Windows Vista v Linux

I am dictating this blog posting using windows speech recognition. I have just installed windows vista on my computer. Windows Vista is working fine but it has some annoying features. The security is slightly overdone for example every time you wish to open an Exe file it opens up a full screen window where you have to click a button to accept the opening. Another example is the installation of drivers I have a network printer which connects over the Wireless network, I had to install a combination of four drivers and then I had to use some computer wizardry to detect the printer. I am now trying to start a new project. My sister’s laptop only has a 40 GB hard drive, I am trying to put up some Network Storage box I failed to do it with the apple G3. My next door neighbours, the Mays, have given me an old Compaq Computer. I was planning to run windows home server on it but the specifications were not high enough. I am now trying various Linux solutions but I am having some difficulty. So far I have tried Ubuntu server edition and freeNAS. Ubuntu server edition worked but was far too complicated and freeNAS had mounting problems. Well I think I’d better finish the article here. When background noise was minimal speech recognition had no problem but there was a lot of background noise for most of the writing making this article a long and drawn out process. Certainly a fun feature but perhaps not the most efficient. Enjoy the holidays and good luck with revision.

Embeded banners badges

I've gone slightly over the top on placing badges on the blog and now have quite a few. I think it is still quite reasonable but I know some people hate it. Can I please have some feedback and feel free to recommend new badges as well as telling me to remove them. Many thanks!

Exam results

After Farhan posted his results on his blog here are mine:

Maths	91%	A*
Physics	78%	A*
Music	80%	A*
Geography	82%	A*
Biology	89%	A*
Italian	90%	A*
Latin	86%	A*
Chemistry	79%	A*
English	82%	A

Italian Exchange

I have just been told by my Dad that I am getting two Italian exchanges!? To explain, I went to Italy over the Autumn half term and stayed with my Italian exchange called Sofia however there are more Italians than English people so coming over this way there is an issue of who they will stay with. Now one of the extras is a friend of my exchange and my Dad said it would be okay to have her. I don't know how I'm going to cope. Here is the countdown: