First test: fail. it left the "temporary" post on the page.
Bad windows live, and here I went and gave you a chance after the Linux blogging tools failed me.
Bah, and here I thought I might actually get a case of OS-envy. Nope, not this time.
In Vista, normal users are not allowed to save the hosts file, so the easiest way to edit it is to run notepad as an administrator.
If you get an error about it being read only:
It continually surprises and impresses me, in a good way. As a little background: I’ve used Linux at a moderate to advanced level for a few years now: I’ve never written a bash script longer than 6 lines and never hacked the kernel, but I’m not afraid of the command line and have no problems editing my xorg.conf, grub.conf or any other system files using nano. The command line is my friend, but I still like a GUI admin panel sometimes. I’ve totally switched to Linux as evidenced by the fact that the last copy of Microsoft office I purchased or used on my own computers was 2000.
Anyway, I recently bought a new laptop and I set it up as a dual-boot system with Vista and Ubuntu (I originally had a triple boot system with Open Suse until I remembered how clunky RPM based Distros are and I have a whole post full of “observations” about Vista, but this is all neither here nor there.) I was testing the battery life, ran it down, plugged it back into the power cord, and, for some unknown reason, I right clicked the battery life indicator.
Winux? No, React OS.
ReactOS is a free and open-sourced operating system based on the Windows architecture, providing support for existing applications and drivers, and an alternative to the current dominant consumer operating system. ReactOS is a replacement for Windows users.
The raison-d’etre of ReactOS is the simple fact that some people, or especially companies, will -never- switch to Linux. No matter how much Linux gets better, or is better, it is not an option for them…With ReactOS, all those worries vanish. -reactos.org
Focus at present is on developing ReactOS to a stage where it is capable of running most Windows drivers and applications “out of the box . Once the compatibility level has been reached, we may even choose to improve ReactOS beyond its Windows roots. -reactos.org
As you can see it has a distinctly Windows 98 look about it while retaining a sprinkling of the display features that makes Linux superior.