Windows Media

   A new Best Buy just opened nearby so this evening we went for a visit. Nice store, but the layout took some getting used to. One thing that I found interesting was the Windows XP Media Edition devices. I'm a big fan of TiVo which runs on Linux, so I was interested to see how the Windows machine worked. At first as I was playing with the remote I was impressed. Everything ran smoothly and quickly. That was until I got to the screen where I wanted to play a video, and the thing crapped out. Poor Windows...
   Tonight I'm installing Fedora Core Linux on my laptop. You know how every few years you just have to do a clean install because everything just starts to slow down. Well, I decided that perhaps it's time to investigate options other than Windows. A Mac would be sweet, but school requires Internet Explorer and Macs are just too expensive. We'll see how this goes. So far it's installed, but I'm updating and having to hit "Yes" every 2 seconds because something's not signed. Arg.