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Well, I have almost gotten everything back up and running. It was not as easy as I had hoped, but I guess any good learning experience is time well spent.
I started this process because of the failed hard drive that contained Windows Vista. I had been running just with Linux, but there was some things [...]

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Lots to do and not enough time. Today I am going to work on replacing the failed hard drive in my main PC and I will find out if the restore DVDs I made of Vista work. May be down for a while.

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I have had a major hard drive failure on my primary PC. It appears that the disk that contained the Microsoft OS Vista has died. Unfortunately, that disk contained the boot-loader for my Linux system and I am unable to boot into Linux.
I was able to boot up a live CD Linux system and backup [...]

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The title is not exactly correct. What I have done is to replace Windows 7 RC (the last free down loadable Release Candidate of Windows 7) with openSUSE 11.2.
I had been running Windows 7 RC in a dual boot configuration with Windows Vista for a few months. Windows Vista with all of the latest [...]

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While I still have more PCs running Linux than any other OS, I became a Windows Vista user because it was installed on the new PC.
With Windows 7 approaching release, there are a lot of questions being asked about the wisdom of upgrading.
Today I read an article in InfoWorld, which tells me that staying with [...]

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It has been a while since I have written about my recent hardware upgrade. I have it pretty well setup like I like now. The purchase has been a great success. I could not have touched what I bought for less than $2,000 and I got it for less than half that including upgrading to [...]

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