DeadTOm's Journal: Updated to Kubuntu 8.10 last night

Aside from all of my previous kde4 configs being completely deleted and having to go back and reconfigure plasma, my desktop and a few other things it seems to be running pretty good.
I'm unimpressed with the new knetworkmanager. It doesn't seem to want to enable interfaces, requiring opening konsole and manually enabling them in order to connect to anything wired or wireless. I also noticed that pidgin and firefox have trouble connecting and seem to think they're offline. After five minutes of googling I discovered it was a common problem and networkmanager seems to be the culprit. I uninstalled it and it's kde ui and suddenly everything works fine.
I wrote some small bash scripts for connecting to the Internet a while back and they were still sitting in my bin folder so I made a few modifications and things are working beautifully now. I've been kicking around the idea of writing a bash script to handle my wireless connections because I've been through several gui managers over the last year and been pretty unimpressed with them all. I like the command line better anyway. No crap clogging up my taskbar that way.