Barebones/Desktops, IT stuff

New work horse with Xubuntu 14.04

It was time (well, at least I thought it was) to make a new build that will act as my work horse.

This build will run linux (at the moment, I am using Xubuntu 14.04) as I am mostly working with this operating system. The usage varies from normal things such as mail, browsing, documents, etc. to running several virtual machines to test new software. Additionally I wanted to make sure that this build is going to last a little while. On top of that, the computer will run several days in a row at times, therefore silent was key as well.

This is why I decided to add the following components to this build:

  • Corsair Obsidian 550D
  • Intel Core i7 4771 BOX (LGA 1150, 3.50GHz)
  • Noctua NH-U14S (140mm)
  • Intel DH87RL (LGA 1150, Intel H87, µATX)
  • Corsair Vengeance 32GB 4-Kit XMP DDR3 1600MHz CL9
  • ASUS Nvidia GeForce GT640 DC SL
  • Samsung 840 Evo Basic (120GB, 2.5″) -> operating system
  • Samsung 840 Evo Basic (120GB, 2.5″) -> virtual machine
  • Samsung 840 Evo Basic (250GB, 2.5″) -> home directory
  • Seasonic P-460 Platinum Modular Fanless – 460 Watt (460W)

While my last build was about 35 to 40 dezibel, this one is actually around 25 to 30 tops. I was using my Nexus 5 with an app to determine that, so I am sure these numbers may be not as accurate as they could be.
Nevertheless, the new build is very very quiet (and is even missing one of the noise dampening sides when I was measuring the noise).

Only thing is, that one of the fans is not running yet as I am missing a power supply connector. That will be done within the next couple of days to ensure optimal air flow.

 

Barebones/Desktops, IT stuff

New gaming PC (June 2012)

A new game rig arrived today. I guess there is not much to say except what it consists:

  • Intel Core 5i 3570K (3400) Quad Core Ivy Bridge with 6 MB Cache
  • The CPU is cooled by a Cooler Master V8 (a damn huge thing)
  • I am using two Barracuca 7200.12 SATA-3 750 GByte for my games and data
  • I am using a Samsung SSD 830 128GByte for my OS
  • The PSU is a Cooler Master Silent Pro M2 620 watt
  • The CPU is on a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H ATX motherboard
  • The little baby gets 16 GByte of RAM (4×4) from Corsair (XMS3, CL9-9-9-24, 1600 MHz, 1.5V)
  • The graphic card is a Gainward Nvidia GeForce GTX670 Phantom II with 2 GByte RAM
  • All that is in a Cooler Master CM 620 II Advanced chassis
  • At first I wanted to leave out the DVD drive, but then got a Samsung SH-222BB/RSMS anyway.

As this is my gaming rig, I am using Windows 7 SP1 64bit Professional.
To make sure I do see all the games in good quality I added a 24” Asus ML248H LED monitor.

The building itself went remarkably easy so far. I surely hope I didn’t push my luck too much 😉

Jamboree 2011

So far, so good…

Well, in every Jamboree there are things that do not work as they are intended or planned to.

For us I guess there are the weather and the issues with the food houses. The challenges with the IST being not on the job or actually having too few of them are very present as well.

The weather could definitely be better. To be quite honest, I never had such a bad weather in my entire international scouting experience. While it rained once or twice in some camps (World Rover Moot Sweden in 1996 or 2004 in Taiwan) it never did for a longer period of time.
Of course, there is nothing we can do. Apparently we just have bad luck with the summer. Fortunately it does not affect the motivation of the participants too much.

The food houses have a lot of issues at hand with the cashier system, food deliveries and waste water management. I am confident it will be sorted out sooner than later. Hanna, Mats and the Food House Block team are doing a great job here…against all odds!

There are too few ISTs. Too few in every aspect. We would need more! And there are plenty who are here which do not show up properly for work. That is a pity and makes me think if there is some sort of rethinking the whole IST thing necessary.. However, I think this issues is and was present in every Jamboree I attended.

Well, in conclusion:
We have to deal with tons of smaller things and…knock on wood…major issues did not arise so far.
The Head of Section (Hanna and Mats) and all other people involved in the Blocks are doing an amazing job. They will be so tired after the Jamboree, but they do not give up. I really feel honoured to work with them!

Jamboree 2011

Opening Ceremony

One of the biggest moments in every Jamboree is surely the opening ceremony. This is where the magic happens, where the participants, IST, JPT and everyone else to actually open the Jamboree.

I must admit that I had low hopes for this one. Not because of the organisation, but rather because of the weather. It rained a lot before hand.
However, for some divine reason it stopped shortly before the start.

The ceremony opened with a minute of silence for the events in Norway. To my big surprise that worked very well, nearly 40’000 people were completly silence. I thank them very much for that. But it took only seconds after that silence to pick up the great atmosphere and cheering they had before.

The rain and bad weather could do nothing to demotivate them. Ten thousands of people singing, cheering and celebrating. I thought first we will stay a bit in the background, but as the stewards tried to get people to move towards the stage we also followed. Hanna, Pernilla and me ended up between Swedish, Brazilian and Austrian people.

The ceremony was very funny, not too long and very very entertaining. There were the usual speeches (which were fortunately very good and short) and the history of Sweden was presented. We had a blast and judging from what we see, the participants even more.

Only the ending was a tiny little bit surpring…it just said “the end” and the expected big bang was not really there. Also there were no information for the troops to return to their subcamps.

Other than that…great show! Had my fair share of goose bumps :)

Jamboree 2011

The first day…

Retrospective:

Had a good start on the 21st of July…got up in the morning (without rain) in Switzerland, took a full train to Zuerich Airport and checked in. To my big (pleasant) surprise they just asked me to pay 45 CHF for additional luggage (where I was expecting a LOT more as I had more than 5 kg more luggage than allowed).

Then I was actually quite surprised that the plane was actually fully booked. Well, not that it mattered (I was lucky, got an aisle seat), but I hope for them that on my flight back home no one has to sit next to me ;)).

When we arrived the baggage reclaim was delayed which made me a bit nervous as I had to catch a train from Copenhagen to Kristianstad. But not a problem, the booking system for the train ticket worked like a charm for me and I was sitting in the train towards Kirstianstad.

After a short while I met two scouts (IST) from Honduras. As we met I told them where I am from (Switzerland, obvisouly) they started to ask me question about Sweden. After a half hour I clarified again that I am Swiss, not Swedish for that matter…and as I was expecting, they thought first I am Swedish…and surely started to wonder why I could not answer anz questions about Sweden 😉
So yes, that does happen!

I got a pick up from the station (Thanks Sarah for driving and Hanna helping organising) and a short shopping tour at ICA.
After that I could pitch up my tent in the light and without rain, thanks for that too.

So, yes…quite a good start even though the weather did not look promising.

Jamboree 2011

Another flying experience – Cimber Sterling

There I was a couple of weeks ago trying to find a suitable flight from Zuerich to Copenhagen for the Head of Contingent Meeting starting on 1st of April 2011 in Malmö.

While browsing the possible flight using ebookers.ch I found a rather cheap one with reasonable price from Cimber Sterling. Never heard of that airline actually, I sitll booked it. Ebookers told me that it appears to he part of Canadair which seemed surprising, but well…nothing is impossible.

When I checked in yesterday, I was told that I have to pay extra for my backpack. 21 CHF (or 15 Euros) was it.
You can imagine I was rather surprised.
Additionally I had to go to the other end of the airport I actually never was and I had to take the bus…which is not a big issue, but rather unusual for me though.

Good part was, the plane was rather small (so more flight experience) and it was nearly empty. Only about 25 people were flying at this time. So plenty of space left to stretch the legs and put bags.

I hope that the flight back will be as empty as the flight to Copenhagen…I am just a little bit unhappy that I have to pay again for my luggage.

So, in conclusion…I payed basically not much less than taking SAS or Swiss (because if my luggage), but had a rather good flight. Not sure yet if I will take Cimber again because of the luggage price (next meeting is covered by Resia, the flight to the camp will not go over Cimber as I have tons of luggage).

However, its a flight experience more :)

Barebones/Desktops

Ubuntu 9.04 on my new Barebones

The installation with Ubuntu 9.04 (used beta first and then updated nearly on a daily base) went smooth so far. Frankly I did not expect otherwise. I had no issues during the installations.

However, there is one backdraw when actually using it. While most or actually Hardware is working the sound chip seems to be too new for Alsa 1.0.18 which ships with Ubuntu 9.04.

I had to install Alsa 1.0.19 which I did using a script mentioned in the ubuntuforums.org. After that most of the time the sound works. After an unregular period of time the sounds starts to stutter and even refuses to work. However, this is easily solved by a force-reload of alsa.

It is not nice and I am unable to determine if it is a faulty implementation of 1.0.19 or if I will need to wait for newer releases to fix this issue. But so far I can cope with that.

Barebones/Desktops

The “new” Hardware (2009)

Well, it was time for new hardware and I thought of buying some new barebones and stuff them with components that will last a little while.
I actually bought two identical barebones and stuffed them with identical parts…

Let me tell you whats “under the hood” and then I will go on telling you (in later posts) how the installation of Denian 5.0 (“lenny”) and Ubuntu 9.04 went.

My List I received from the shop says (that is for EACH barebone):

  • Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16 GHz with 6 MB cache)
  • Kingston memory 8 GB (4x2GB, DDR2, 800 MHz, PC2-6400, CL5)
  • Asus Nvidia GeForce EN9400GTS SIL DI (512MB, silent, DVI)
  • Asus DVD writer 221LT (Light scripe and dual layer, SATA)
  • HDD Western Digital Caviar 750 GB SATA-II (7200 rpm and 32 MB cache)
  • The harddisks are in Icy Boxes so I can change them easily
  • Chassis Fans (Zalman ZM-F2 Plus, 92mm)

To actually use all three barebones (the older one and the two new ones) I bought a Level One KVM Switch (KVM-0306, with DVI, Audio, USB) which so far is working perfectly fine with the Acer AL2223W screen (1680×1050) and with the mouse/keyboard I already had.

A word of warning:
I first had 4x2GB of RAM (each barebone) from OCZ (Plantinum, PC2-6400) which did not work when used ALL at once.
If I put all four in the barebone they overheated and caused errors (memtest showed them several times very clear). When I used only 2 (read: 4 GB RAM) it worked perfectly.
They were to close together and they used 2.1 volt. The Kingston RAM is smaller and uses only 1.8 volt and does clearly less heat up.

My lspic says (debian lenny with kernel 2.6.26):

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0641 (rev a1)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b2)
05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)

The lspci -v says:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d3
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: fa000000-fe8fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at b800 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at b880 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
Memory at f9ffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82fe
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at f9ff8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f8f00000-00000000f8ffffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fea00000-feafffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: fe900000-fe9fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f8e00000-00000000f8efffff
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport-driver
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
I/O ports at b080 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at b400 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at b480 [size=32]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at f9ffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
Kernel modules: ehci-hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: feb00000-febfffff
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at a000 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9c00 [size=4]
I/O ports at 9880 [size=8]
I/O ports at 9800 [size=4]
I/O ports at 9480 [size=16]
I/O ports at 9400 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ide-pci-generic, ata_piix, ata_generic

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at f9ff6000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 0400 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
I/O ports at ac00 [size=4]
I/O ports at a880 [size=8]
I/O ports at a800 [size=4]
I/O ports at a480 [size=16]
I/O ports at a400 [size=16]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
Kernel modules: ide-pci-generic, ata_piix, ata_generic

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0641 (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82d4
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at cc00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fe880000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidiafb

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82c6
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 1275
I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Memory at fe9ff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at f8ef0000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fe9c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169

03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b2) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 82e0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at ec00 [size=8]
I/O ports at e880 [size=4]
I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
I/O ports at e480 [size=4]
I/O ports at e400 [size=16]
Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: pata_marvell
Kernel modules: ide-pci-generic, pata_marvell, ata_generic

05:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8294
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at febff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: ohci1394

My /proc/meminfo says:

MemTotal:      8200312 kB
MemFree:       6756088 kB

My /proc/cpuinfo says (as cpu 0 and cpu 1):

processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 23
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8500  @ 3.16GHz
stepping    : 10
cpu MHz        : 3166.303
cache size    : 6144 KB

Pretty neat, eh? 😉

Lenovo Thinkpad x200

Ubuntu 8.10

I installed Ubuntu 8.10 as beta on my Lenovo x200 and nearly everything worked out of the box. With kernel 2.6.27 I did not expect anything else.

The only thing that seems not to work is the camera (funny though: the camera in the t400 is working without problems). Everything kept on getting more and more stable over time.

Still, for some odd reason I am expecting more from the intel video card. Still having trouble with World of Warcraft (Wotlk) because there are graphical glitches and it even freezes the whole OS sometimes. I have not tried any other game which needs 3D, but I am hoping that newer releases of mesa and the intel driver may improve things.
However, I guess that this means to wait for 9.04.

The wireless is working pretty well. Just yesterday I was downloading rather many files over short period and my internet link was fully used. That also means that the wireless connection to my AP is working rather well. I had some troubles earlier on, but they seem to be fixed or happen to occur less often.

However, I am not happy about the overall performance with Ubuntu 8.10 and I am really hoping that 9.04 will bring some improvments…