About a year ago, I saw some quite awesome videos on youtube, demonstrating how cool Ubuntu is. Looks really really COOL.

I thought I ought to give it a shot, but apparently I'm not a very lucky man. Last year I tried to install Ubuntu 8 on my Lenovo T61P... damn display drivers not supported. Spent quite a while googling, and the only thing I found was, that others with the same laptop had the same issue.

Recently Ubuntu 9 was released, and I thought to give it another shot. This time I'd install it on my MacBook Air.... IO device error on reboot after installation.... that sucks!

Installing Windows7 on it again, since I know it works!

Update 20090622:  Somebody at the office asked me, if I really do waste time on stuff like this. The answer is yes, I waste a lot of time, on a lot of ridiculous things. The youtube video, that really kicked of my curiosity on ubuntu can be found here: Vista vs. Ubuntu

Just reinstalled my primary laptop with Windows 7 RC. To try out something new I decided to install the 64 bit version. The installation worked pretty smooth. About an hour after I started the install, I had a running laptop. No drivers needed or any stuff like that.

So far I only discovered two issues running the Windows 7 64 bit version. Cisco discontinued developing ther VPN client for 64 bit operating systems. Apparently they build a new client called "Cisco AnyConnect". The only bitch about this is, that you have to be a registered user to download the software. I never understood that thing with Cisco - a little bit of googling and you have the client.

Daemon tools cannot be installed yet, I hope Daemon up them selves for RTM - they seem really ignorant saying "we don't support beta os's" (Bastards). This especially annoys me, because all of the downloads from MSDN is provided as an iso. At least they can be unpacked with winrar, wich basically wants me to forget that Daemon tools exists.

The conclusion of my freshly installed RC as a primary machine is: Cool. The more I start using Windows 7, the more impressed I get. Microsoft has really done a great job on this one.

During my easter holidays, I had some sparetime for once, and I needed to reinstall my laptop. The choice was to downgrade to XP or reinstall Vista. I got really tired with Vista, now that's an operating system, that should have never been released.

But since my current customer provides me with a spare laptop, I don't accually use my own these days, so I thought why not give Windows 7 a shot even though it's in Beta.

My first findings was sweet. Win7 is still nothing compared to OsX, but Microsoft really upped them selves on this one. Compared to Vista it is soooooo snappy, and I really love what they did with the taskbar. Off course it's in beta, so there'll be some downs as well:

gr8:

• New taskbar UI is brilliant
• From computer management you can attach a virtual image (vhd) as an extra harddrive
• When docking my Lenovo, I've had big problems with display settings under Vista - these disapeared with win7
• Windows Mobile Device Center connects to my mobile device, _every_ time. This rarely happened with Vista (or XP and Active Sync)

Downers (Hopefully due to beta):

• Some times my laptop goes to sleep mode for no reason, even while using the laptop (Solved: this only occurs while AVG virus scanner is running)
• Some times it boots into repair mode, but can't repair. Shut down the laptop, go for a smoke, try again and it boots