My windows machine was moving insanely slowly. something was going on behind the scenes that was crippling the machine and I could not take it any more.
My first step was to try to reinstall windows. After getting it installed I ran the windows updater and installed several "critical updates". After installing Xp service pack 3 no other updates would install. All it would say was that "some problem on your computer is causing installation to fail". I went through this several times and finally said Enough.
Ubuntu 8.04, Hardy Heron sounded like the way to go. I have messed around with Linux before and wanted to see what it would do on a decent machine. I have to say my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop is running better with Linux that it ever did with Windoze. I have a few things that are not working yet, but I can probably work around them.
There is a Netgear Storage Central server on my network that has no linux drivers. I tried installing it in a virtualbox vm. It looked like it installed ok, but I could not attach any network drives. I read about an app called crossover that is supposed to allow windows apps to run under linux. That will be my next try. If that does not work, maybe somebody will write an opensource app to use the server. My fall back is I hedged my bets when I wiped the HD and set up a 5 gig Windoze partition. I can dual boot into there, get the files I need from the server then go back into Linux and grab the files from that partition into Linux.
I need to learn a lot, but Linux is the future, so I need to move in that direction. I have a lot of windows apps, like Office, Project, Visio and Dreamweaver/Studio 8. Hopefully I can figure out how to make them work with Crossover or find something different to use, like OpenOffice.org suite.
We will see how it turns out.
bt
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