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Old 05-19-2009, 01:06 PM   #37 (permalink)
Doofus McFancypants
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Reviving an older thread here with an update.

I have had Ubuntu on the 2nd Hard Drive for a few months now.
Only issues i have had are getting Wine to run some of the windows based games. I just need to put some time into them and work them out.

Lately i have been playing with SLAX - really cool USB bootable system - does not use the hard drive at all. I can take my entire PC on a 2 GB Flash drive. This includes the Office programs - some games - and 800MB of my ripped music.

Our Office Laptops are pretty "secure" with encription and VPN. but with the USB Flash boot - i get "My" computer instead of the work computer.

Still playing with it - but so far it is pretty neat.

steve
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First Milestone passed - 30 MPG (city) 5/15/08
Best City Tank - 8/31/09- 34.3 MPG (EPA= 20)
Best Highway Tank - 5/20/09 - 36.5 MPG (EPA= 28)
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In effort to drive less:
Miles NOT driven in 2009 = 648 (Work from home and Alt Transporatation)
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