Goodbye to Ubuntu, Hope to See You Again

For the record I like nearly everything Ubuntu does as an OS. The install was painless, updates worked well and it was fast. Stuff generally worked well...except for one glaring and unforgiveable failure...the wireless driver. My Vaio uses the Intel 4965AGN which for some reason just won't play nice with Ubuntu. The result was highly throttled bandwidth, completely intolerable.

Sorry Linux folks, I am NOT going to go through the monkey motion required to try out the other wireless drivers that may or may not work if I manage to get all of the dot commands right. Not for me.

So Ubuntu got tossed, Windows 7 is in (but I am waiting Ubuntu community...and watching)

Windows 7 RC Rockin the Dual Boot

Just got Windows 7 RC instaled on my Sony Vaio VGN-CR320E. I always regretted not jumping on the first beta chance so I figured I'd get on the Windows 7 train right away the first time. Plus I had been looking for a reason to re-purpose that partition with Ubuntu installed from my last dual boot experiment(a subject for another post).

And there was the issue. One of those tiny nagging whispering in your ear issues. You know, the thing that you think about when your finger is a fraction of an inch above the "your going to screw things up button". One word...GRUB. Oh sure Vista makes repartitioning very easy so I just blew away the Ubuntu volumes and moved on...not so fast Sparky. GRUB still owns your master boot record...suddenly that nagging issue switched to shouting to get my attention. A quick Google led me to the prescribed method for reclaiming my MBR from GRUB and all was good.

Once that monkey motion was complete Windows 7 installed without a hitch, wireless hooked up (using full bandwidth...are you listening Ubuntu?...again...that's another post) and here I am posting using a box stock Windows 7 install.