Some months back I acquired a nice practically brand-new quad-core box. The fellow I got in from was kind enough to install it as a dual-boot with Fedora and Vista.
What a pleasure it has been to to have to lug the laptop home and use it to tunnel in to work to get meaningful work done from home without worrying about whether things will fail in mysterious ways, and being able to configure my own imap server if I want to. Like all Vista machines, that laptop functions like an old VW Bug with funky quirks that don't apply to any other such machine ("reverse doesn't work, and you have to be gentle nudging it into second or it will stall"). In my case, the cursed laptop refuses to install anything except (mirable dictu, touch wood) Firefox updates.
In any event, after lo! these many months, I have never once felt anything close to the need to actually boot to Vista on my new box. Until yesterday, dang.
This is all my son's fault. He was playing with a fractal drawing tool I had installed, and wanted more. Since he mostly uses a Windows box, he went looking for something that would run on Windows. And he found a truly astonishing bit of donation-ware: Incendia. If you are remotely interested in computer art, or fractals, go check it out and toss the author some money, because he deserves it. Or check out some of the samples. Here's one my son did.
Bad news for me: this doesn't run on Linux, and really, nothing remotely close to it runs on Linux. So if I want to play too, I have to boot to Vista. Of course, it is Vista, and in this case I have to log in as administrator to run the program or suffer outrageous flicker.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
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