New hard drives.
I just bought two new hard drives so I’m reinstalling everything on the (old) workstation. They are 250GB Seagate ATA disks. I will run Ubuntu Linux on one of them and Windows XP on the other. The swap files for each respective operating system will be on the drive the operating system is not on. When the operating systems are installed there will be about 200GB on each disk for storage of pictures, source code and so on.
I managed to screw up the partitioning when installing Ubuntu so this is the second try. Being careless just takes extra time when the disks are empty.
An interesting observation is that I get much lower wlan signal in Ubuntu than in Windows. The card is a Netgear WG311. I have read that it can be because of old drivers in Ubuntu. I’ll try to use ndiswrapper to run the same driver I use in Windows.
If I manage to find a program to watch television via my TV-card in Ubuntu I can get rid of the Windows install all together. Hmm, it might work with Wine. I’ll give that a try.
Why I think Vista sucks.
Yesterday Windows Vista pushed me over the edge, I’m so back to Ubuntu whenever I can.
Something hogged both CPU cores and the disk. Windows was totally unresponsive. After a while it blue screened and when it restarted it had to run chkdisk.
I’ve got an Acer 8204 (Dual Core, 2GB ram) but everyting in the user interface is slow. If I click a ‘folder’ in the start menu it takes a couple of seconds before I see the items in it. So to open Word with the mouse takes almost ten seconds.
Copying files is so slow it’s a joke.
I often have to reboot for it to find my wifi.
I have to run Visual Studio as adminstrator (even after the update) because one of the applications I work on need elevated privileges.
It’s so slow compared to Windows XP that get things done faster when running XP in VmWare inside Ubuntu.
There are more of us that are annoyed:
Does Anything Work in Vista??
A quick instruction on how to install SVN on Ubuntu
mindwarp.net » Blog Archive » SVN and you
Hillarious theme for Ubuntu
This is definitively the way to go for soulless Windows users 
If only someone had told me about apropos earlier.
I took the final test for a Linux introduction course at the university today. I think I passed but as usual I was a bit sloppy.
Anyway, what I really wanted to say was that apropos is such a time saver for the Linux newbie that I think it should be mentioned a hundred times by each graphical Linux installer.
I hope this will help someone moving from Windows to Linux.
Mount your EXT2 Partition On Windows NT/2K/XP (EXT3 too) driver
Here is an EXT2 driver for Windows XP. So now we can mount the Linux partition in XP too.
Using VPC-images in VMWare
In this article there are some tips for running VPC-images in VMWare.
Since I mostly run Ubuntu at home this might help me evaluate some server products from Microsoft.
