BLOGical Thoughts

Thanks to members of the North Idaho Linux Users Group, on Saturday I installed Windows 2000 on the recently resurrected computer I’ve been working on. At that point, I put the driver disk in that came with the motherboard, and discovered that there are no drivers on it to support Windows 2000. So Windows is stuck in 640×480, 16-color mode. That is completely unacceptable.

When I got the machine home, I installed Ubuntu 9.04 over the Windows 2000 installation, as Ubuntu does support the new motherboard. I downloaded all the updates and also installed VirtualBox. In VirtualBox I created a new virtual machine and installed Windows 2000 in that. Since the virtual devices that VirtualBox presents to the VM have their own drivers, I now have a Windows 2000 installed for the machine with driver support. So it is running with 24-bit color and the display size is 1152 X 864, which fits quite well as a window in a 1280 x 1024 display.

Now that I have a working machine, I need to reinstall some of the software that was install in the original. I still have all the files that were on the original machine, so it shouldn’t be too hard to do that - just tedious.

Silly sign of the day:

Free/Open Source Software

• A Beginner’s Guide to Free Software Programming Languages
• Is Ubuntu Linux Ready for the Enterprise?
• How to Customize Your Linux Desktop - From GTK to Compiz
• 9 of the Best Free Linux Debuggers
• Ingres benefits from Oracle ‘arrogance’
• Conspiracy Theories and the ‘Smoking Gun’
• 10 Great Apps to Convert Audio & Video Files in Linux

“It’s Mine, and You Have to Pay (and Pay and Pay) For It”

• Copyfraud
• Amazon cuts relationships with N.C. affiliates
• Could The RIAA Stop Piracy By Coming Up With A More Compelling Story?
• Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain
• Pirate Bay starts video streaming
• Play it again: Tenenbaum team tries to toss MediaSentry evidence
• British music boss: we should have embraced Napster

Local and Other News

• Rogers Again Injects Web Pages With Its Own Content
• The ACLU defends anonymous newspaper commenters
• Unlike The AP, It Looks Like Reuters Recognizes The Future
• Comics creator stopped by TSA for carrying script about writer under suspicion by TSA
• Opinion: Death knell heard for Microsoft and really all proprietary efforts
• Girls Aloud net obscenity case falls at first hurdle
• Microsoft Limits Free Windows 7 Upgrades
• Boxee vs. Zinc vs. Hulu
• Bill O’Reilly’s Argument For Abolishing Freedom Of The Press