What?! Not another one...!

Micro$oft just announced yet ANOTHER security flaw in Windows.

At the rate this is going, I'm seriously thinking of downgrading my home PC to Windows 98 SE... Or better yet, upgrading to linux.

'Course, I'll miss the games that I can play on Windows. And also the fact that linux doesn't have a decent port of QuickTime player, and considering that most trailers are in .mov format, this is quite a drag. (If anybody reading this knows of a decent linux app that plays .mov files, lemme know here. Cheers.).

Anyhoo, that's what you have dual-booting for, right? I've been telling myself that I'm gonna setup my PC for linux-readiness, but until now, I still haven't done so. Mostly because there still isn't a really easy way to do Windows-based things on a linux machine, even if you have a dual-boot system. The best, of course, is still rebooting.

Another peeve I have is that there's no package out there that allows you to write to your other OS's partition. Reading is fine (with explore2fs for reading my linux partition from windows and kernel-ntfs for windows from linux), but I still haven't found one that supports writing yet, even in root mode. Even though I did an smbmount with rw permissions and the proper mask set. Again, if anybody knows of something that does this (or if someone knows how to do it right so that it'll write as well, lemme know here. Thanks. :)).

And last, but not least, I still dunno how to get non-latin characters (read: chinese/jap/etc. characters) to display properly. Nor how to get non-latin input on linux. Which is why I still need to switch back to Windows at work now and again to do some work using Asian fonts.

Don't get me wrong, though. Despite all these things, I love using linux. It's fast and stable, which is more than what I can say for certain other OSs. :P

Anyhoo, until I've figured out how to do all these things without going back to Windows, I'll still keep using dual-boot.

Long live dual-boot! (What'll us on-the-fence-ers do without it? ;))

*ouch*

Ow... Brain... leaking... out... through... nose....

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30 July 2003

Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Happy birthday to me.

Well, someone should care...