Miss my camera #1

While I was returning home last Friday, a neighbours kid ran down the street to welcome her mother. The kid was an year or two old, not yet fluid in walking. She was walking as fast as she could, scaring me a little that she would stumble. She didn't care. She had a happy expression on her face, very infectious. Her eyes were only on her mother and her hands spread wide for a hug. It was beautiful. One of those moments you would want to capture and store forever. I really missed my camera at that moment. May be its better as a memory. You need a really good photographer to capture the joy on the kids face at that moment.

This Linux is not for me

Actually that title should read "This Linux is not only for me". I recently bought two laptops one for my parents(with preloaded Win7) and one for me with FreeDos. I chose Win7 for my parents because I wanted things to work out of the box for them. After I installed Ubuntu on my laptop, I had to rethink if Win7 was really necessary.

The Linux installation is almost click through now. There were a couple of questions on time zone and user name etc(which I assume even windows needs). My Internet connection was auto detected. The display worked right away. The external monitor worked immediately. As soon as I logged in, I had all I need in the menu.

From Blog Pictures

1. Home directory
2. Firefox
3. Libre office(word, excel, ppt)
4. A music player(Banshee, not preferred one but it was there).

I wonder if there is still a case to install Windows on a home computer. Lack of tech support in places like my hometown could be the only thing. Would that disadvantage be balanced by the lack of viruses for Linux?

My office laptop running XP boots forever. This Linux system booted in under a minute which is quite amazing. I wonder how someone would argue the case for Chrome OS.