The Old Tin Shed

Well that is the most cryptic heading so far. (quite proud of it acutally).  As you all know from previous blog posts that I have been running Linux (ubuntu) for a couple months now.  To be honest its probably good enough for most people but not for me. It has some really annoying things.  The Unity desktop is slow and painful when multitasking and the removal of the close minimize maximize buttons from right to left is just stupid.  I mean most people have been using windows for years they all know where the x button is to close a screen.  Unity is horrible they say its intuitive but its not, you are constantly having to think about how you get to the next thing you need to do.  That and a propensity to deliver pages from email and web browsing that are blank is maddening as it needs a full reboot to fix.. remind anyone of windows. Sound out of the box works fine just don't ask it to do anything complic...

Wow, is all I can say.  The software is finally installed and working, some 11 emails to tech support and struggling to get my head around why things were not working.  If linux has one fault when it comes to these things its that it is very complicated.  Each step in the process showed up because something had not been thought about in the previous step, so we were lurching from one error to another. Most of this can be countered however with a more comprehensive how to for the install of the vendor software.  Things like make sure you have all the updates installed, make sure you set your static IP in advance of any install, make sure you disable SElinux and the correct way to do that.  I have learnt about iptables and how to work those and firewall exceptions that are actually separate.  All in all have accumulated a large amount of data on how linux workings are different to windows. As per the last post if you have no desire to ever go to...