the day finally came when I had to reformat my laptop and couldnt activate the OS (windows obviously). the OS was legit and I had paid my taxes to microsoft and no it was only used on that laptop ever. the guy on the phone asked me some questions that I could not answer because I was out of the office blah blah blah.
and I was desperately in need of doing some very critical work. I ended up doing it on a LiveCD booted linux system. with the files on the hard drive that I used to open in windowes.
I was lucky that I knew about the choice available and now have a livecd with me at all times, and one on the USB and one on the emergency folder at the office.
It was a day that profoundly changed my attitude to how I do work with computers.
if there is something I can not do in linux for free that I really need, I will gladly pay a couple of programmers in the community to have that peace of code written for me under GPL. thus it will always be available and free.
nearly all apps I use are OS independent now. simply because they are opensource or made available by parent companies and thus can and have been ported to windows and BSD and linux and mac and some to whatever phoneos there is. OR are web2.0 thus can be reached through a browser.
Who is moving away from the linux os on netbooks? I have not seen that happening. to the contrary, though slow, I have seen more and more people installing linux at least as dualboot on their computers.
well thats some more keystrokes for you, but I write as I have some free time to kill. :)
That was funny timebandit.
well, it did replace my desktop.
the day finally came when I had to reformat my laptop and couldnt activate the OS (windows obviously). the OS was legit and I had paid my taxes to microsoft and no it was only used on that laptop ever. the guy on the phone asked me some questions that I could not answer because I was out of the office blah blah blah.
and I was desperately in need of doing some very critical work. I ended up doing it on a LiveCD booted linux system. with the files on the hard drive that I used to open in windowes.
I was lucky that I knew about the choice available and now have a livecd with me at all times, and one on the USB and one on the emergency folder at the office.
It was a day that profoundly changed my attitude to how I do work with computers.
if there is something I can not do in linux for free that I really need, I will gladly pay a couple of programmers in the community to have that peace of code written for me under GPL. thus it will always be available and free.
nearly all apps I use are OS independent now. simply because they are opensource or made available by parent companies and thus can and have been ported to windows and BSD and linux and mac and some to whatever phoneos there is. OR are web2.0 thus can be reached through a browser.
Who is moving away from the linux os on netbooks? I have not seen that happening. to the contrary, though slow, I have seen more and more people installing linux at least as dualboot on their computers.
well thats some more keystrokes for you, but I write as I have some free time to kill. :)
Burnout.
Beware! :)