Windows Vista Sound

Why do I see it mentioned nowhere that the Windows Vista sound to ask for Administrator approval is actually a sound from Star Trek TNG to memo or call an officer on Enterprise?? Apparently there's some trekkie in Windows group who thought this would be cool. But unfortunately when Vista asks for Admin approval it dims the whole damn screen and really pisses everyone off - I think it might actually be the most annoying feature of Windows Vista. Sad how they can take a good thing and make it bad...

openSUSE is pretty good

Here I was trying to look up how to best format a new partition so that I can share data between Linux and Windows, when I look up the /windows folder and there it is! The whole Windows partition mounted and ready to be navigated! That's progress! In retrospect I remember seeing some mention of creating a mount-point named 'windows' when I was installing from the CD but who pays that much attention.. :D

I still had to mess around to get the Wireless connection working though.  I have a broadcom modem and SUSE had to download some files from repositories online. It was a vicious circle - I had to go online to go online! So:
- I looked up the script
- found out what files were needed to install the broadcom firmware
- downloaded them manually in Windows
- copied it to a USB flash drive
- copied from the flash drive to Linux partition (after rebooting of course)
- and then made the script point to these files instead of the URL.

Phew! That worked though. It had, of course, to be followed by the usual:

ifconfig wlan0 up
/etc/init.d/network restart