Theres a meme going round the blogosphere/twitterverse recently, so I figured I'd jump on it because there aren't any pictures of me on this blog yet. And there aren't that many in my flickr photostream either actually.

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Instructions

1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair… just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.

I decided to install ubuntu onto my iMac G3450Mhz G3, 768mb ram, 20GB Hard Drive to play around with. Only problem was it would boot so far, then just stop at a black screen. In googling the fix, the blog post that contains the fix is slightly outdated and 100% 404.

Here is the fix, updated for Ubuntu 6.10 Desktop PPC:

1. When the screen goes black, drop to the console

   Control - Option - F2
   

   (if you need to log in use the name ubuntu to log in.)

   $ sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
   

2. Change the frequencies in monitor section as follows:

   Section “Monitor”
       Identifier “Generic Monitor”
       Option “DPMS”
       HorizSync 60-60
       VertRefresh 43-117
   EndSection
   

3. After the changes then type control-o, return (to accept the filename), then control-x (save and exit nano)

4. Restart X by running the following:

   sudo killall gdm && sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start