This is part 2 of my quest to convert my family’s PC from Windows to Ubuntu. If you missed the first part, please read it here. I thought that converting my family to an Ubuntu-based PC would be pretty painful, and to be honest, I thought I was going to have to reformat and install Windows. Luckily, so far it has not been the case.
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Moving a Family to Ubuntu – Part 2
Monday, May 5th, 2008Cool URIs Should Not Change, But I Never Said They Were Cool
Monday, April 28th, 2008According to some, URIs should not change. And I agree with that notion. However, the problem I have is that I didn’t give much thought into what I wanted to do. I thought this would a purely developmental blog (which is why I hosted it on the domain name that I will be releasing software under), however it quickly turned into a general computer science blog, which I am okay with. So yeah, moved it to my personal domain. It won’t happen again! I hope…
Moving a Family to Ubuntu – Part 1
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008The Back Story
Since I am the token computer scientist of my family, of course everyone comes to me for all their computer problems, which most of the time is due to spyware/malware. It happens. I get it, despite my best efforts it happens. I tell them to use Firefox, someone slips up and uses Internet Explorer the one day they go to a bad site. Even if they use Firefox, someone downloads something and runs it there-by borking (technical term) their system. Files get deleted, changed, what have you. Things just go wrong. Yes it is ultimately the user’s fault, however I do believe the operating system takes some of the blame for allowing things like this to be done in the first place. Well it has come to that time again for format another laptop and reinstall everything. Fine. I don’t mind it at all. They are family. However I am not going to just reinstall Windows again. It is time for an experiment. This time I am going to install Ubuntu 8.04.
