# The 802.11 network admin tool is completely broken. It is incredibly slow and there are huge pauses when there shouldn’t be, when I create or update a location, the settings don’t persist, and I can’t get it to connect to encrypted access points. If I could fix one thing in Ubuntu, it would be this. I’m tempted to download the code, crank up the debugger and have a look around. However, I can’t believe other people haven’t noticed these issues already. I wonder how many Ubuntu people aren’t running Breezy or use iwconfig?

–> should be largely fixed in Dapper by using NetworkManager

# Both save to RAM and hibernate to disk don’t work.

–> works for many more laptops now

# It is harder to install Java than any other piece of software on my computer. I’ll bet Scott McNealy couldn’t do it.

–> blame Scott McNealy for not allowing Ubuntu to redistribute Java…
–> Breezy has Blackdown Java 1.4
–> several third-party repositiories have Sun Java 1.5 packages

# Can BASH use Ctrl-c for copy like the rest of Linux?

–> Ctrl-C is “break” (DOS copied this from UNIX!), but you can use Shift-Ctrl-C in gnome-terminal.

# Ubuntu didn’t install the MP kernel on my MP machine. Fedora did. The MP 686 kernel is in the repository, so it isn’t much work…

–> It’s not on the CD though, which is why it wasn’t installed (the unofficial network-installation CDs install it AFAIK). And dapper comes with a unified UP/SMP kernel, so you won’t need it anymore… 🙂

# I’ve had a few hard crashes on my laptop, when playing around with IWConfig.

–> do you use ndiswrapper?

# My .ICEAuthority permissions got reset somehow and the graphical logon was broken. I reset the permissions and all was well.

–> IIRC there was a known problem when using K3B under GNOME causing this?