Welcome to the third part in my Things to check before switching to Vista series. The last two articles dealt with possible hardware and software incompatibilities and ways to check whether your hard- and software would run in Windows Vista. It is imminent to check this before you make the switch. Just imagine that you make the switch and a program that you run on a daily basis will not install or run properly.

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Today i’m trying out SuperKaramba.
SuperKaramba is also a widget tool for Linux, but it seems to have a larger user base behind it then gDesklets.
gDesklets is Gnome based, but SuperKaramba is KDE based.
You can still use SuperKaramba on a Gnome interface, but not everything will work.

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For Windows there are different tools to have widgets on your desktop. There are for example Yahoo! Widgets, or Samurize
For Linux there is also a tool available to do this, and it’s called gDesklets.

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I don’t know why Sony is so obsessed with Linux, it just does not feel right but I really can’t find a good motive for the support - yet. Some guy apparently installed Linux Fedora Core on his Playstation 3 and dumped everything that he could get his hands on. He was able to dump a complete game disc to his external usb hard drive that he connected to the PS3.

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In these times where computer crimes have become one of the most normal things it’s nice that you can protect yourself.
Like Martin, i think that firewalls don’t help that much (i have never encountered one that worked good enough)
And when i found X-NetStat i found a really good solution to this problem.

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