S.O.S.

I've been meaning to completely reinstall windoze for a week now. I think I got hit by a worm, see. Isn't that frustrating? With the auto-update on, two firewalls (both free) and two anti-virus programs (1 free, 1 on a one-year free trial) on and updated, you still get hit.I was supposed to reinstall last Sunday, during my off. I chose to sleep instead. So now, I'm waiting for my next day off.

I already got a test setup of Mandrake running on s seperate partition. All I need now is to find out how to do stuff. I excitedly tried stuff out this afternoon. I was all excited just trying out small stuff on the terminal (its the linux equivalent of the DOS prompt). Can't get online yet, though. One of the first things I did find out about modems is that not all modems are created equal. I bought one of those cheaper modems that you plug inside the guts of your computer. Well, it turns out they don't work on linux because software runs the darned things instead of old fashioned elctronics (chips and stuff). There are linux drivers but they cost as much as an external modem that can be bought at a local store. So why didn't I buy the external modem in the first place? The internal one I have cost a third of the price. Well now I have to buy an external one. Makes you think if everything cheap is worth it at all.

Incidentally, I found the following links for linux newbies while browsing the forums at PinoyPC.Net : The Linux Documentation Project, The Linux Newbie Adminstrator Guide. It's quite overwhelming when your met with hundreds of thousands of links when you google "linux guides", so those links from forums are really useful. Users recommending stuff to users. Well, that's it for today.