Today I’ve had a complete ‘computer day’, buying a wireless router yesterday was continued by the purchase of a switch for using two computer with one monitor, mouse and keyboard, and I also got a graphics card (my first GeForce - I always used ATI before). Since all this took time to make work, and I still can’t get the TV connection to work on the graphics card, I decided to install Ubuntu Linux on another computer while waiting for all those reboots for the first computer…

So far so good - Ubuntu is up and running, and all media files and plugins seem to either work right away or have a codec automatically downloaded after asking if I want to download it and of course also asking if I really really want to download it. For example getting the codecs for my old video files only took a minute, even though I had created them with unusual codecs (a few years back while studying I made movies for presentations etc).

The router was no problem to install, as long as I stayed away from the manual, which had suggested that I had to install something before I plug the router in - but the software on the CD was for another piece of hardware, so in the end I just plugged everything in, turned the devices on and had instant contact. Of course, there was still some configurations to be done for security, but that’s another story…

The graphics  card was a pain in windows, and then a pain in Linux as expected. Never having tried the Nvidia interface before didn’t make it easier, but at the end it all looked much nicer than with the old crashed graphics card - even though I still didn’t manage to get the image on the tv…

Finally the switch was left to install, but now it’s getting late so I’ll watch a movie before bedtime and continue tweaking and installing tomorrow - and perhaps also make a note here about configuring wireless networks..