While I still haven’t solved the whole “you don’t have administrator rights” thing in XP Pro, I thought I would go ahead and get crazy last night and install HardyHeron (Ubuntu 8.04)desktop edition on my laptop using Wubi to install it inside XP as a virtual environment.

The installation is pretty slick, and once done it loads very fast. Nice desktop. Now the real fun begins. I can’t get it to see my wireless network and it doesn’t see my 19″ Acer AL1916 LCD monitor. Ah the joys of working on computers If I can figure out the wireless problem then I’ll probably download the server edition and throw it on either my old P3 500MHz box, or the old P4 1.7GHz box that belongs to the company, add a wireless card and toss that in the basement (they’re both noisy) and use it for a home server.

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