I was required to re-boot for an update, forgot to exit boinc and when the reboot was complete, CPDN (running) and all my Milkyway units (not-running) generated client-errors. No other units, runing or not, were affected.

Hi Windy

As your computers are hidden we can\'t look at your server webpage for your CPDN model. Does it still show as running in the boinc manager Tasks window?

It\'s a good idea to regularly back up the complete contents of the boinc folder in case there\'s a disaster and the model crashes. Restore the backup, continue crunching the same model. Backup methods in the README through my sig.

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work unit: 6111428
result: 7033723

only ran for 3 days before the Windows update error (the laptop is only slightly older than the crashed work unit)

new work unit downloaded: 6110928

using an AMD Turion 64 ×2 TL-58

As for backing up - only if it is automated as I have enough on the go without having to worry about more Windows problems.

Now if I could find a manufacturer that would let me buy a new laptop, without Windows or any other software installed, so I could instal Ubuntu Linux... well... there\'d be fewer worries.

I think what you have to do is install the Linux distro of your choice in a separate partition, so you then have both Windows and Linux on the same computer.

If you build a desktop computer yourself or have it built for you, you can start with an empty disk, no Windows. But as far as I know laptops are always sold with an OS ready installed. Maybe somebody knows a way to avoid pre-installed Windows on laptops?

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Yeah, I experimented with dual partitions on an older laptop but didn\'t like it even though I learnt Ubuntu that way. I prefer one o/s per computer. As for this one... there are several nice features that I doubt Ubuntu will, properly, support until the next release.

Rumour has it, on this side of the Atlantic (Canada) that some of the big names (HP? Dell?) will be selling laptops with Ubuntu next year. As for pricing... should be cheaper than Windows uless the manufactures decide to take extra profit. Whether they will still gouge the Canadian public (35% premium over the exchange rate)...

As for this one, it was heavily discounted so it was almost as cheap as the U.S. retail store price - though with a bi-lingual (Fr/En) keyboard.

As for desktops - the next one I build will be a Linux or OpenBSD version.

If they sell Ubuntu preinstalled that will increase its popularity. Lots of people are put off Linux when they see the length and complexity of the instructions for installing some versions of it.

Is your Canadian bilingual keyboard a kwerty or an azerty? I\'m tired of typing in number key codes for other languages but I don\'t want to buy a keyboard in France because they use azerty and it\'s not what I\'m used to. I may get my next keyboard in Spain because they use qwerty and need all the accents for Catalan and Spanish, as well as the double dot like the German umlaut and the ç. On the other hand, some emails I receive from France and Spain don\'t display the accented vowels correctly.

On your bilingual keyboard have you got separate extra keys specifically for the accents that don\'t move the typeface forward? Like on old typewriters where you first typed the accent and then the vowel which placed itself underneath. Or have you got an extra row or block of keys, each being a different accented vowel?

In England I haven\'t yet found anything designed for languages other than English. There must be some specialist shops in London but I have yet to find them.

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It\'s a qwerty board. There are quite a few French characters but I changed the language/keyboard to UK English (Canadian English is too American the way it is presented by Microsoft) with a U.S. International keyboard. Alas, they changed some of the letter availability and can\'t, easily, do Œ/œ any more but other like ß are CTRL+ALT+S, é = \'+e, ê = ^+e, ö = \"+o, etc..

Hi Chinook,

Regarding your Vista query, I\'ve just added a new \'Vista\' section into the \'README - crashes and other problems\' post (the link is in my signature). If you reduce the speed of Vista\'s shutdown (which is very aggressive) it may help.

-Cheers,

Mike

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let me try to summarize a few years in this O/S wars.
In 2005, I installed Redhat Linux - Fedpora Core 6.
I got a cd from one the official RH Reseller.
I installed as a dual boot on an old machine - Dell
- Intel - 733 mHZ - 512mb ram - 10 Mb hard disk, and
and a 512MB usb drive (don\'t go here get a big hd drive if affordable).
This configuration is still working well. I have completed multiple
climate projects on a 7 year old \'obsolete\' machine.
Obsolescence is in the mind of Bill Gates.

Regardless of which Linux verion or distribution, I advise
you pay the penny to the provider the first time. Get the CD!!!
I paid $10 to the distibution provider. This is pennies on the dead man\'s
eye compared to the $300 plus paybable to Microsoft.

!!
This mail is composed on SUSE V10 - XP Dual boot.
I recommmend both.
I still love and use Fedora Core 6/