Euge’s Ramblings

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Archive for January, 2009

Jan-9-2009

Got the Windows 7 beta

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Seems good; nice and fast.  Took forever to get it; can’t imagine why MS didn’t torrent this.  Now if only I can get a key from MS…

EDIT 1/10-10:10 am — 3,000 refreshes from work later, I now have a key!  What a pita!!!

Posted under Windows
Jan-1-2009

My desktop is all Mint-y


I finally replaced Vista for good on my laptop.  The only question is what distro I was going to install; either Ubuntu, Suse, Ultimate, etc.  I tried out Linux Mint which seems to simplify get Linux to work out of the box.  I also like the simplified start menu rather than the 2 panel approach that Ubuntu utilizes.  We’ll see how long this will last.

Edit 1/3:  Well Mint lasted all of six+ hours; was installing the stuff I always do with U and had no trouble until I installed BOINC (which made my laptop cry & lock up; a first!).  But after uninstalling BOINC it didn’t seem happy (more lockup craziness) so I scrapped it and moved back to U.

One of the more funnier linux stories. :D

Posted under Linux