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Windows (Sucks)

So - my windows XP crashed again. its been good up until the last couple months - now it's toast again. I don't know why - I rebooted my computer after adding a cd-rom and it said I had disk errors. I didn't do anything with the disk - just installed a cd NEAR the disk anyways, it saved the bad blocks, and did restart but I couldn't do anything - I couldn't get into outlook, or any office app for that matter, nor could I add or remove programs. So I made a decision which I'm going to stick to - I stuck a smaller drive into my computer and installed Fedora Linux. I'm going to dump windows altogether and jump into Linux. I've been threatening to do this for some time, but I thought now the timing is right. I'm going to use WINE to get access to my windows Apps, mostly so I can open outlook and export most of my PST settings to my Gmail account. Then I will wean myself off the windows apps as I find comparable linux apps. eventually I will reformat...

Technology - the final frontier?

I found a cool app the other day - actually about 2 months ago - it's called Blinkx and with it you can search your local computer and the web simultaneoulsy. Further, it "watches" pages you are on - either web pages, or word docs or pdfs (to name just a few) and can actually search for you and find matching content. It's a pretty sweet (and free) app that I recommend downloading.