-booting with Windows 7, I would switch between the two to get some files on a flashdrive, etc.. but every time I went back into Win7 the touchpad wouldn’t work on first boot. So I had to reboot twice to use the mouse.
I shortly gave up on using Ubuntu and uninstalled. I was then looking at the website to see about downloading 9.10 (the latest stable version) but couldn’t find it. In the process, though, I came across Wubi.exe: a file to install Ubuntu within Windows, so you don’t need an extra partition. That got me thinking, and I put my 10.4 LTS disc back in. Within Windows there was an option to install Ubuntu. So I now have that set up. The problem with the wireless drivers and mouse drivers in Windows are still there. Though I‘ve read about using NDISWrapper in Ubuntu to get the Windows drivers working, I haven’t had any luck yet. I got all the components downloaded and installed, installed the drivers, and rebooted, but it still seems to have trouble. In fact, the Hardware Drivers Manager thing (that manages 3rd party proprietary drivers) still opened up and suggested 2 drivers: a generic, free licensed driver for Broadcom 43xx, and another version that was proprietary. I ended up doing the proprietary one, since it seemed to math the description of the wireless card. I now think that was a bad idea. Even after uninstalling it, it is the only option. The ‘free use’ driver disappeared. And with that NDIS stuff, I loaded two separate drivers and neither seemed to allow connections. Guess I’ll just have to fiddle with it a while.
So as I close here, I’ll say that Facebook’s blog import service sucks. I write a blog, post it on Blogspot at 8AM, and it posts 36 hours later on Facebook. I seriously have started writing my next blog by that time.
Kthnxbye
