Deltanine

Sorry no posts lately, but in an attempt to restructure the partitions on my main hard drive something went wrong. Actually multiple things went wrong, from the repartition program, to the "restore" aspect of my backup program, to the inability to Windows to recognise SATA hard drives, to the lack of support in drivers for said drives. I have lost all respect for certain companies, and in future know to look at the support forums to check out any complaints.

Consequently I am starting from scratch, and since I haven't reinstalled for about 3 years (I imaged my old computers hard drive to the new one) I have many many preferences and setting for each program that I need to modify. It's nice having a clean slate though.
This time around I'm going to plan carefully what software actually gets installed, and try to keep it to a minimum. I have set up a couple of test environments, one Redhat and another XP, and I'll probably set up a few more, and test the worthiness of new software there first before committing to anything.

What is interesting is that the first programs I've installed are the free ones: Thunderbird, Firefox, Open Office, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Filezilla, AVG 7 Free, Kerio, Media Player Classic, Winamp 5. About the only non free software I am running is my Palm Desktop, but I guess that came "free" with my Palm.

Business has been good lately too, so between that and reconfiguring my system, and looking after the whanau there's not much time left even for web surfing.