I must admit Windows 7 runs beautifully on my EeePC 900A netbook. Without doing any real performance benchmarks, I can at least say it *feels* much faster than linux. (The only other OS I've used on it.)

I started with a somewhat low powered netbook, the EeePC 900A linux edition. This EeePC came with a mere 4gb SSD disk drive and 1 gb ram. Microsoft gave me a promotional copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, so I figured I would get it to work on this EeePC and report how I got it to work.

Q: How do I get free internet where I should have none?
A: Use tcp-over-dns tunnelling software.

We'll show you how.

How it works

DNS stands for "Domain Name System". The purpose of DNS is convert a domain name, such as "analogbit.com" to an ip address, such as "208.113.168.166". The interesting thing about DNS queries is that they are usually recursive queries. This means that if a server doesn't know the answer for a domain name, it is allowed to ask other servers for the answer. So while a firewall or restrictive ISP may filter regular internet traffic they probably overlooked DNS traffic.

Block diagram close-upJkDefrag (open source defrag for windows) shows the sector map on the left after installing Microsoft Windows Vista 64 and copying a few gigs of files to the drive using ntfs-3g. Is this Vista's fault or ntfs-3g?

If you don't know, ntfs-3g lets you mount a ntfs partition read-write from within linux (via fuse).