The Migration

I've been fooling around with Ubuntu, the GNOME based debian linux distro, for the past few weeks on my laptop, but it never really stuck with me. It's probably because I never had the willpower to tough it out and figure out how most of the stuff worked. But today, I started doing some work in R and AFNI and I figured it was best to collaborate with the lab in the OS that the lab uses (they actually use Fedora 6, but its similar). So I spent most of the day fixing up the linux environment, install codecs, an NTFS read/write/mounter to access my windows partitions, created network bookmarks to my shares for easy access and install a bunch of google applications.

The only thing that's keeping from making the full jump and moving ubuntu up to #1 on my grub loader is my lack of a notetaking program on the linux boot. I really want to use OneNote like I've been using for awhile, so I'm trying a virtual machine to boot into windows and run OneNote in a separate task. The problem that worries me is whether the interface will work well, whether it'll be fast enough, and whether I can live with it at whatever speed it is...if not, I'm really hoping that Google Notebook updates to be usable offline with Google Gears.

Until that happens though, I'm gonna try to make it work.

Oh, and I installed a media server on my desktop, so I can access my TV shows from anywhere. I think. I'm gonna try it out tomorrow in class.