I have got alot of work to complete recently – my algorithms assignment, software engineering and final programming project (to be uploaded in the not to distant future).
So I, Andy Callaghan, officially blame Windows Vista for making my life even more stressful by ‘contracting’ a virus mid-programming and doing my work.
Due to the Windows virus, I got banned from the Uni network. The viral traffic was detected by the Universities firewalls. They completely locked me down… no email or web (except the windows update site, naturally). I was crapping myself. I couldn’t access (still can’t to a degree) my network drive in the University so none of my work could be accessed.
After installing all the anti-virus software they could throw at me, they unbanned then quickly banned me again a day after with the same reason – Poebot virus traffic.
All of this, was occurring on a fully up-to-date legal version of Windows Vista – reportedly the most secure operating system that M$ have ever produced. Safe? Yeah right. The user-access control is a joke! (but you can Cancel of Allow anything that the system may do!).
It is simply not sensible to trust all my work and grades in an insecure system.
I duly formatted the Vista infestation off of my machine, and reinstalled Win XP.
To add insult to injury the Windows installer, of course, completely scrubbed the boot sector of my drive for it’s own boot loader, erasing GRUB – so I couldn’t boot into openSuse. I rebuilt the boot-loader from the openSuse disk, to then find that Windows had corrupted my root drive for Linux.
A re-install of openSuse allowed me to see that my t’internet connection had been re-enabled as my entire machine was functioning in openSuse. However in Windows, after a fresh install and driver install of what I could, the following still don’t work.
- Network
- Sound
- Dual screen (even with Nvidia drivers installed)
- Webcam, printer and scanner (but these are less important)
I am now enjoying openSuse, merely because it works perfectly and is a lot less likely to lose my work by viruses. Kdevelop rocks!
This is a picture of my openSuse desktop, in all of it’s dual-head transparency loveliness.
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