Paul & Group -
Ubuntu is indeed good at hardware probing & installation.
The Fun starts when WIndoze XP stops getting security updates and new
software stops supporting it :^)
Anyway - I though I would email this Apple trip- trap ...
 Fly & Build Good
Bryan In England

Paul,  i would like to recommend a free virus removing tool that we have
been using for a few months on windows based operating systems. It is called
spybot-search and destroy. Available on the Microsoft site but I downloaded
it from their own site with yahoo. It removed 6 viruses, 52 Trojans and 120
plus questionable files from my wifes computer and found 3 viruses on mine.
It also can scan full time so that you don't have to run it from the desktop
after the fact. We had one hiding inside the search engines and could not
edit them out or reinstall the search engines. Mozilla fire-fox and Internet
explorer were both inoperable.  Administrator privileges were grayed out,
files were hidden and  it compromised the date coding of files. Spybot-
search and destroy cleaned out 320GB hard drives in less than 10 minutes.

george grimes

That is disgusting. Switch to Linux for all your Internet use.
Keep the Windoze computer for stuff that does not run on Linux.
That is what I do.

Paul Lamar


Paul and all:

I've mention this to a number of people before, but I've
recently had some more successes, so will give you an update.

My newest notebook/laptop computer, a Lenovo, came shipped with
Windows 7 installed.
I earned my living for the past 25 years developing custom
software for education, business, and industry.
And though I am now semi-retired, I still support a couple of my
clients, the most noteable being the Wisconsin Dept of
Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection.
State/Federal certification of grain shipped worldwide via the
St Lawrence Seaway (mostly out of the port of Superior,
Wisconsin) is handled with my software.

Big problem ... my stuff would not run under Windows 7.
Microsoft supposedly allows one to downgrade to XP in such
situations,
but the MS Support people in India could never understand what I
was talking about, so I finally gave up trying to explain.

I reformatted my hard drive and installed Ubuntu.
After trying various ways to run my client's software, the best
solution I have developed so far is to
install Oracles VirtualBox software under Ubuntu.  It is free.
VirtualBox appears as a desktop application with an icon the the
computer screen
I installed my old copy of WinXP  within VirtualBox and
everything seems to now run great (after last weeks latest
updates to VirtualBox).

XP seems to run just as fast as it always has.
One can run XP in a Linux window, click between Linux
applications and XP applications.
One can map Linux directories to be a Windows network drives if
one wishes.

VirtualBox allows one to run any processor-compatible OS at the
same time.  I will probably run MSDOS as another virtual machine
when I get around to it.


So far everything looks good and I highly recommend it

Robin Berglund