Peder’s Blog

… It’s been a while since I last posted here, isn’t it?

This has been one strange day. First I choose to install Ubuntu Linux on and old laptop laying around in the house, and while I’m installing some applications my mom calls me.

I go into the TV Room and see a ‘Virus Checker’ running on her computer, I immidatly recognize that as a Virus, it already had killed the copy of AVG on the computer, and the Windows Task Manager. I shut it down without letting it go through the shutdown procedure, hopefully to stop it from rooting itself in any deeper than it was, and booted it off of the same Ubuntu CD I had used in the old laptop. I copied all of the Documents to a portable Harddrive, and started a Virus Check through ClamAV

I go for a walk, and decide to install AVG For Linux on my Desktop to check the drive that I copied the documents to. During the install, the installer started showing a large number of errors, then my machine crashed. X_X

AVG had CORRUPTED the Partition that Ubuntu was installed in!

It took a fair amount of time and 4 reboots before I could get back to a usable desktop, My documents are fine, since I save them to a different partition, but all of this has caused this day to be … eventful.

Wow… Strange day.

Today was the official release of Windows 7, I think that Microsoft has figured out what it did wrong with Vista, as 7 is much better.  I don’t think that they’ll pull many people that changed to Mac or Linux back easily though.

In other news, Ubuntu 9.10 is due to be out in 7 days … 1 week after windows 7!  

I must say that Ubuntu Karmic Koala  (9.10) is shaping up very well, it looks much better, has many more wallpapers… overall it will be a great OS as well.

On a non Operating system topic, Anyone that comes here should look at this neat video.

To see the video in higher quality, go here: Big Buck Bunny

This video was made with Blender on the Ubuntu Linux Operating System. Neat that free software can do so much in the hands of experienced people!

I got a hold of Windows 7 Professional edition a little while ago, after using it for a day, I feel that Microsoft is doing much better than it did with Vista.  My only complaint is on the fact that the ‘Superbar’ is twice as wide as the old taskbar, and I cannot add extra toolbars on the other edges of the screen.  Most people won’t think about those things, well Netbook owners may have some issues…

All in all, Windows 7 is a great OS.  Now I’ve got to test out Ubuntu 9.10