A few months have passed since the last time I used Ubuntu and started using Windows XP. Sounds like a confession, right? Why I did that? Because imediately after I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 I got myself a brand new version of the popular distribution and as a bonus I got a low resolution, of 800×600, which really loves to be here, on my computer. It can’t be changed. I went through all the known methods and it’s still there. I manually edited xorg.conf, ran the already famous “sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg” command and still got nothing.

I admit it, I’m not as good as many other Linuxists but this thing made me use XP for a few months because I didn’t want to change my resolution from the NVidia Xserver Settings application every time I logged in. I asked on Ubuntuforums.org but I got the usual answers. And the problem is that this thing is happening to some other persons too.

If you have any idea on how to fix this, please leave a comment. I really need to get back on Ubuntu.

Although I was making fun of the “New Year’s Resolution” trend, I decided to give this thing a try and post my resolution.  I have a list of five most important aspects of my life that need to change/improve/add and will be changed/improved/added in 2009. Here they are:

1. Living healthy and leaving behind all my depressive moods that were too many this year. “Healthy” includes food, exercise and why not? a healthy spirit too.
2. I will get involved – much more than I used to – in the open source community and in organizing different events that will take place in Romania.
3. Get back to writing. And I’m not talking about blog posts. I’m talking about “offline writing”. This includes lyrics, too.
4. Really show appreciation to those who helped me in 2008 and will still be there for me in the next years. I was pretty selfish and didn’t show gratitude to those who deserve it.
5. Become completely independent. I want to do this to prove myself that I can do everything on my own, without help from my family or friends.

I hope you will have a lot of accomplishments in 2009 and complete all the tasks you’ve proposed to do for the forthcoming year. What are you going to do in 2009?