For example: whilst wireless worked perfectly, my ethernet didn’t autoconnect. I fixed it by following the steps at Craig Mayhew’s blog, but that shouldn’t be necessary: this was a fresh install after all.

Also, there’s a hardware beep when I shut down. No kidding.

On the plus side, everything is very smooth, perhaps also due to the fact that I’m now running 64 bit. Just don’t ask about Flash and/or Java just yet.

Now I just need to wait until TeXLive 2009 hits the mirrors and I’ll be ready to start work again.

I’m using the EUI’s Citrix farm for some high-demand computing. Instead of emailing the data files back and forth, I finally mapped my G: drive. Here’s how I did it:

1. sudo apt-get install smbfs
2. sudo mkdir /media/euishare
3. sudo mount -t cifs //RESSRV1/username$ /media/euishare -o username=username,password=******,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

Replace username with your username, and the asterisks with your own password. If you’re not a SPS, HEC or Law researcher, RESSRVC1 is not your server: check this list for your server.