Ubuntu - I is retarded

Well, I am getting pretty good at installing Ubuntu on my computer. Mainly because I have done it 3-4 times in the last few days.

But, my issue with 'updating' causing the computer to die was perhaps not the updates fault, but the clumsy oaf who is messing with the system.

Because the said clumsy oaf is trying to tidy the system and his first angle of attack was Evolution, the Email program installed as standard, but obviously has its fingers deeper in the system than just that, so doing a hash clean out removes half the system, so it doesn't boot.

I tried to recover with a good old "sudo apt-get install evolution" but that did about as much as nothing.

Re-install, and then get on with it all.

Training - Monday 30th June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 15minutes moderate

Other
Single Leg Leg Press: warmups, 100x3x5
Standing Leg Curl: warmups, 42x5x5
Stretch

Main
1board+dP+dM: warmups, 35(77)x5, 52.5(116)x4, 77.5(171)x3x2, 100(220)x3x6
Db Flyes: 20x10x5
Stretch

Note
Felt reasonably good, except for the band tension, doubled purples and doubled minis add up quickly. Nice day considering the lack of sleep.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron or Barrel of Rotten Fish

The experience of updating to Ubuntu 8.04 has been a barrel of fun, well, pathetic pile of garage.

Besides the wireless issues I typically have, 7.1 worked perfectly straight outta the box. But 8.04 has not been quite as nice.

At first I updated. Which did not go well, but 700megs of bandwidth used. So, I performed a fresh install, which went reasonably well. Until I updated and got a new kernel, which killed everything.

So, fresh install #2 and I updated only a few components.

Fix the wireless through the normal route.

Next was very slow performance, for nearly everything. I probably need another gig of memory, but 7.1 never had an issue with it.

I tried compiz, and it was pretty much garbage, even though I had installed the restricted ATI drivers. So I followed this installation guide, which worked perfectly, compiz works perfectly.

But the overall system is still pretty slow, at least compared to Ubuntu 7.1, which appears to be related to my memory, and the systems desire to run virtual memory to the max, especially with Firefox3.

I think there is a bit more tweaking before this is running nicely, plus some visual changes to get rid of some of the turd brown Ubuntu setup.

Ubuntu waaaaaaaaaaa

After a bit of mucking around, I updated my PC to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

The update screwed the wireless and none of my normal fixes appeared to work, and the fix I finally tried trashed the computer and stopped it booting in any mode, including safe mode.

So, I did a blank installation from my DVD.

Most things appear fine. The little graphical weirdness that I noticed with the update did not occur, the ATI driver appeared to flow nicely.

But, wireless is the issue once again, well thanks to the Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) that is in my system. This is a continuing problem with Ubuntu, no matter what version you use.

The fix that the setup tries to achive is by installing the b43-fwcutter setup, which almost worked, but didn't... well, it was working but not allowing connection to my ad-hoc network. It could see it, but not connect. I know, get a router and fix that shit, and I will in time (altho a wireless-n would be nice...) , but I want to sit on my chair tonight to fix it.

So, I did this, which appears to work, but not perfectly. I will mess around with it all, and see what it does.

Currently I am downloading 200megs of updates.

Training - Thursday 26th June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 8 minutes moderate

Other
Single leg leg press: warmups, 100x3x5
Standing leg curl: warmups, 42x4x2, 48x4
Stretch

Main
3board(paused) : warmups, 150(330)x5, 180(396)x4, 210(462)x3x5
Pec machine flyes: 54x10x3
Rear delt machine: 54x10x3
Stretch

Notes
Lower body felt good, upper was stiff, especially the shoulders and even the hands hurt. Easy, but sore.

Training - Tuesday 24th June 2008

Other
Cycle: 20minutes moderate

Notes
Watching Donnington MotoGP

Training - Tuesday 24th June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 7minutes moderate/hard

Other
Leg Curls: warmups, 96x3x2, 95.5x3x3

Main
2board(paused): warmups, 127.5x5, 152.5x4, 177.5x3x2, 202.5x2x3, 190x3x2, 177.5x4, 152.5x6, 127.5x8
Db Flye: 20x10x5
Stretch

Other
Machine Row: warmups, 103x3, 105.5x3, 108x3, 110x3, 112.5x3
Stretch

Notes
Tired and quite sore from yesterdays session, but strength was fine. I should be doing cardio tonight.

Training - Monday 23rd June 2008

Warmups
Band pushdowns: gx20x3
Band pulldown rows: 2gx20x3

Main
Reverse green bench(paused): warmups, 125(275)x5, 150(330)x4, 175(385)x3x2, 200(440)x3, 207.5(457)x3, 215(473)x3, 220(484)x2, 225(495)x2, 230(506)x2

Other
Single Leg - Leg Press: warmups, 100x3x6

Main
3board(paused): warmups, 150x4, 180(396)x4, 205(451)x4, 210(462)x4, 215x4, 220x4
Pec Dec Flyes: 47x10x3
Rev Delt machine: 47x10x3
Stretch

Notes
Felt stiff/sore to start with, but got into it by the top weights, pleased with the 230 as I was getting tired by that point. The 3board could have been better, but is expected, still 220 is good.

Training - Friday 20th June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 10minutes Moderate/hard

Other
Seated Leg Curl: warmups, 96-101x3x6
Shoulder press: 6sets up to complete stackx4
Dips: 0x6x5
Stretch Lower
Rows: up to 82x4x5
Treadmill: 10minutes moderate/hard
Curls: 45x10x3, 22.5x30
Pushdowns: 60x10x3, 32x30
Stretch Upper

Notes
Whole body was feeling tight and sore, but the session went well. Lower body stretching is painful, but needs to be done.

Training - Thursday 19th June 2008

Main
1board+Looped GPM (paused): warmups, 90(198)x5, 110(242)x4, 127.5(281)x3x2, 145(319)x3, 150(330)x3, 155(341)x3x3

Other
Single Leg Leg Press: warmups, 100x3x5

Main
Pin Press (~2board level): warmups, 140(308)x5, 165(363)x4, 190(418)x3x5
Db Flyes: 20x10x5

Notes
Rushed day, but the work felt excellent. I double looped my minis/purples, but only single looped the greens. It meant that the tension kicked it swiftly from about 1/2 way upwards. It felt good. The 155 was sorta what I would expect for an 80% lift, so its all guess work. Pin press felt hard on the shoulders but was reasonably strong throughout.

Training - Tuesday 17th June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 5minutes moderately hard

Other
Machine Rows: warmups, 54x4, 68x4, 89x3x2, 103x3x5

Main
2board(paused): warmups, 127.5(281)x6, 150(330)x5, 175(385)x4x2, 190(418)x3x2, 202.5(446)x2x2, 190x3x2, 175x4, 165x6, 150x8, 127.5x10

Other
Leg Curls: warmups, upto 84x4x5
Fudged Reverse hyper: 0x5x5
Machine Pushdowns: 4sets up to 76.5x10
Stretches

Notes
Slept in too long this morning, so ended up with a mid-afternoon workout. The board work felt OK, but the shoulders are definitely feeling beat now. Added in some more triceps work not that I am eating a bit more. Feeling OK.

Training - Monday 16th June 2008 - P.M.

Other
Cycle: 30minutes, moderate.

Notes
Nothing hard, just getting some work while watching the Portugal MotoGP round.

Training - Monday 16th June 2008

Warmups
Pushdowns: gx15x3
Rows:2gx15x3

Main
Reverse green band bench(paused): warmups, 132.5(292)x5, 157.5(347)x4, 185(407)x3x2, 200(440)x3x6
Db Flye: 18.5x10x5

Other
Leg Press: warmups, 90x2x5
Leg Extension: warmups, 74-89x4x5
Rear delt machine: 54x10x3
Arm curl: three sets of 10
Stretching, lots and lots of stretching

Notes
First day back into it, with a slightly different setup to the program. Reverse bands did not feel great, it didn't help that I overestimated the load I should use, so I went to 200 instead. It felt OK for the first day in the cycle.

Training - Thursday 12th June 2008

Warmups

Bandpushdowns/Band Rows: 2px12x3

Main

Bench: warmups, 115(253)x1, 140(308)x1, 160(352)x1, 182.5(402)x1, 207.5(457)xbackpainfail

3board: 207.5x1, 217.5(478)x1, 237.5(523)x1, 250(550)x1, 257.5(567)x1, 265(583)x1

Bench: 100(220)x12

Stretch

Notes

Stupid SI joint was playing up excessively with the full range bench, so as soon as the bar got to around chest level it created a lovely pinching sensation. Blah. So, having failed with that, I decided to hit a movement that I should hit a PR in, and I stopped at 38.5lb PR. I suspect that 272.5/601 would have gone, but lifting it off by myself is hard, and I had done enough work before then, plus the back playing up each lift. But I will take a good PR when I can get it.

Training - Tuesday 10th June 2008

Warmups

Rows: 40x12x16

Pushdown: 39x12x3

Main
Ballistic Bench: warmups, 20(44)x3x2, 30(66)x3x2, 40(88)x2x4

Stretch

Other

Machine Rows: warmups, 60x5, 75x4, 89x3x2, 101x3x6

Decline Bench band GM: 2p+2mx12x3

Stretch

Notes

Relaxing day, wen't in a little later, it was still cold but ok after warming up. Lower back is still playing up with any arching, so I am taking it easy on that.

Training - Monday 9th June 2008

Warmups
Pushdown machine: 39x12x3
Bench machine: 40x12x4
Pulldowns: 54x12x4

Main
1board(paused): warmups, 117.5(259)x3, 142.5(314)x3x2, 165(363)x2x2, 190(418)x1x2
Db Flyes: 16.5x10x3

Other
Single Leg leg press; warmups, 80x3x5
Seated Leg curl: 5sets up to 80x5
Treadmill: 15minutes moderate

Notes
Ok day, speed was fine but groove was not there.

Training - Friday 6th June 2008

Warmups
Rows machine: 54x12x6
Pushdowns: somethingx12x3

Main
Bench: warmups, 115(253)x5, 140(308)x4, 160(352)x3x2, 182.5(402)x2x4

Db Flyes: 20x10x3

Rear Delt thing: 3sets to 85x10

Other
Pushdowns: up to somethingx6
Stretch, roll, stretch, stretch, stretch

Notes

Tight, not feeling the best, but went through the motions.

Training - Thursday 5th June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 5minutes light

Main
Ballistic bench: warmups, 20(44)x5, 30(66)x4, 40(88)x3x2, 50(110)x2x4
Db Flyes: 18.5x8x3
Rear Delt machine: 3 sets to 77.5x10

Other
X-Trainer: 20minutes (#5-6/60-85rpm)

Notes
Not recovering as well as I would like, so I have added in some speed work, two sessions is what it typically takes for me to get ' up to speed'.

Training - Tuesday 3rd June 2008

Warmups
Treadmill: 5minutes

Main
1board(paused): warmups, 117.5(259)x5, 142.5(314)x4, 165(363)x3x2, 190(418)x2x5
Db Flyes: 16.5x8x3
Rear Delt machine: 47x10, 68x10, 75x8

Other
Squats: 60x5x2, 100x5
X-Trainer: 8minutes, warmup, 20:10(#11/>85rpm)x4, warmdown
Cycle: 10minutes(#7/100rpm)
Stretch

Notes
Feeling relatively rested, but a little tight in the pec/delt area. Weight was OK. Squats were kept light as the back is still playing up.