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.