reinvention

Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law throughout the Philippines on 21 September 1972, thirty-three years ago today. I was a high school freshman then and did not understand fully the significance of Martial Law. I was to become a “Martial Law Baby.”

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Upgraded my Ubuntu Hoary system at work to Breezy Badger recently (13 September, I think).

First, updated the /etc/apt/sources.list so that the system updates to Breezy (with Hoary backports). Used the source from here but edited so that it points to au sites rather than US sites.

As Breezy is still in Beta, I was bound to run into some problems upgrading, and I did. See notes on these problems.

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