operating systems

I've been using Linux as my main development environment for a couple of months new (full details over here). The transition has been pretty easy on the whole, but I've been struggling with one of the most basic tasks - copying and pasting.

For historical reasons, Linux has two ways of copying and pasting:

An interesting problem for today. I was trying to fix a fairly trivial bug in one of our websites, but when I try to load a page from my webserver I get a Drupal error:

OK, this one was entirely my own fault, but it's a useful cautionary tale to anyone running any version of Ubuntu.

For my sins, I am currently using Windows Vista as the OS on my main PC, and am using the build-in mail client, Windows Mail, basically a rebranded Outlook Express. It's pretty basic, but I don't need much from my email client. However, today I found a need to view the HTML source of HTML emails.

I have a rather old laptop which is set up to dual boot between Windows XP and Linux (Red Hat 9) using GRUB. Unfortunately this machine now needs to be fully dedicated to Windows (it only has a 10GB disk, and we have 8GB of data to be cleansed using a Windows app), so I've had to remove Linux. This proved slightly trickier than I suspected, mainly because of my own rashness.

The laptop was configured with four partitions:
1. the main Windows partition (XP was installed before Red Hat)
2. a Linux boot partition
3. a Linux OS partition