Current mood:	accomplished
Current music:	the din of students eating dinner

Thanks for spoiling my day, automatic Ubuntu update!
Yeah, lately, the updates coming through the manager have broken more than they fixed, and today, they outdid themselves - they managed to completely break my wicd (which is my network manager). I couldn't uninstall the broken remnants, I couldn't reinstall the package... it was fucked up and I was ready to throw my laptop against the wall. However, this post saved my computer - they told me how to get rid of the broken package. Little tip: If you use Ubuntu with wicd, NEVER try to keep your old settings, that's what will kill it.

At any rate, then wicd worked again, but it was incredibly slow and half the time had all the networks greyed out so you couldn't connect - not exactly workable, either. Dear Ubuntu developers: Before you stick a repo into your updates, could you maybe, just maybe check first IF IT FUCKING WORKS?!?

I managed to stay online long enough to find the still buggy, but miles better version I was using before the update manager barfed this piece of shit on my hard drive, completely removed the updated version, installed the old one and locked it so it will never fucking ever update again. My blood pressure can't take any more "improvements" of this sort.

Well, at least it's fixed, although I bet I'll find at least three more grey hairs tomorrow morning.