Now fully working in Ubuntu Linux

I got Ubuntu installed and up and running on my machine at work.

Its great to back in the Linux environment after being in Windows:( for so long.

Getting everything up and running was a bit of a process and I’ll post more about getting Rails and Ruby code editing up as well as some of the other problems I’ve had, like mouse issues, and sound issues, and network issues.

I love the easy of getting new applications with sudo apt-get install

I don’t love Banshee’s lack of podcast support. By this I mean no chapters menu, and it burns podcasts as all one track to CD unlike iTunes.

Why isn’t iTunes supported on Linux?

I hate DRM music from iTunes – I can’t listen to a third of my music in Banshee or anything for that matter.

I love workspaces

I love assigning my keyboard shortcuts (even made my own in firefox)

Uninstalled BackTrack2, removed dual boot, back to Vista.

So my wireless card was supposed to work right off the bat with BackTrack so I could start breaking WEP128 encryption on wireless networks. But as it turns out BackTrack doesn’t recognize the wireless switch on the outside of my laptop.

So for the uninstall.

1. I didn’t want to just delete the partitions because I wanted to remove the bootloader LILO first.

2. I ran the command

lilo -u /dev/sda

at a terminal window in Linux.

3. It told me my disk was busy and it couldn’t be removed :(

4. A tutorial told me to boot up with the live cd and unmount all the drives and it should remove it

5. I mounted and unmounted the drives several times and ran the same command above on all the different partitions sda1-sda7 but it now tells me it can’t find LILO signature on any drive…so maybe the first command worked after all?

6. I rebooted and LILO was gone and Windows Vista started almost normally – it froze after the loading screen but I rebooted and I got to the login screen. YAY I didn’t fry my laptop.

7. Now to try either for Mac OS X install or maybe switch to