I seemed to have hit the wall with the Linux distros I have laying around the house, so I decided to try the WinXP recovery that came with my 'new' laptop's hard drive. I was almost immediately hit with the sasser worm which causes a reboot about every half hour. I am now reinstalling and hoping the restore partition is not infected.

It would be nice to have a copy of XP laying around for testing my Websites in IE7. I do find XP to be rather nagging with the popups about every little thing. It may just annoy me enough that I will use Linux full time once I get a distro I can use.

SuSe very nearly made the cut. It does not recognise my internal wireless, but then neither does XP. I could do a firmware update, then install the drivers which also performs a firmware update and after that Windows should work fine. Hard to commit to that when I have a working PCMIA card to use. So far Ubuntu does recognize the internal wireless and that gives me hope.

Speaking of wireless, I am sure the lady at the library is weary of me dragging this thing in there every Monday and then failing to connect. I will take the day off tomorrow and surely in another week I will have my act together. A library is just such a hostile environment for futile troubleshooting.

It is possible a friend will come through with install CDs for either Kubuntu or Mandriva this Thursday.