A couple of things:
The laptop has been rotting away at home; the most recent thing I did to it was to increase the countdown time before the default OS was booted up. What I did was to login to Debian as root, navigate to the folder where GRUB was installed (/boot/grub), and open various interesting looking files until I got something that looked like a config file, and simply edited the value of the startup time. Um. I shall write something more specific in the near future, shall I?
Update:
While logged in as root, the config file I edited was:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
which was the default configuration file in grub. I scrolled to something that looked like this:
# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 30
Then I just changed the number.
In other news, I have also discovered Cygwin, which is (according to their website) a linux-like environment for Windows. It’s really cool as an introduction to UNIX-based systems, and it’d be great to see how working in a UNIX-based environment is like, for those thinking of making the switch. I found a series of interesting articles on Lifehacker: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3; they’re nice, gentle introductions to what Cygwin can do.
Actually I haven’t been putting Cygwin to much use. All I’ve done is just to play around with the calculator, upload some files, and play tetris. The documentation is rather incomprehensible to me (or rather I haven’t been making the effort to understand it). So. Conclusion: Maybe one would need to be less of a noob to fully utilize Cygwin.
