Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7
I was working on a Windows 7 machine today and was surprised to find that when I booted an Ubuntu 11.10 Live CD that it couldn’t see the partitions created by Windows 7. All Ubuntu 11.10 saw was an empty hard drive. I’ve been ranting about the direction of Ubuntu since 10.04 when I said [...]
Switches needed!
The Working Centre’s Computer Recycling Project has been getting a lot of generous hardware donations lately from individuals and businesses. We’re starting to replenish some of our 40GB hard drives (but can always use more hard drives and RAM). We’ve been swamped with repairs and building new systems. During this time we had a 24 [...]
Have I made our son paranoid to use Windows for ecommerce?
An interesting thing happened this evening. My wife and I have both switched to Linux. Our son however has resisted and I don’t force it on him. But this evening he wanted to do an e-commerce transaction online and did not want to do it on his computer – he preferred to do it on [...]
