Study Notes

TurboxLinux is latest to sign Microsoft Pact. TurboLinux, headquartered in Japan, sells Linux systems mostly in emerging markets such as China and India.

Linux hold to its ideals of freedom and openess.
A smear of memory means the there’s something dirty on the memory.
A shagged battery describes the cables are mess.

I VNC in it from around the planet to keep it on it toes.
I know why, and I know it’s an old complaint but it remains a real problem.
Know enough about what’s going on to correctly diagnose problems.

So here’s the funny thing, I’ve used Windows since 1.0. I’ve lived through the bad times of Windows 386 and ME, and the good times of NT3.5 and 2K. I know XP if not backwards, then with a degree of familarity that only middle-aged co-dependents can afford each other.

Then how come I’m so much more at home with Ubuntu(Gusty Gibbon) than Vista? It boils down to one abiding impression. Ubuntu goes out of its way to get out of your way, even if it doesn’t succeed all the time. Vista goes out its way to be Vista and enforce Vista way. You must conform regardless of the implications.