[tech] Changes to clownfish

[Ash Tyndall]

After a dist-upgrade on OpenSUSE by [BOB], problems were run into with
the OS only booting sometimes, other times it would freeze during the
boot process.
Attempts to get into single-user mode failed as, for reasons unknown,
clownfish's keyboard refuses to work in that mode.
I wiped the machine and installed Ubuntu after [DAA] tried to make the
OS boot consistently for a considerable time.
I'm setting up the SOE now; at the very least local root SSH access
with the clubroom password from the machine room should be working
before I leave tonight.
The machine may very well go back to OpenSUSE once [BOB] finds the
time to correct my clearly terrible distribution preference.

-- 
Ash Tyndall [ASH]
2011 Fresher Rep