Harsh Shah

Member since: Jan 25th, 2006

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Day One On Linux: What Would You Miss? (Download Squad)

Sep 18th 2008 11:23AM I tried to make the switch to Ubuntu about 3 months ago. The biggest thing I missed on the first day were nice fonts. After installation, the first thing I did was option iGoogle in Firefox, and cringed at the horrible looking fonts. It took me a lot of searching and changing config files to get the fonts to a comfortable level, and even then not as good as firefox in windows.

After I got comfortable with the display, I was actually surprised to find I didnt' need windows at all. I was perfectly happy with Ubunut. And then suddenly one day, it wouldn't let me log in. I just don't know what got messed (it's been a while and I can't remember the error message). That's when I missed a critical feature any OS must have: System Restore. At that point, I wasn't ready to reinstall Ubuntu and go through the fonts and other configuration all over again, so I went back to XP.

So these are the two features I missed: nice fonts out of the box and system restore. Not a lot to ask from a modern OS in my opinion.

Yojimbo: Organize your "other stuff" (Download Squad)

Jan 25th 2006 4:33PM Paid or not, it's a good post considering all the 'organization' software and webapps available in the market. it's highly relevent. I was wondering if there is anything like this available for windows. I have over 1000 pdf files (i'm a phd student), and while desktop search is a great option, I also like to have everything categorized/tagged.