Escape from boredom

Currently my Lenovo T60 is reeeeaaaaly slow, my old Windows XP installation is slow due to way to many services running, a huge amount of software which I needed before, but no longer, installed and so on. To get the startup time down from about ten minutes to at least three I must do something drastically. And that includes running Linux and not XP anymore. But I have some challenges, I do have some software that I’m not sure how to run on Linux, this being:

• Polar software for my Polar 725X. Currently no easy option for this, check out http://forum.polar.fi/showthread.php?t=76
• Music Collector, only Windows available. And since the database is a proprietary format it is not easy to export and import the content in a similar software running on Linux. I guess I can use the option of exporting it all to XML and then try to import it, but some valuable information will get lost I’m sure. Anyway, Music Collector should not be that hard to run using Wine compared to Polar, since it does not need any IR.
• Canon software for my Canon FS11. Think this would be the easiest to get around, but still – I do not know how yet.

All other software I’m using on Windows will have competitive Linux-software, so apart from the above mentioned challenges I’m better off with Linux.

But, there is always a but. Tried Ubuntu before, but got into trouble with the wireless card on my T60. Hopefully this is not a problem anymore thanks to the Intel Wireless Wifi Link-project. The driver is supported in mainline kernel so this should be no problem anymore.

If you have any input to me on my issues, plz contact me 🙂

I am now allowed to call myself “IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0” after completing the test “Test 000-377 – IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0, Core Administration” Required passing score 58%, my score 100% – I sure know how to prepare myself 🙂