For 10 years or so I have been chatting and emailing with Mr. Owl. And every time there had been a change to meet up, something had come up and we didn’t make it.

But this time we finally made it and Mr. Owl made his way down to Copenhagen for a day touristing about.

The city hall in CPH.
Lucky the day was a Danish holiday and the weather was hot, hot and hot so all the local was either BBQ’ing in their back garden or on one off the many beaches around Copenhagen. So we only had the low season tourist to worry about.

Old and new together.

Walking up to the Danish parliament.

The grand tour took us via the main train station, the main square, city hall, the parliament where we could walk right under and through it, before a quick beer in Nyhavn.

King something of Denmark

A family cycling around and into the parliament.

War memorial under the parliament.

A sole demonstrator outside the parliament.

The stock market.

Nyhavn

Sailing boat “parked up” next to the Royal palace.

The Royal Palace.
Then we made our way over to the royal palace but didn’t get to wave to the queen since her flag wasn’t up. Then we …

Suspend works and I can be up and running in less than 12sec now !!!
Though suspend does work to some degree. When I come out of suspend if I had some programs running they tent to turn into memory eaters. Thunderbird really have a hard time to connect to the IMAP servers. FireFox eats memory and then freaks out the CPU and other bits are slower.
It does help close all the programs down before going into suspend mode, though after 2-3 of them ubuntu is just dead slow and only a reboot can sort that out.
Else I’m very happy with 9.04.
Just installed Picasa 3, and it scanned and loaded my 33Gb + worth of photos in less than 10min, the first time, and the cpu didn’t freak out.
FireFox and programs loads so much faster, I’m liking it :)
Though still no DVD play, it worked just fine in 6.10, or was it 6.04, but since 7.04 it does see that I got a DVD-r and the model of the drive (somewhere in the settings, can’t remember), it mount the CD and write cd’s just fine but it is still no go with the DVD’s.

wow I can now boot up just over a minute !!
Since 7.04 my boot time have been close to 1:45. But last night I installed 8.04 update strait to 8.10 and then to 9.04, after a clean format. And then I just could leave it be and upgrade my boot drive to ext4.
Haven’t installed everything yet, so I don’t know if that could slow it down, normally I don’t have anything runing upon start up. Got a wee problem with the graphic, got a line runing from screen 1 to screen 2. But FireFox is scarily fast to load and load pages compared to before. Haven’t had the time to test other things yet.

Got it up and running just fine.
I just had to figure out what this ext4 was all about and borked the system, while trying to convert from ext3 to ext4.
Now I’m installing 7.10 because that is the only disk I got laying around, never got around to burn the other ISO’s.
It is my own fault playing with something I don’t know, just about got my head around ext3 and the fstab. Oh well it is going to be a long night updating back 9.04, without ext4 :)

I couldn’t wait, so I upgraded yesterday to 9.04 beta. And as usual my monitor set up, 2 screens and Nvidia driver played up. So after 2 hours of stabbing in the dark I got the new driver and my x-server to play nicely together again.
I’m not sure if it booting up any faster, but some programs do start up a wee bit faster. Some GUI’s have changed such as the wallpaper, else I can’t see any different.
Though it does now have a new file system called EXT4, didn’t update my drive to that, so I do not know if that would be any improvement.

In my dream last night I was getting someone to run across a dried out lake in a forest in Denmark.
I woke up enough to to go “I’ll better check it out on Google Earth, because I can’t remember that there was ever a lake in that forest”.
For then to go back into the dream where I continued to use a garden hose to spray water on him so that he ran faster before we cycled down hill out of the forest which you can.
And when I woke up I checked it out on Google and sure enough there is no lake in that forest.