Favorite Linux Distro

So here are the results of the poll.

2 - Fedora
2 - Other
1 - RedHat
1 - Ubuntu

No one seemed to like either version of SUSE.

Obviously we don't get enough traffic here to properly assess the use of Linux distros, but there is a site that is a better representation of the popularity of the various distros available today.

DistroWatch

Check it out, not only does it give the current popularity, but it will give you updates, and basic information about each distro being tracked.

Favorite Distro

Vote on your favorite Linux distro by scrolling down to the poll on the right hand side of the page. Results will be posted next week.

Anti-virus software

By now you are hopefully aware that there are all kinds of different virus, worms, bots, etc... with the sole purpose of hijacking your computer. Hopefully, you are running some sort of virus protection on your computer since there are a few good ones out there available for free.

However, if you still haven't installed anti-virus software because you think it will slow down your computer, you don't believe you need it, or for whatever reason you can't install it, your still in luck. There are online scanners available that allow you to scan your computer through the use of a browser plugin. Two such companies that offer this service are:

Trend Micro
and
McAfee (follow the FreeScan link to run this one)

So if you are running Windows with no anti-virus check out one of the following sites to make sure that your machine is running virus free.

XP Performance

Lately I have been seeing a lot of ads on t.v. to speed up your computer. For a fee these companies can run a scan of your computer and do some voodoo to make your computer faster.

Instead of paying a fee, try doing a few simple tasks already built into XP that can help extend the life and improve the performance of that XP install.

Here is a link to some steps you can take.

Microsoft XP Maintenance

Audacity

I was going through some of my old things last night and ran across a bunch of old cassette tapes that I have. Poking around I realized that I had a lot of old music that I like and am limited to one tape deck, which was disconnected, to play it on.

Thinking I may have just found a new and interesting project, I decided to connect my tape deck to my PC and look for some software to record with. As usual, off to sourceforge I went and it was there that I found Audacity.

Audacity was easy to install, easy to configure, and easy to use. Without really having to know anything about editing audio I was able to record my music from the line in on the sound card, easily remove the dead air from the beginning and end of the songs, and easily export my recorded song to multiple formats.

I see no reason to try any other software package as Audacity does what I want to do. Let's just hope this project stays interesting long enough for me to get through all those old songs so I don't have to keep this tape deck on my desk to enjoy my music.