Here is the graph of my DNS queries in the past month via opendns
Notice how the left is about 10 times taller than the right. What changed? Switching over to Linux, and that's it. I'm still doing basically the same thing as before. You can see that from the graph of unique domains.
Now, it does [...]
You blew it. I have simple demands. Browse the internet, use AIM, listen to music, develop with python and php+mysql, seed my torrents, occasionally use Word, and watch the occasional video, and do all that without restarting every 24-48 hours to not be completely bogged down, and you fail at that horrendously.
At around the [...]
Wireshark works with it!
That might not be impressive all by itself, but my damn wireless card had never worked with it. I guess the Netgear drivers just suck that much, since we already know they don't do 64 bit drivers. But Vista's default driver for it seems to do the job. Sweet. Now I [...]
I been trying to install Ubuntu and got the 64 bit edition up and running, but the only way for my Netgear wireless card was with ndiswrapper, and Netgear insists on not making any 64 bit drivers. I searched around and found this thread, which shows how to make this driver. I thought it would [...]
So, I've been thinking, which usually leads to me doing stupid things, which could be where this is going, but anyways, do I really need Windows? This comes after Vista took almost 8 minutes to extract a 700 MB archive locking up my computer multiple time while doing it, which I would've started downloading Edgy [...]
It does have better security, kinda. Like programs, even being run while your logged in as admin, don't have access to other program files and such. It has a special 'Run As Administrator' link now, but UAC is annoying as hell. Got rid of that pretty quickly. All I have to say to it is:
Control [...]