i should be working (but i'm fixing my computer).

My Sony will now "suspend to ram."

The only problem is, it won't come back from ram. It comes back to the console, but the cursor isn't active.

Oh, well.

But actually, I don't care about that ... and there is real, actual progress. As in:

...

(1) I updated my main work computer to OpSu 11.1 and nothing bad happened. (Except there was some scary prompt telling me that my linux partition was mounted by kernel and this could change, making the update go awry, so I should start over and mount the partition a different way. Of course, I have no idea what it is talking about, and the OpSu updater mounted the partitions, so what was I supposed to do? Throw caution to the wind and forge ahead, I guess. It worked out okay.) But, no good deed may go unwhined, so let me mention I wish OpSu wouldn't throw out all of the repositories, as it takes quite awhile to put them in. It makes sense to get rid of 11.0 when we are updating to 11.1 -- but it would be best to auto-update whatever we are using. Second best would be to not delete them all, as I went to the trouble to manually change them BEFORE updating.

(I was going to try to update without running the actual update CD, but there were too many dependency issues, so I gave up. But it seemed to me that doing the update WITH the new repositories would avoid updating once to the CD version, and a second time to the current, updated version.

No such luck. This was a many-hour update project, especially as I did it via online rather than via downloaded DVD. 6 gigs is a whopping amount of updates.)

Then I should also mention that I had a bit of a tangle with the update to proprietary version Virtualbox -- kernel headers are necessary, also pam-devel, and then I had to run a command line script to update the kernel drivers.

But, it worked out okay.)

(2) My KDE 4.2 computer is looking very good. The widgets are cooler than in 4.1. I am seeing the genuine possibility to no longer run the kicker (kde 3.5) panel on my 4.2 desktop, especially since the plasma desktop has not crashed and required recovery via kicker for awhile. This is a good thing.

I still would like to see a text-based monitor tool like Kima, but at least there are monitoring widgets to do the job.

BTW, the "comics" widget is much improved. XKCD tests Windows 7 today. (hehehehe...)

KDE 4.2 releases in days, so if KDE and OpSu can just keep the unstable stuff in the betas, we can all leave the Windows 7 testing to XKCD.