Creeva’s World 2.0

So last night I did try to turn my lap­top into a hack­in­tosh, and it didn’t turn out so well.  After instal­la­tion I seemed to have an issue with my video not work­ing (ironic that it works for the instal­la­tion screens).  I futzed with it for awhile and since have given up on it.    I’m will­ing to work around issues and change my methodogy to do some­thing becuase I’m not using it the way it’s sup­posed to be used (part of the mantra of every­thing I do — My old home net­work used to have 16 PC’s on it).  I can only go so far in futz­ing before it’s more a nui­sance and get’s in the way of get­ting things done.

After fol­low­ing the Kalway steps that should have enabled to work, I relented and went back to Ubuntu Hardy Heron 64 Bit — a fresh install (plus the addi­tion of 2 GB of ram) has mad it more “peppy” then it was before.   I guess my next step will be work­ing on get­ting VMware work­ing so I can get the cou­ple win­dows pro­grams (Finale) that I want to work with run­ning on my lap­top.   One great thing about a fresh install is that Ubuntu detected my wire­less NIC right away — that took a cou­ple hours to get work­ing when I first installed Gutsy Gibbon.

Xie had been hav­ing issues with Vista and we salavaged her data and loaded Ubuntu on her lap­top as well.  She remarked to me that it seemed to sim­ple.   I explained how com­plex do you need your oper­at­ing sys­tem to appear?  We’ll see how it goes with her, if she likes it, and if she’ll stick with it.   She has become a bit more like me in the belief of the cloud com­put­ing dream and as long as the browser func­tions as well she’ll learn to work around every­thing else.

I can say that I did have mixed feel­ing migrat­ing to OSX since I wouldn’t be able to test Gnome Con­duit any­more (except the N810 port), which would make it alot harder for me to work on doc­u­men­ta­tion.   Regard­less it seems I’m now a linux for life type of guy, though it’s not like I don’t have an XP desk­top 5 feet away from me, a 2k3 server in a base­ment, a first gen mac mini in the next room hooked to the TV, and my work assigned Mac Book Air next to this lap­top.   Maybe since the N810 is linux based I should have done a BSD on this lap­top?   I do think I’m very com­fort­able switch­ing between OS’s and machines.