Archive for February, 2007
Software Installation
Here’s another comparison between Linux and Windows – Installing Software.
With Windows, you typically download a software package that has a graphical installer. You click next a few times and installs. I thought this was smooth and easy.
Now all day yesterday while installing software on Ubuntu, I was using apt-get. Holy cow! apt-get absolutely rocks! With [...]
Vista – R.I.P.
I used Vista for over a week and I was not impressed. I was not particularly thrilled that when deleting some files I had to do 3 separate actions because of the Windows Defender crap. It made me feel like Windows was trying to defend itself from me. I like my operating [...]
Enter Vista
I was able to fix one of the machines! It was a simple problem. Apparently PCI-E video cards require XP SP2 or better. I did not have a slipstreamed XP disk and instead of making one, I just decided to install that copy of Vista I received from PowerTogether.com.
There are a few things I like [...]
Hardware / Software Problems
This last weekend I started a project to upgrade my desktop machines to dual core processors. One AMD and one Intel.
One word of advice: Don’t use cheap motherboards.
3 of 3 machines are down. Hard. Can’t load XP, Vista, or Ubuntu. This is going to consume my time for a few days, so please stand by [...]
