My Ubuntu Experience

I love linux. I really do. I used to be a Slackware nerd before discovering Gentoo. Having my computer act exactly as I intended with little bloat was probably an ego thing. I loved it. Then, I got lazy. I started using Ubuntu.

After leaving my phone at a friend's house, I had to install a computer alarm clock. Alas, the Alarm Clock application combined with Ubuntu has resulted in hilarity. What song would I choose?

T.G.I.F, T.G.I.F, T.G.I.F!

But, for some unknown reason, the alarm clock just kept replicating itself. NB: I'll always reference my own stupidity as 'some unknown reason.' I'm now blessed with a bunch of instances of the same alarm...


kristopher@kristopher-studio:~$ ps aux | grep alarm
1000      3407  0.0  0.1 387224  5332 ?        Sl   May01   0:00 /usr/lib/evolution/3.2/evolution-alarm-notify
1000      6935  0.0  8.9 1682960 363404 ?      Sl   May01   4:16 alarmclock
1000     15525  0.0  5.5 1287996 223228 ?      Sl   May03   1:33 alarmclock
1000     16979  0.0  4.7 1222552 193764 ?      Sl   May04   0:32 alarmclock
1000     17001  0.0  4.7 1222572 193732 ?      Sl   May04   0:32 alarmclock
1000     17015  0.0  0.5 870792 22240 ?        Sl   May04   0:10 alarmclock
1000     24884  2.8  0.6 812844 24504 ?        Sl   09:00   0:00 alarmclock
1000     24956  0.0  0.0   9380   908 pts/0    S+   09:00   0:00 grep alarm

Each alarm begins just milliseconds apart and makes sure to tell me that it is not happy about playing so many sounds at once.

It seems like only Ubuntu truly understands my love of Katy Perry.