This is by far the best and most relevant comparison of Windows Vista and Ubuntu Linux I’ve read(1).
(1) – it’s also the _only_ comparison of Vista and Ubuntu I’ve read
Archive for April, 2007
Vista vs Ubuntu
Saturday, April 28th, 2007Things I regret…
Saturday, April 21st, 2007…not paying more attention in English.
The biggest reason I don’t write much here, is not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s that I have no idea how to say it.
It takes me so long to write anything – particularly if it’s an opinion, rather than a simple account -that the very thought of going through that is enough to kill the desire pretty thoroughly.
I’m not entirely sure High School English would have helped anyway – I can’t remember ever being taught really _how_ to write, I just remember being required to do so, and lots of time staring at a blank piece of paper.
Even this bloody post has taken me 15 minutes…
The ups and downs of ADSL2+
Monday, April 16th, 2007
I think TPG needs to do something about their upstream bandwidth. My modem syncs at between 9 and 10 Mb consistently, and the speed to TPG themselves is very consistent too, but the actual speed to the internet is very hit and miss. On a lot of nights, I would have been better off back on my old 1.5Mb ADSL
It’s Alive!
Monday, April 9th, 2007
The transition is nearly complete – welcome to my new server!
I’ve gone from a dedicated server down to a virtual server, but apart from a little less disk space everything is better – it has faster CPU, faster network, more memory, and it costs less.
Also, I’m now using Plesk instead of having to deal with everything myself – which will hopefully make life much easier for me in the long run.
Dual Core Heaven
Sunday, April 1st, 2007A load level of 14 – compiling KDE4 (using a three way parallel build), while starting a VMWare virtual machine from a USB drive, while copying 4 gig of data from a different USB drive to the local drive, and everything is still wonderfully responsive. My laptop or the old Music computer would have given up in disgust by now!
blue smoke again
Sunday, April 1st, 2007My music computer decided to go down in a blaze of glory a few nights ago. Emphasis on the blaze. I don’t know if flames were actually involved, but smoke certainly was. The house still stinks of it.
The power supply burnt out, and it seems it took the motherboard with it when it went, so $796 later, I have a new computer.
I took a different route to normal this time – I bought a pre-assembled system from the computer fair. I decided that I just couldn’t be bothered going to the effort of finding all the parts and assembling it myself – not this time at least.
The new machine is an Athlon 64 X2 3800, with 2G of memory, a 250GB hard drive, a GeForce 7100 video card and a Dual layer DVD writer.
The components – particularly the case, motherboard and video card – are probably not what I would have chosen, had I picked them myself, but it’ll do. It’s certainly an improvement over the Athlon XP 1700+ it’s replacing.
I had intended it as an interim computer until I can afford to buy something better, but it’s probably good enough to serve as my primary desktop machine for the foreseeable future – particularly with a video card upgrade. I still want two more though – a high end machine for music, and a budget (even more so than this one) one as my file and backup server. The latter is probably next on the list, as my current server appears to have gone out in sympathy.
However, there shall be no more computer purchases until I’ve had time to actually save some money – I have a goal of $3000 for September, the fact that I was able to manage this unexpected $800 indicates that it should be possible, but only if I don’t have to spend $800 on unexpected expenses every bloody month.
In the mean time, I suspect my backup server will have to live on as a VMWare instance…