The Little Things

A bit of an update...

I gave the copy of DBAN to my partner, who gratefully accepted it.  After I explained what it was three times.  And then he nearly ran in horror when I handed him a copy of PhatSlacko...  "OH, I'll NEVER touch that..." 

Yeah.  Don't give us reactors, just give us bombs...

Actually, there's a reason he was happy with the DBAN.  Seems that, over the weekend, his computer got hit with the "FBI Virus" ransomware crap.  Guess it scared the wits out of him at first, but he rapidly figured it out.  However, his computer is pretty well scrambled, to the point of being unusable.  Luckily, he has his system restore disks at home, and is going to just do a wipe and clean reinstall.

Which lead to a bit of soul searching, and a reconsideration of an older system he has available at home as well.  Since he's long since lost the backups for that systems (which, apparently, went down to a malware infestation ages ago), he's now thinking maybe he'll try this Linux stuff on the older computer...

Which lead me to reconsider.  I don't think I'm going to give him PhatSlacko.  Instead, I think I'll give him Zorin, which might be a bit easier for a Windows user to transition over to.  Unfortunately, I don't have a DVD-R with me.  All I have is the CD-RW I burned Phat to.  So, I'm now thinking Zorin Lite.  Something quick to get him up and running.  I can grab an .ISO, and reburn the CD-RW.  That should work...

So, one thing solved.  On to the next.

I was running my USB Puppy installs on the T61 all weekend.  Well,  I get back out on the road, and go to boot Phat here...  The speaker controls have been turned off!  I'm not sure how that happened, but it was a (very) minor annoyance to have to turn them on again.  I'm not sure why the software-based speaker control would change from computer to computer, but...  Oh well...

Oh, and I'm finally getting round to setting up storage files outside of my "personal storage" in all my Puppies.  Finally...

I'll mark that up to personal lethargy...

I think I'll do the .ISO work in Bodhi.  Just for the hell of it...