> This lead me to wonder what we in the Ubuntu - Uk Team might describe as
> things which in hindsight we have taken for granted but have proved a
> positive boon for productivity.
>
A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago, taking the graphics card, motherboard and power supply with it. After rooting around in my box of spare bits I managed to find an old motherboard, graphics card and network card that were still working.
I put it all together, turned the PC on, and it booted into Ubuntu straight away - with everything working. This is with a different chipset (Via not SiS) and graphics card (ATI not NVidia).
I've got an XP partition too. I haven't tried booting it again yet, but on past experience:
- it probably won't boot
- I'll have to start it in safe mode
- Then I'll have to download the drivers for all the new bits. Hopefully I'll have network access!
- Then I'll have to install all the drivers, rebooting several times
- Then Windows will demand to be reactivated because too much hardware has changed. It may or may not decide to let me keep using it!
So, there you go - a definite success story!
Olly
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