Older systems don’t often like new operating systems, but there are exceptions. My experience with my Dell M60 was less than glamorous, but I was finally able to get Windows 7 installed.

My installation was bumpy because there’s an issue with Microsoft installation/upgrade process. And while I do like hording information sometimes, this time I decided to share because there wasn’t enough information out there that was direct enough.

If there’s an error during installation, Microsoft Windows doesn’t recover well; to be specific it has a bug, it’s totally lacking in intelligence and it’s not possible right now to get out of it.

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I’ve had Ubuntu loaded on my Dell M60 laptop [several years old] for an almost 2 months now and I’ve had absolutely no issues of virus attacks. This begs the question, ‘Do I need anti-virus for Ubuntu?’

While Ubuntu/Linux virus attacks are virtually unheard of, based on some forums and documentation virus attacks are theoretically possible.

And this is making me wonder if I need to use anti-virus at all…

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I found VirtualBox back in March and it’s been just awesome. Version 3.0.10 has been released; I was notified via the automatic updater [yea! I love those things].

If your an IT Administrator/Consultant or just a ‘Curious Jobe’, your going to find yourself loving virtual box. It’s like playing the house with firecrackers, but the house is made of [well] everything fireproof.

I mean seriously, who likes living not knowing how everything works and what it takes to get to this, or that point- not me.

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I loaded the latest version of Ubuntu the other day to my DELL M60 laptop; it’s about 5 years old and it was really struggling with life as a laptop with Windows. I had issues with power, issues with hibernation and issues with staying connected with my wireless router.

I was incurring all these problems and I figured, what the hell, what do I’ve to lose? If I screw it completely up, I’ll just reload Windows and go back to shoveling muck around; just like I was doing before.

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