Right then…..I tried to recover the data on my Suse Drive but alas to no vail. I bought a new drive and installed Linspire on it. It is a really nice Distro and their CNR application installation centre is second to none. But some things wouldn't work, PHP for one. I have thousands of photos and like to keep them organised and to edit them every now and again. LPhoto was just not up to the job, it crashed any time you tried to import more than 500 photos. I also have tons of songs and LSongs couldn't cope witht the number I had. Juk wouldn't install either. It also took an absolute age to boot up. So after having spent $50 on a years CNR subscription I ditched it. I formatted the Suse Disk I couldn't use any more and installed XP on both Disks (200 GB in total). I will install Suse 9.1 on my old XP box and use it strictly as a server as, as far as I am concerned, Any Linux Distro i have tried is just not ready for the desktop. The apps are good but they didn't cut it. The Dev apps are a different story though KDevelop and the likes.

I am now quite happy with mu decision of going back to XP. Everything is working well and I have SP2 installed and AVG installed too so I feel quite secure. Firefox 1 Preview Release is also out so I'm loving that, too (I know it's out on the other platforms too).

So after a hellish week of installas and re-installs and drive formatting and backups galore, I am ready for a week without computers….. No chance.. back to work tomorrow. I found FoxyTunes Extension for Firefox…. excellent, It ties in with loads of media players including iTunes so you can control your music from your Firefox status bar…:)