okay, then, vista stuff

By basd on Sep 26, 2009 | In vista

I used to have an "i hate vista" category, which I got rid of when I completed my conversion to linux. There wasn't much point to posting about all the stuff I hated about Vista when I didn't ever use Vista anymore.

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But as noted here recently, I have a new netbook and I am using Vista on it (successfully???), at least until I have Linux fully set up.

Which will be awhile, as the drivers are not yet ready for the wireless card in the regular OpenSuse 11.1 install, at least as far as I can make out. (Though fortunately, I have a USB wireless dongle that will run just fine once the zd...[forgot] firmware is added to the install from YAST.

Now I am working on setting up the tethered blackberry connection, which requires me to go read my own FAQs and fix whatever it is that is not working. [And, BTW, I have yet to get the bluetooth connection working to my Blackberry Tour on even my main computer -- but I didn't consider it particularly necessary as "Barry" was working so well.)

But then again, if one wants to minimize the wires and other connections that must be messed around with, especially if one also has a stack of files and other items to manage, then connecting via bluetooth with the Tour holstered is a pretty convenient process.

Which brings us back to Vista. So, right now I am using Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and an RDP connection to my office desktop. I slapped in my bluetooth dongle -- no idea what I did with the install software -- and pretty shortly was able to connect and make a dialup connection to the internet via the Blackberry Tour.

One more bit of convenience for insta-getaway netbook notetaking. Yay! and Double-Yay!

I'll throw in this P.S. -- oddly, when I cut and paste from OpenOffice writer to the Outlook on my office desktop, Outlook formats the paragraphs as "auto" line spacing, which throws in an additional linespace at the end of each paragraph, creating very broad paragraph breaks.

It's always something. This does not happen, BTW, when I cut and paste from OpenOffice IN LINUX to he Outlook via the RDP connection. Weird, huh?

So, the best solution I have come up with is to highlight then entire Outlook message I have created and check the box to not add space between paragraphs.

Why cut and paste at all? Well, the sometimes there is a fair amount of lag in my RDP connection (and sometimes in the server taffic), so it's better to type the message locally.

And that's the nooz...