Karmic upgrade

Continuing my journal of Ubuntuism. Here’s what happenned after I upgraded to 9.10 “Karmic Koala” two weeks ago:

• Wireless connection is now always stable.
• Suspend to RAM finally works.
• I set up Tomboy notes synchronization through Ubuntu One. In practice, it doesn’t connect on desktop startup, even though it’s configured to, and when I connect it manually, it still failed to do anything aside from initial push and pull.
• Hamster has an important regression.
• Button icons are gone. So far I like that.
• X is running in a low refresh rate on an external monitor. I hope to be able to somehow fix this, although in Ubuntu xorg.conf is almost empty and doesn’t seem to have much effect.
• Its Firefox 3.5 is somehow much better than the unofficial Shiretoko release in Jaunty, which had rendering bugs. Also doesn’t leak memory like 3.0.
• I can’t get VMware Workstation to work yet. The common hack that I find on Google doesn’t work for me. At least this affects “only” my personal and not the company ebanking, which for basic purposes I can access through Firefox.