Those long nights reading up on Ubuntu, paid off. Well I was in the middle of a Jolicould install and for some reason my netbook rebooted. Not a big problem, but when it came back up, I obtained a message of “error: unknow filesystem…grub rescue.” That is it, nothing more. After a reboot, I obtained the same message. Jumped on to the message boards and scouted for an answer. I was not happy with the results and the night looked longer and longer.

But wait, I have a ubuntu live usb drive and let me try and boot from that. So i did and this got me back into the ubuntu os, so i could look around as to what the true issue was. Looking at the ntfs partion I still had it for windows and the partion before c, to rescue the netbook also was still on the drive. Ok so all is not lost. After a little bit more reading up on the message and what i was able to dig up from reviewing the files all, i was dealing with was a corrupt bootloader. Not a big deal, I just reinstalled the Ubuntu partion, pretty quick and this restored my boot loader.

So, I am going to keep this thumb drive as a way to rescue the next pc crash. It provides a way to look at a system that has a failed boot or corrupt install.

So I am checking out app brain for the second time. What drew me back is the ability to find what you like from your desktop and have it install on the phone automatically. Go try it out and let me know what you think.

I am looking forward to trying out any distro of an open source os, and peppermint ice is the next on my list. From what i see on the site is it going to have chromium as the the default brower, very nice and also a nice bundle of applications in the original download. As I use more online applications like google doc and hootsuite the need to install a bunch of application after install is almost nil. As I stated, I am looking forward to giving it a try, what do you think?

But I just can’t help but hear, ice ice baby in my heard every time I see the name.

Peppermint

Took a look over at the google voice blog today and noticed that they have improved the google voice application for the blackberry and android phone. As a very happy google voice user, back in the grand central days, they have improved the application and now this is my main number for all new contacts.

Take a look @Google Voice Blog